Processes are based on PMBOK Guide 5e
Process chart Knowledge Areas: Integration Scope Time Cost Human Resource Communications Stakeholder Risk Quality Procurement
Knowledge
Area		 Initiating Planning Executing Monitoring &
Controlling		 Closing
Project Integration Management
  1. Develop project charter
    Inputs:
    1. Project statement of work
    2. Business case
    3. Agreements
    4. Enterprise environmental factors
    5. Organizational process assets
    Tools:
    1. Expert judgment
    2. Facilitation techniques
    Outputs:
    1. Project charter
  1. Develop project management plan
    Inputs:
    1. Project charter
    2. Outputs from other processes
    3. Enterprise environmental factors
    4. Organizational process assets
    Tools:
    1. Expert judgment
    2. Facilitation techniques
    Outputs:
    1. Project management plan
  1. Direct & manage project work
    Inputs:
    1. Project management plan (output from Develop Project Management Plan)
    2. Approved change requests
    3. Enterprise environmental factors
    4. Organizational process assets
    Tools:
    1. Expert judgment
    2. Project management information system
    3. Meetings
    Outputs:
    1. Deliverables
    2. Work performance data
    3. Change requests
    4. Project management plan updates
    5. Project documents updates
  1. Monitor & control project work
    Inputs:
    1. Project management plan (output from Develop Project Management Plan)
    2. Schedule forecasts
    3. Cost forecasts
    4. Validated changes
    5. Work performance information
    6. Enterprise environmental factors
    7. Organizational process assets
    Tools:
    1. Expert judgment
    2. Analytical techniques
    3. Project management information system
    4. Meetings
    Outputs:
    1. Change requests
    2. Work performance reports
    3. Project management plan updates
    4. Project documents updates
  2. Perform integrated change control
    Inputs:
    1. Project management plan (output from Develop Project Management Plan)
    2. Work performance reports
    3. Change requests
    4. Enterprise environmental factors
    5. Organizational process assets
    Tools:
    1. Expert judgment
    2. Meetings
    3. Change control tools
    Outputs:
    1. Approved change requests
    2. Change log
    3. Project management plan updates
    4. Project documents updates
  1. Close project or phase
    Inputs:
    1. Project management plan (output from Develop Project Management Plan)
    2. Accepted deliverables
    3. Organizational process assets
    Tools:
    1. Expert judgment
    2. Analytical techniques
    3. Meetings
    Outputs:
    1. Final product, service, or result transition
    2. Organizational process assets updates
Project Scope Management		  
  1. Plan scope management
    Inputs:
    1. Project management plan (output from Develop Project Management Plan)
    2. Project charter
    3. Enterprise environmental factors
    4. Organizational process assets
    Tools:
    1. Expert judgment
    2. Meetings
    Outputs:
    1. Scope management plan
    2. Requirements management plan
  2. Collect requirements
    Inputs:
    1. Scope management plan
    2. Requirements management plan
    3. Stakeholder management plan
    4. Project charter
    5. Stakeholder register (output from Identify Stakeholders)
    Tools:
    1. Interview
    2. Focus groups
    3. Facilitated workshops
    4. Group creativity techniques
    5. Group decision-making techniques
    6. Questionnaires & surveys
    7. Observations
    8. Prototypes
    9. Benchmarking
    10. Context diagrams
    11. Document analysis
    Outputs:
    1. Requirements documentation
    2. Requirements traceability matrix
  3. Define scope
    Inputs:
    1. Scope management plan
    2. Project charter
    3. Requirements documentation
    4. Organizational process assets
    Tools:
    1. Expert judgment
    2. Product analysis
    3. Alternatives generation
    4. Facilitated workshops
    Outputs:
    1. Project scope statement
    2. Project documents updates
  4. Create work breakdown structure
    Inputs:
    1. Scope management plan
    2. Project scope statement
    3. Requirements documentation
    4. Enterprise environmental factors
    5. Organizational process assets
    Tools:
    1. Decomposition
    2. Expert judgment
    Outputs:
    1. Scope baseline
    2. Project documents updates
  
