Project Management

Project Management

1. Develop Project Charter - Document that authorizes the existence of a project

   • Inputs - Business documents, agreements, enterprise environmental factors and organizational process assets
   • Tools and Techniques - Expert judgment, Data gathering, Interpersonal & team skills and Meetings
   • Outputs - Project charter and Assumption log

2. Plan for project management - coordinating all plan components and consolidating them into an integrated project management plan

   • Inputs - .1 Project charter .2 Outputs from other processes .3 Enterprise environmental factors .4 Organizational process assets
   • Inputs Tools & Techniques Outputs - .1 Expert judgment .2 Data gathering .3 Interpersonal and team skills .4 Meetings
   • Outputs - .1 Project management plan

3. Create the EDT - the process of subdividing project deliverables and project work into smaller, more manageable components

   • Inputs - .1 Project management plan .2 Project documents .3 Enterprise environmental factors .4 Organizational process assets
   • Tools & Techniques - .1 Expert judgment .2 Decomposition
   • Outputs - .1 Scope baseline .2 Project documents updates

4. Sequence the activities - the process of identifying and documenting relationships among the project activities

   • Inputs - .1 Project management plan .2 Project documents .3 Enterprise environmental factors .4 Organizational process assets
     • Tools & Techniques - .1 Precedence diagramming method .2 Dependency determination and integration .3 Leads and lags .4 Project management information system
       • Outputs - .1 Project schedule network diagrams .2 Project documents updates

5. Develop the schedule - process of analyzing activity sequences, durations, resource requirements, and schedule

   • Inputs - .1 Project management plan .2 Project documents .3 Agreements .4 Enterprise environmental factors .5 Organizational process assets
   • Tools & Techniques - .1 Schedule network analysis .2 Critical path method .3 Resource optimization .4 Data analysis .5 Leads and lags .6 Schedule compression .7 Project management information system .8 Agile release planning
   • Outputs - .1 Schedule baseline .2 Project schedule .3 Schedule data .4 Project calendars .5 Change requests .6 Project management plan updates .7 Project documents updates

6. Budgeting - the process of aggregating the estimated costs of individual activities or work packages to establish an authorized cost baseline

   • Inputs - .1 Project management plan .2 Project documents .3 Business documents .4 Agreements .5 Enterprise environmental factors .6 Organizational process assets
   • Tools & Techniques - .1 Expert judgment .2 Cost aggregation .3 Data analysis .4 Historical information review .5 Funding limit reconciliation .6 Financing
   • Outputs - .1 Cost baseline .2 Project funding requirements .3 Project documents updates

7. Quality indicators - the process of identifying quality requirements and documenting how the project will demonstrate compliance with quality requirements and/or standards

   • Inputs - .1 Project charter .2 Project management plan .3 Project documents .4 Enterprise environmental factors .5 Organizational process assets
   • Tools & Techniques - .1 Expert judgment .2 Data gathering .3 Data analysis .4 Decision making .5 Data representation .6 Test and inspection planning .7 Meetings
   • Outputs - .1 Quality management plan .2 Quality metrics .3 Project management plan updates .4 Project documents updates

8. Resources for a project - the process of defining how to estimate, acquire, manage, and use team and physical resources

   • Inputs - .1 Project charter .2 Project management plan .3 Project documents .4 Enterprise environmental factors .5 Organizational process assets
   • Tools & Techniques - .1 Expert judgment .2 Data representation .3 Organizational theory .4 Meetings
   • Outputs - .1 Resource management plan .2 Team charter .3 Project documents updates

9. Communication plan - the process of developing an appropriate approach and plan for project communications activities based on the information needs of each group

   • Inputs - .1 Project charter .2 Project management plan .3 Project documents .4 Enterprise environmental factors .5 Organizational process assets
   • Tools & Techniques - .1 Expert judgment .2 Communication requirements analysis .3 Communication technology .4 Communication models .5 Communication methods .6 Interpersonal and team skills .7 Data representation .8 Meetings
   • Outputs - .1 Communications management plan .2 Project management plan updates .3 Project documents updates

10. Risks - the process of defining how to conduct risk management activities for a project

    • Inputs - .1 Project management plan .2 Project documents .3 Agreements .4 Procurement documentation .5 Enterprise environmental factors .6 Organizational process assets
      • Tools & Techniques - .1 Expert judgment .2 Data gathering .3 Data analysis .4 Interpersonal and team skills .5 Prompt lists .6 Meetings
        • Outputs - .1 Risk register .2 Risk report .3 Project documents updates

11. Necessary acquisitions - the process of documenting project procurement decisions, specifying the approach and identifying potential sellers

    • Inputs - .1 Project charter .2 Business documents .3 Project management plan .4 Project documents .5 Enterprise environmental factors .6 Organizational process assets
      • Tools & Techniques - .1 Expert judgment .2 Data gathering .3 Data analysis .4 Source selection analysis .5 Meetings
        • Outputs - .1 Procurement management plan .2 Procurement strategy .3 Bid documents .4 Procurement statement of work .5 Source selection criteria .6 Make-or-buy decisions .7 Independent cost estimates .8 Change requests .9 Project documents updates .10 Organizational process assets updates

12. Planning Stakeholder Engagement - the process of developing approaches to involve project stakeholders based on their needs, expectations, interests, and potential impact on the project

    • Inputs - .1 Project charter .2 Project management plan .3 Project documents .4 Agreements .5 Enterprise environmental factors .6 Organizational process assets
      • Tools & Techniques - .1 Expert judgment .2 Data gathering .3 Data analysis .4 Decision making .5 Data representation .6 Meetings
        • Outputs - .1 Stakeholder engagement plan