PMBOK Guide – 08.18

The project management team is responsible for determining what is appropriate for any given project.

 

What is a Project? : A project is a temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product, service, or result (deliverables)

Temporary

Unique Products, Services, or Results

Progressive Elaboration – Progressive elaboration should not be confused with scope creep

 

Projects vs. Operation Work(OW)

Projects and operations differ primarily in that operations are ongoing and repetitive, while projects are temporary ad unique

 

What is Project Management?

: Project management is the application of knowledge, skills, tools and techniques to project activities to meet project requirements.

• Identifying requirements
• Establishing clear and achievable objectives
• Balancing the competing demands for quality, scope, time and cost
• Adapting the specifications, plans, and approach to the different concerns and expectations of the various stakeholders

Project managers often talk of a " triple constraint" – Project scope, time and cost

The project management team has a professional responsibility to its stakeholders including customers

 

Subproject – Project – Program – Portfolio

 

PMO is an organizational unit to centralize and coordinate the management of projects under its domain.

A PMO oversees the management of projects, programs, or combination of both.

Some PMOs, however, do coordinate and manage related projects.

 

Organizational Structure – Functional/Matrix/Projectized

 

Chapter4

Project Integration Management

The Project Integration Management Knowledge Area includes the processes and activities needed to identify, define, combine, unify, and coordinate the various processes and project management activities within the Project Management Process Groups.

4.1 Develop Project Charter – developing the project charter that formally authorizes a project or a project phase.

• The project charter is the document that formally authorizes a project. The project charter provides the project manager with the authority to apply organizational resources to project activities. A project manager is identified and assigned as early in the project as is feasible.
• Assigned Project Manager and authority level.
• Inputs
  • Contract
  • Project Statement of Work(SOW) – bid document – ex) RFP, RFI, request for bid
  • Enterprise Environmental Factors(EEF)
  • Organizational Process Assets
• Tools and Techniques
  • Project Selection Methods
    • Benefit measurement methods
    • Mathematical models
  • Project Management Methodology
  • Project Management Information System
  • Expert Judgment
• Outputs
  • Project Charter

4.2 Develop Preliminary Project Scope Statement –

4.3 Develop Project Management Plan – documenting the actions necessary define, prepare, integrate, and coordinate all subsidiary plans into a project management plan.

4.4 Direct and Manage Project Execution – executing the work

4.5 Monitor and Control Project Work – monitoring and controlling the processes used to initiate, plan, execute, and close a project to meet the performance objectives defined in the project management plan.

4.6 Integrated Change Control – reviewing all change requests approving changes, and controlling changes to the deliverables and organizational process assets.

4.7 Close Project – formally close

 

 

 

 

 

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