  1. Validate scope
    Inputs:
    1. Project management plan (output from Develop Project Management Plan)
    2. Requirements documentation
    3. Requirements traceability matrix
    4. Verified deliverables
    5. Work performance data
    Tools:
    1. Inspection
    2. Group decision-making techniques
    Outputs:
    1. Accepted deliverables
    2. Change requests
    3. Work performance information
    4. Project documents updates
  2. Control scope
    Inputs:
    1. Project management plan (output from Develop Project Management Plan)
    2. Requirements documentation
    3. Requirements traceability matrix
    4. Work performance data
    5. Organizational process assets
    Tools:
    1. Variance analysis
    Outputs:
    1. Work performance information
    2. Change requests
    3. Project management plan updates
    4. Project documents updates
    5. Organizational process assets updates
  
Project Time Management		  
  1. Plan schedule management
    Inputs:
    1. Project management plan (output from Develop Project Management Plan)
    2. Project charter
    3. Enterprise environmental factors
    4. Organizational process assets
    Tools:
    1. Expert judgment
    2. Analytical techniques
    3. Meetings
    Outputs:
    1. Schedule management plan
  2. Define activities
    Inputs:
    1. Schedule management plan
    2. Scope baseline
    3. Enterprise environmental factors
    4. Organizational process assets
    Tools:
    1. Decomposition
    2. Rolling wave planning
    3. Expert judgment
    Outputs:
    1. Activity list
    2. Activity attributes
    3. Milestone list
  3. Sequence activities
    Inputs:
    1. Schedule management plan
    2. Activity list
    3. Activity attributes
    4. Milestone list
    5. Project scope statement
    6. Enterprise environmental factors
    7. Organizational process assets
    Tools:
    1. Precedence diagramming method
    2. Dependency determination
    3. Leads and lags
    Outputs:
    1. Project schedule network diagrams
    2. Project documents updates
  4. Estimate activity resources
    Inputs:
    1. Schedule management plan
    2. Activity list
    3. Activity attributes
    4. Resource calendars
    5. Risk register
    6. Activity cost estimates
    7. Enterprise environmental factors
    8. Organizational process assets
    Tools:
    1. Expert judgment
    2. Alternative analysis
    3. Published estimating data
    4. Bottom-up estimating
    5. Project management software
    Outputs:
    1. Activity resource requirements
    2. Resource breakdown structure
    3. Project documents updates
  5. Estimate activity duration
    Inputs:
    1. Schedule management plan
    2. Activity list
    3. Activity attributes
    4. Activity resource requirements
    5. Resource calendars
    6. Project scope statement
    7. Risk register
    8. Resource breakdown structure
    9. Enterprise environmental factors
    10. Organizational process assets
    Tools:
    1. Expert judgment
    2. Analogous estimating
    3. Parametric estimating
    4. Three-point estimating
    5. Group decision-making techniques
    6. Reserve analysis
    Outputs:
    1. Activity duration estimates
    2. Project documents updates
  6. Develop schedule
    Inputs:
    1. Schedule management plan
    2. Activity list
    3. Activity attributes
    4. Project schedule network diagrams
    5. Activity resource requirements
    6. Resource calendars
    7. Activity duration estimates
    8. Project scope statement
    9. Risk register
    10. Project staff assignments
    11. Resource breakdown structure
    12. Enterprise environmental factors
    13. Organizational process assets
    Tools:
    1. Schedule network analysis
    2. Critical path method
    3. Critical chain method
    4. Resource optimization techniques
    5. Modeling techniques
    6. Leads and lags
    7. Schedule compression
    8. Scheduling tool
    Outputs:
    1. Schedule baseline
    2. Project schedule
    3. Schedule data
    4. Project calendars
    5. Project management plan updates
    6. Project documents updates
  
  1. Control schedule
    Inputs:
    1. Project management plan (output from Develop Project Management Plan)
    2. Project schedule
    3. Work performance data
    4. Project calendars
    5. Schedule data
    6. Organizational process assets
    Tools:
    1. Performance reviews
    2. Project management software
    3. Resource optimization techniques
    4. Modeling techniques
    5. Leads and lags
    6. Schedule compression
    7. Scheduling tool
    Outputs:
    1. Work performance information
    2. Schedule forecasts
    3. Change requests
    4. Project management plan updates
    5. Project documents updates
    6. Organizational process assets updates
  
