Process Group
Process Group
Managing a Project
Managing a project typically includes, but is not limited to:
Identifying requirements;
Addressing the various needs, concerns, and expectations of the stakeholders in planning
and executing the project;
Setting up, maintaining, and carrying out communications among stakeholders that are
active, effective, and collaborative in nature;
Managing stakeholders towards meeting project requirements and creating project
deliverables;
Balancing the competing project constraints, which include, but are not limited to:
◦ Scope,
◦ Quality,
◦ Schedule,
◦ Budget,
◦ Resources, and
◦ Risks
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Project Management Knowledge Areas (1 of 4)
The Project Management Knowledge Areas
Project Integration Management, describes the processes required to ensure that the
various elements of the project are properly coordinated. It consists of project plan
development, project plan execution, and overall change control.
Project Scope Management, describes the processes required to ensure that the
project includes all the work required, and only the work required, to complete the project
successfully. It consists of initiation, scope planning, scope definition, scope verification,
and scope change control.
Project Time Management, describes the processes required to ensure timely
completion of the project. It consists of activity definition, activity sequencing, activity
duration estimating, schedule development, and schedule control.
Project Stakeholders
Stakeholders include ALL members of the project team as well as all interested entities that are
internal or external to the organization. The project team identifies internal and external, positive
and negative, and performing and Advising stakeholders in order to determine the project
requirements and the expectations of all parties involved.
Some examples of project stakeholders:
Sponsor
Customers and users
Sellers
Business partners
Organizational groups
Functional managers
Project Governance
Project Governance is an oversight function that is aligned with the organization's governance
model and that encompasses the project life cycle. Project framework provides the project
manager and team with structure, processes, decision-making models and tools for managing the
project, while supporting and controlling the project for successful delivery. Project governance
is a critical element of any project, especially on complex and risky projects.
Elements of a project governance:
Project success and deliverable acceptance criteria;
Process to identify, escalate, and resolve issues that arise during the project;
Relationship among the project team, organizational groups, and external stakeholders
Project decision-making processes;
Guideline for aligning project governance and organizational strategy;
Project life cycle approach
Project Success
The success of the project should be measured in terms of completing the project within
the constraints of scope, time, cost, quality, resources and risk as approved between the
project manager and senior management.
Project success should be referred to the last baseline approved by the authorized
stakeholders.
The project manager is responsible and accountable for setting realistic and achievable
boundaries for the project and to accomplish the project within approved baselines.
Project Information
Throughout the life cycle of the project, a significant amount of data and information is
collected, analyzed, transformed, and distributed in various formats to project team members and
other stakeholders. Project data are collected as a result of various executing processes and are
shared within the project team. The collected data are analyzed in context, and aggregated and
transformed to become project information during various controlling processes. The information
may then be communicated verbally or stored and distributed as reports in various formats.
Project Management Process Groups vs Knowledge Areas
Project Management Process Groups vs Knowledge Areas
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