Project Integration Management Flashcards

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What is Project Integration Management?

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Includes the processes and activities to identify, define, combine, unify and coordinate the various processes and management activities within the project management process groups

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What is ITTO?

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Inputs, tools, techniques and outputs

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Who is responsible for project integration?

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Project Manager

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What are the 7 project integration management processes?

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  1. Develop Project Charter
  2. Develop project management plan
  3. Direct and manage project work
  4. Manage project knowledge
  5. Monitor and control project work
  6. Perform integrated change control
  7. Close project or Phase
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What are the 5 process groups?

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  1. Initiate
  2. Planning
  3. Execute
  4. Monitor and control
  5. Close
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What is a Change Control System?

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A set of procedures that describes how modifications to the project deliverables and documentation are managed and controlled.

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7
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What is the link between the project and strategic objective?

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Project Charter

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What is the project charter?

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A document issued by the project initiator or sponsor the formally authorizes the existence of a project and provides the project manager with the authority to apply organizational resources to project activities.

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What is the purpose of the project charter?

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Translates contract into business language

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What are the three key components to the Project Charter?

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  1. Sponsor
  2. Project Manager
  3. Linkage to Business Goals
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What are the inputs to the project charter?

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  1. Business Documents
  2. Agreements
  3. EEF’s
  4. OPA’s
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What are the tools and techniques for developing the project charter?

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  1. Expert judgement
  2. Data gathering
  3. Interpersonal and team skills
  4. Meetings
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What are the outputs of the project charter?

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  1. Project Charter

2. Assumptions log

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Who issues the project charter?

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Project Initiator or Sponsor

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In what document is the project manager assigned?

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Project Charter

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What is the project management plan?

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The process of defining, preparing and coordinating all plan components and consolidating them into an integrated project management plan.

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What is Progress Elaboration?

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The iterative process of increasing the level of detail in a project management plan as greater amounts of information and more accurate estimates become available.

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What is Baseline?

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The approved version of a work product that can only be changed through formal change control procedures and is used as a basis for comparison to actual results.

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What is the Configuration Management Plan?

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Describes project items that are under configuration control.

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What are the inputs to the Project Management Plan?

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  1. Project Charter
  2. Outputs from other processes
  3. EEF’s
  4. OPA’s
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What are the Project Management Plan tools and techniques?

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  1. Expert Judgement
  2. Data Gathering
  3. Interpersonal Skills
  4. Running Meetings
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What are the outputs of the Project Management Plan?

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Project Management Plan

(Many subsidiary plans and baselines are included in the project management plan. Pg 87)

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What is Direct and Manage Work?

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The process of leading and performing the work defined in the project management plan and implementing approved changes to achieve the project’s objectives.

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What are the inputs to Direct and Manage Work?

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  1. Project Management Plan
  2. Project Documents
  3. Approved Change Requests
  4. EEF’s
  5. OPA’s
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What are tools and techniques for Direct and Manage Work?

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  1. Expert Judgement
  2. Project management information systems
  3. Meetings
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What are outputs from Direct and Manage work?

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  1. Deliverables
  2. Work Performance Data
  3. Issue Log
  4. Change Requests
  5. Project Management Plan Updates
  6. Project Documents Updates
  7. OPA’s Updates
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What is a Deliverable?

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Any unique and verifiable product, result or capability to perform a service that is required to be produced to complete a process, phase or project.

28
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What is Tacit Knowledge?

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Personal Knowledge that can be difficult to articulate and share such as beliefs, experience and insights. (Riding a bike)

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What is explicit knowledge?

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Knowledge that can be codified using symbols such as words, numbers or pictures.

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What are the Manage Project Knowledge Inputs?

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  1. Project Management Plan
  2. Project Documents
  3. Deliverables
  4. EEF’s
  5. OPA’s
    pg 100
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What are Project Management Plan tools and techniques?

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  1. Expert Judgement
  2. Knowledge Management
  3. Information Management
  4. Interpersonal and Team Skills
32
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What are Project Management Plan outputs?

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  1. Lessons learned Register
  2. Project management plan updates
  3. OPA Updates
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What is the main concept of Monitor and Control Project Work?

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Review, report and track progress

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What is the definition of Monitor?

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Collect project performance data produce performance measures, and report and disseminate performance information

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What is the definition of Control?

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Comparing actual performance with planned performance, analyzing variances, assessing trends to effect process improvements, evaluating possible alternatives and recommending appropriate corrective action as needed.

36
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Monitoring is about…

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observing

37
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Control is about…

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Recommending action

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What are the Inputs to Monitor and Control Project Work?

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  1. Project management plan
  2. Project Documents
  3. Work Performance Information
  4. Agreements
  5. EEF’s
  6. OPA’s
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What are the tools and techniques of Monitor and Control Project Work?

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  1. Expert Judgement
  2. Data Analysis
  3. Decision Making
  4. Meetings
40
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What is Trend Analysis?

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An analytical technique that uses mathematical models to forecast future outcomes based on historical results.

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What are the outputs for Monitor and Control Project Work?

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  1. Work Performance Reports
  2. Change Requests
  3. Project Management Plan Updates
  4. Project Document Updates
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What are 3 types of Work Performance Reports?

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  1. Request a decision
  2. Notify an action
  3. Create awareness
43
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What are 3 Types of Change Requests?

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  1. Corrective Action
  2. Preventive Action
  3. Defect Repair
44
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What is the only process to product Work Performance Reports?

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Monitor and Control Project Work

45
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What is the definition of Change Control

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A process whereby modifications to documents, deliverables or baselines associated with the project are identified, documented, approved or rejected

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What is a Change Control System?

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A set of procedures that describes how modifications to the project deliverables and documentation are managed and controlled.

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What are the 4 major components of the Change Control System?

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  1. Change Management Plan
  2. Configuration Management Plan
  3. Change Requests
  4. Change Control Board (CCB)
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What is a Change Management Plan?

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A component of the project management plan that establishes the change control board, documents the extent of its authority and describes how the change control system will be implemented

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What is the configuration management plan?

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A component of the project management plan that describes how to identify and account for project artifacts under configuration control, and how to record and report changes to them.