Project Cost Management		  
  1. Plan cost management
    Inputs:
    1. Project management plan (output from Develop Project Management Plan)
    2. Project charter
    3. Enterprise environmental factors
    4. Organizational process assets
    Tools:
    1. Expert judgment
    2. Analytical techniques
    3. Meetings
    Outputs:
    1. Cost management plan
  2. Estimate costs
    Inputs:
    1. Cost management plan
    2. Human resource management plan
    3. Scope baseline
    4. Project schedule
    5. Risk register
    6. Enterprise environmental factors
    7. Organizational process assets
    Tools:
    1. Expert judgment
    2. Analogous estimating
    3. Parametric estimating
    4. Bottom-up estimating
    5. Three-point estimating
    6. Reserve analysis
    7. Cost of quality
    8. Project management software
    9. Vendor bid analysis
    10. Group decision-making techniques
    Outputs:
    1. Activity cost estimates
    2. Basis of estimates
    3. Project documents updates
  3. Determine budget
    Inputs:
    1. Cost management plan
    2. Scope baseline
    3. Activity cost estimates
    4. Basis of estimates
    5. Project schedule
    6. Resource calendars
    7. Risk register
    8. Agreements
    9. Organizational process assets
    Tools:
    1. Cost aggregation
    2. Reserve analysis
    3. Expert judgment
    4. Historical relationships
    5. Funding limit reconciliation
    Outputs:
    1. Cost baseline
    2. Project funding requirements
    3. Project documents updates
  
  1. Control costs
    Inputs:
    1. Project management plan (output from Develop Project Management Plan)
    2. Project funding requirements
    3. Work performance data
    4. Organizational process assets
    Tools:
    1. Earned value management
    2. Forecasting
    3. To-complete performance index
    4. Performance reviews
    5. Project management software
    6. Reserve analysis
    Outputs:
    1. Work performance information
    2. Cost forecasts
    3. Change requests
    4. Project management plan updates
    5. Project documents updates
    6. Organization process assets updates
  
Project Human Resource Management		  
  1. Plan human resource management
    Inputs:
    1. Project management plan (output from Develop Project Management Plan)
    2. Activity resource requirements
    3. Enterprise environmental factors
    4. Organizational process assets
    Tools:
    1. Organization charts & position descriptions
    2. Networking
    3. Organizational theory
    4. Expert judgment
    5. Meetings
    Outputs:
    1. Human resource management plan
  1. Acquire project team
    Inputs:
    1. Human resource management plan
    2. Enterprise environmental factors
    3. Organizational process assets
    Tools:
    1. Pre-assignment
    2. Negotiation
    3. Acquisition
    4. Virtual teams
    5. Multi-criteria decision analysis
    Outputs:
    1. Project staff assignments
    2. Resource calendars
    3. Project management plan updates
  2. Develop project team
    Inputs:
    1. Human resource management plan
    2. Project staff assignments
    3. Resource calendars
    Tools:
    1. Interpersonal skills
    2. Training
    3. Team building activities
    4. Ground rules
    5. Co-location
    6. Recognition & rewards
    7. Personnel assessment tools
    Outputs:
    1. Team performance assessments
    2. Enterprise environmental factors updates
  3. Manage project team
    Inputs:
    1. Human resource management plan
    2. Project staff assignments
    3. Team performance assessments
    4. Issue log
    5. Work performance reports
    6. Organizational process assets
    Tools:
    1. Observation & conversation
    2. Project performance appraisals
    3. Conflict management
    4. Interpersonal skills
    Outputs:
    1. Change requests
    2. Project management plan updates
    3. Project documents updates
    4. Enterprise environmental factors updates
    5. Organization process assets updates
    
Project Communications Management		  
  1. Plan communications management
    Inputs:
    1. Project management plan (output from Develop Project Management Plan)
    2. Stakeholder register (output from Identify Stakeholders)
    3. Enterprise environmental factors
    4. Organizational process assets
    Tools:
    1. Communication requirements analysis
    2. Communication technology
    3. Communication models
    4. Communication methods
    5. Meetings
    Outputs:
    1. Communications management plan
    2. Project documents updates
  1. Manage communications
    Inputs:
    1. Communications management plan (output from Plan Communications Management)
    2. Work performance reports (output from Monitor & Control Project Work)
    3. Enterprise environmental factors
    4. Organizational process assets
    Tools:
    1. Communication technology
    2. Communication models
    3. Communication methods
    4. Information management systems
    5. Performance reporting
    Outputs:
    1. Project communications
    2. Project management plan updates
    3. Project documents updates
    4. Organization process assets updates
  1. Control communications
    Inputs:
    1. Project management plan (output from Develop Project Management Plan)
    2. Project communications (output from Manage Communications)
    3. Issue log (output from Manage Stakeholder Engagement)
    4. Work performance data (output from Direct & Manage Project Work)
    5. Organizational process assets
    Tools:
    1. Information management systems
    2. Expert judgment
    3. Meetings
    Outputs:
    1. Work performance information
    2. Change requests
    3. Project management plan updates
    4. Project documents updates
    5. Organization process assets updates
  
