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Project Integration Management
Project Integration Management comprises seven processes:
Develop Project Charter
Develop Preliminary Project Scope Statement
Develop Project Management Plan
Direct and Manage Project Execution
Monitor and Control Project Work
Integrated Change Control
Close Project
The Project Integration Management knowledge area is concerned with coordinating all aspects of the project plan and is highly interactive. This knowledge area involves identifying and defining the work of the project and combining, unifying, and integrating the appropriate processes. This knowledge area also takes into account satisfactorily meeting the requirements of the customer and stakeholder and managing their expectations.
Project planning, project execution, monitoring project work, and change control occur throughout the project and are repeated continuously while working on the project. Project planning and execution involve weighing the objectives of the project against the alternatives to bring the project to a successful completion. This includes making choices about how to effectively use resources and coordinating the work of the project on a continuous basis. Monitoring the work of the project involves anticipating potential problems and issues and dealing with them before they reach the critical point. Change control impacts the project plan, which in turn impacts the work of the project, which in turn can impact the project management plan, so you can see that these processes are very tightly linked. The processes in this area, as with all the knowledge areas, also interact with other processes in the remaining knowledge areas. For example, the Close Project process uses outputs from the Contract Administration process and produces inputs to the Contract Closure process.
The Project Integration Management knowledge area has two tools for assisting with process integration: Earned Value Management and project management software. Earned Value Management (EVM) is a project-integrating methodology used in this knowledge area to integrate the processes and measure project performance through a project's life cycle.
| Process Name |
Project Management Process Group |
| Develop Project Charter |
Initiating |
| Develop Preliminary Project Scope Statement |
Initiating |
| Develop Project Management Plan |
Planning |
| Direct and Manage Project Execution |
Executing |
| Monitor and Control Project Work |
Monitoring and Controlling |
| Integrated Change Control |
Monitoring and Controlling |
| Close Project |
Closing |
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