Project Integration Management Flashcards
Project Charter
A document issued by the project initiator or sponsor that formally authorizes the existence of a project and provides the project manager with the authority to apply organizational resources to project activities.
Officially sanctions the project.
Gives PM authority to do the project work and assign work; authority to spend money and use company resources
Develop Project Charter Process - Inputs
- Agreements
- Business Documents
- Organizational Process Assets
- Enterprise Environmental Factors
Enterprise Environmental Factors (EEFs)
Tell you about how your company does business; Provides information about your company that will be helpful to you when planning the project; includes operation information, market conditions, company’s culture, people at the company
Organizational Process Assets (OPAs)
Tell you about how your company normally runs a project; Every company has standards for how to run its projects; guidelines and instructions, procedures, categories for things that need to be tracked, templates for documents to create.
Lessons learned: valuable historical information about projects
Sponsor
the person or people responsible for paying for the project and is part of all important project decisions
Develop Project Charter Process
First process performed in a project
Data Gathering Techniques
are ways to get all of your stakeholders on the same page about your project goals and your approach to meeting them (i.e. brainstorming session)
Business Case
Explains why the company should do the project; an input to building the project charter
Develop Project Management Plan Process
organize all of the information about your project into one place, so everyone knows exactly what needs to happen when they do the project work
Develop Project Management Plan Process - Inputs
- Project Charter
- Organizational Process Assets
- Outputs of planning processes
- Enterprise Environmental Factors
Develop Project Charter Process - Tools & Techniques
- Expert Judgement
- Data Gathering
- Interpersonal & Team Skills
- Meetings
Develop Project Charter Process - Outputs
- Project Charter
2. Assumption Log
Develop Project Management Plan Process - Tools and Techniques
- Expert Judgement
- Data Gathering
- Interpersonal & Team Skills
- Meetings
Develop Project Management Plan Process - Outputs
- Project Management Plan (collection of subsidiary plans from Scope Management, Schedule Management, Cost Management, Quality Management, Resource Management, Communications Management, Risk Management, Procurement Management and Stakeholder Management)
Direct and Manage Project Work Process
follow the project management plan to execute the work and manage any problems that come up
Direct and Manage Project Work - Inputs
- Project Management Plan
- Project Documents
- Enterprise Environmental Factors
- Organizational Process Assets
- Approved Change Requests
Direct and Manage Project Work - Tools and Techniques
- Expert Judgement
- Meetings
- Project Management Information System
Direct and Manage Project Work - Outputs
- Work Performance Data
- Deliverables
- Updates to project documents, plan updates, and OPA updates
- Issue Log
- Change Requests
Manage Project Knowledge Process
about using the information your company has already learned from doing past projects and creating new information when your team learns something your company hasn’t encountered before
Manage Project Knowledge Process - Inputs
- Project Management Plan
- Project Documents
- Enterprise Environmental Factors
- Organizational Process Assets
- Deliverables
Manage Project Knowledge Process - Tools and Techniques
- Expert Judgement
- Interpersonal and Team Skills
- Information Management
- Knowledge Management
Manage Project Knowledge Process - Outputs
- Lessons Learned Register
- OPA Updates
- Project Management Plan updates
Monitoring and Controlling Project Work Process - Inputs
- Project Management Plan
- Project Documents
- Work Performance Information
- Agreements
- Common EEFs
- OPAs
Monitoring and Controlling Project Work Process - Tools and Techniques
- Expert Judgement
- Data Analysis
- Decision Making
- Meetings