Project Stakeholder Management
  1. Identify stakeholders
    Inputs:
    1. Project charter
    2. Procurement documents
    3. Enterprise environmental factors
    4. Organizational process assets
    Tools:
    1. Stakeholder analysis
    2. Expert judgment
    3. Meetings
    Outputs:
    1. Stakeholder register
  1. Plan stakeholder management
    Inputs:
    1. Project management plan (output from Develop Project Management Plan)
    2. Stakeholder register (output from Identify Stakeholders)
    3. Enterprise environmental factors
    4. Organizational process assets
    Tools:
    1. Expert judgment
    2. Meetings
    3. Analytical techniques
    Outputs:
    1. Stakeholder management plan
    2. Project documents updates
  1. Manage stakeholder engagement
    Inputs:
    1. Stakeholder management plan
    2. Communications management plan
    3. Change log
    4. Organizational process assets
    Tools:
    1. Communication methods
    2. Interpersonal skills
    3. Management skills
    Outputs:
    1. Issue log
    2. Change requests
    3. Project management plan updates
    4. Project documents updates
    5. Organization process assets updates
  1. Control stakeholder engagement
    Inputs:
    1. Project management plan (output from Develop Project Management Plan)
    2. Issue log
    3. Work performance data
    4. Project documents
    Tools:
    1. Information management systems
    2. Expert judgment
    3. Meetings
    Outputs:
    1. Work performance information
    2. Change requests
    3. Project management plan updates
    4. Project documents updates
    5. Organization process assets updates
  
Project Risk Management		  
  1. Plan risk management
    Inputs:
    1. Project management plan (output from Develop Project Management Plan)
    2. Project charter
    3. Stakeholder register (output from Identify Stakeholders)
    4. Enterprise environmental factors
    5. Organizational process assets
    Tools:
    1. Analytical techniques
    2. Expert judgment
    3. Meetings
    Outputs:
    1. Risk management plan
  2. Identify risks
    Inputs:
    1. Risk management plan
    2. Cost management plan
    3. Schedule management plan
    4. Quality management plan
    5. Human resource management plan
    6. Scope baseline
    7. Activity cost estimates
    8. Activity duration estimates
    9. Stakeholder register (output from Identify Stakeholders)
    10. Project documents
    11. Procurement documents
    12. Enterprise environmental factors
    13. Organizational process assets
    Tools:
    1. Documentation reviews
    2. Information gathering techniques
    3. Checklist analysis
    4. Assumptions analysis
    5. Diagramming techniques
    6. Strength, weakness, opportunity & threat analysis
    7. Expert judgment
    Outputs:
    1. Risk register
  3. Perform qualitative risk analysis
    Inputs:
    1. Risk management plan
    2. Scope baseline
    3. Risk register
    4. Enterprise environmental factors
    5. Organizational process assets
    Tools:
    1. Risk probability & impact assessment
    2. Probability & impact matrix
    3. Risk data quality assessment
    4. Risk categorization
    5. Risk urgency assessment
    6. Expert judgment
    Outputs:
    1. Project documents updates
  4. Perform quantitative risk analysis
    Inputs:
    1. Risk management plan
    2. Cost management plan
    3. Schedule management plan
    4. Risk register
    5. Enterprise environmental factors
    6. Organizational process assets
    Tools:
    1. Data gathering & representation techniques
    2. Quantitative risk analysis & modeling techniques
    3. Expert judgment
    Outputs:
    1. Project documents updates
  5. Plan risk responses
    Inputs:
    1. Risk management plan
    2. Risk register
    Tools:
    1. Strategies for negative risks or threats
    2. Strategies for positive risks or opportunities
    3. Contingent response strategies
    4. Expert judgment
    Outputs:
    1. Project management plan updates
    2. Project documents updates
  
  1. Control risks
    Inputs:
    1. Project management plan (output from Develop Project Management Plan)
    2. Risk register
    3. Work performance data
    4. Work performance reports
    Tools:
    1. Risk assessment
    2. Risk audits
    3. Variance & trend analysis
    4. Technical performance measurement
    5. Reserve analysis
    6. Meetings
    Outputs:
    1. Work performance information
    2. Change requests
    3. Project management plan updates
    4. Project documents updates
    5. Organization process assets updates
  
Project Quality Management		  
  1. Plan quality management
    Inputs:
    1. Project management plan (output from Develop Project Management Plan)
    2. Stakeholder register (output from Identify Stakeholders)
    3. Risk register
    4. Requirements documentation
    5. Enterprise environmental factors
    6. Organizational process assets
    Tools:
    1. Cost-benefit analysis
    2. Cost of quality
    3. Seven basic quality tools
    4. Benchmarking
    5. Design of experiments
    6. Statistical sampling
    7. Additional quality planning tools
    8. Meetings
    Outputs:
    1. Quality management plan
    2. Process improvement plan
    3. Quality metrics
    4. Quality checklists
    5. Project documents updates
  1. Perform quality assurance
    Inputs:
    1. Quality management plan
    2. Process improvement plan
    3. Quality metrics
    4. Quality control measurements
    5. Project documents
    Tools:
    1. Quality management & control tools
    2. Quality audits
    3. Process analysis
    Outputs:
    1. Change requests
    2. Project management plan updates
    3. Project documents updates
    4. Organization process assets updates
  1. Control quality
    Inputs:
    1. Project management plan (output from Develop Project Management Plan)
    2. Quality metrics
    3. Quality checklists
    4. Work performance data
    5. Approved change requests
    6. Deliverables
    7. Project documents
    8. Organizational process assets
    Tools:
    1. Seven basic quality tools
    2. Statistical sampling
    3. Inspection
    4. Approved change requests review
    Outputs:
    1. Quality control measurements
    2. Validated changes
    3. Validated deliverables
    4. Work performance information
    5. Change requests
    6. Project management plan updates
    7. Project documents updates
    8. Organization process assets updates
  
Project Procurement Management		  
  1. Plan procurement management
    Inputs:
    1. Project management plan (output from Develop Project Management Plan)
    2. Requirements documentation
    3. Risk register
    4. Activity resource requirements
    5. Project schedule
    6. Activity cost estimates
    7. Stakeholder register (output from Identify Stakeholders)
    8. Enterprise environmental factors
    9. Organizational process assets
    Tools:
    1. Make-or-buy analysis
    2. Expert judgment
    3. Market research
    4. Meetings
    Outputs:
    1. Procurement management plan
    2. Procurement statement of work
    3. Procurement documents
    4. Source selection criteria
    5. Make-or-buy decisions
    6. Change requests
    7. Project documents updates
  1. Conduct procurements
    Inputs:
    1. Procurement management plan
    2. Procurement documents
    3. Source selection criteria
    4. Seller proposals
    5. Project documents
    6. Make-or-buy decisions
    7. Procurement statement of work
    8. Organizational process assets
    Tools:
    1. Bidder conference
    2. Proposal evaluation techniques
    3. Independent estimates
    4. Expert judgment
    5. Advertising
    6. Analytical techniques
    7. Procurement negotiations
    Outputs:
    1. Selected sellers
    2. Agreements
    3. Resource calendars
    4. Change requests
    5. Project management plan updates
    6. Project documents updates
  1. Control procurements
    Inputs:
    1. Project management plan (output from Develop Project Management Plan)
    2. Procurement documents
    3. Agreements
    4. Approved change requests
    5. Work performance reports
    6. Work performance data
    Tools:
    1. Contract change control system
    2. Procurement performance reviews
    3. Inspection & audits
    4. Performance reporting
    5. Payment systems
    6. Claims administration
    7. Records management system
    Outputs:
    1. Work performance information
    2. Change requests
    3. Project management plan updates
    4. Project documents updates
    5. Organization process assets updates
  1. Close procurements
    Inputs:
    1. Project management plan (output from Develop Project Management Plan)
    2. Procurement documents
    Tools:
    1. Procurement audits
    2. Procurement negotiations
    3. Records management system
    Outputs:
    1. Closed procurements
    2. Organization process assets updates
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