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Project Integration Management

Process Name
Develop Project
Charter

Inputs
Project Statement of Work
Business Case

Develop Project
Management Plan

Agreements
Enterprise Environmental Factors
Organizational Process Assets
Project Charter
Outputs From other Processes

Direct and Manage

Project Work

Enterprise Environmental Factors

Organizational Process Assets
Project Management Plan
Approved Change Requests
Enterprise Environmental Factors
Organizational Process Assets

Monitor and Control

Project Work

Project Management Plan

Costs forecasts
Schedule forecasts
Validated changes

Perform Integrated
Change Control

Work performance information

Enterprise Environmental Factors
Organizational Process Assets
Project Management Plan
Work Performance reports
Change Requests
Enterprise Environmental Factors

Close Project or Phase

Organizational Process Assets

Project Management Plan
Accepted deliverables

Outputs
Project Charter

Tools & Techniques

Experts Judgment
Facilitation
Techniques

Project Management Plan

Experts Judgment
Facilitation
Techniques

Deliverables
Work Performance data

Experts Judgment
Project management
information system
Meetings

Change requests
Project management plan
updates
Change Requests
Work performance reports
Project management plan
updates
Project documents
updates

Experts Judgment
Analytical techniques
Project management
information system
Meetings

Approved change requests

Change log
Project management plan
updates
Project documents
updates

Experts Judgment
Meetings
Change log tools

Final product, service, or

result transition
Organizational Process
Assets updates

Experts Judgment

Organizational Process Assets

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Meetings

Project Integration Management

Unification, consolidation, articulation and interactive actions those are crucial to project
completion. Integration is about making choices, about where to concentrate resources and
efforts. It also involves making tradeoffs among competing objectives and alternatives.
Integration is primarily concerned with effectively integrating the processes among the Project
Management Process Groups.

The project Charter

o Authorizes Project Manager
o Created based on a business need, a customer request, or a market demand
o Signed by the performing organizations senior management.
o Officially confirms the start of the project
o Includes high level project requirements, acceptance criteria, project objectives,
product requirements, and key milestone dates.
Develop Project management Plan
o A formal, approved document that defines how the project is managed,
executed, and controlled. It may be summary or detailed and may be composed
of one or more subsidiary management plans and other planning documents
o The plan guides your work on the project
o It is iterative and progressively elaborated
o PMBOK does not offer Project Management Methodology
Direct and Manage Project Work
o The process of leading and performing the work defined in the project
management plan, and implementing approved changes to achieve the projects
objectives.
Monitor and Control Project Work
o The process of tracking, reviewing, and reporting project progress against the
performance objectives defined in the project management plan

Perform Integrated Change Control

o The process of reviewing, approving, and managing changes across the project
Close Project / Phase
o The process of finalizing all activities to close the project/phase
o Main risk here is resources tend to leave even before closing the project
properly.
o Evaluating project success/failure, formal acceptance, project records, lessons
learned

Project Scope Management

Process Name
Plan Scope
Management

Collect Requirements

Inputs
Project management plan
Project charter
Enterprise Environmental Factors
Organizational Process Assets
Scope management plan
Requirements management plan

Outputs
Scope management plan
Requirements management
plan

Experts Judgment
Meetings

Requirements
documentation
Requirements traceability
matrix

Interviews

Stakeholder management plan

Project charter
Stakeholder register

Define Scope

Create WBS

Validate Scope

Control Scope

Scope management plan

Project charter
Requirements documentation
Organizational Process Assets
Scope management plan
Project scope statement
Requirements documentation
Enterprise Environmental Factors
Organizational Process Assets
Project management plan
Requirements documentation

Project scope statement

Project documents updates

Requirements traceability matrix

Work performance
information
Project documents updates

Verified deliverables
Work performance data
Project management plan
Requirements documentation
Requirements traceability matrix
Work performance data
Organizational process assets

Tools & Techniques

Scope baseline
Project documents updates

Accepted deliverables
Change requests

Work performance
information
Change requests
Project management plan
updates
Project documents updates
Org. process assets updates

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Focus group
Facilitated workshops
Group creativity
techniques
Group decision-making
techniques
Questionnaires and
surveys
Observations
Prototypes
Benchmarking
Context diagram
Document analysis
Experts Judgment
Product analysis
Alternative generation
Facilitated workshops
Experts Judgment
Decomposition

Inspection
Group decision-making
techniques

Variance analysis

Project Scope Management

Includes the processes required to ensure that the project includes all the work required, and
only the work required, to complete the project successfully.

Plan Scope Management

o The process of creating a scope management plan the documents how the
project scope will be defined, validated, and controlled
Collect Requirements
o The process of determining, defining and documenting stakeholders needs to
meet the project objectives
Define Scope
o The process of developing a detailed description of the project and product
Create WBS
o The process of subdividing project deliverables and project work into smaller and
more manageable components.
Validate Scope
o The process of formalizing acceptance of the completed project deliverables.
Control Scope
o The process of monitoring the status of the project and product scope and
managing changes to the scope baseline

The term scope can refer to:

Product scope: The features and functions that characterize a product, service, or result.
The completion of product scope is measured against the product requirements
Project scope: The work performed to deliver a product, service, or result with the
specified features and functions. The project scope is measured against the project
management plan and it is usually include the product scope

Project Time Management

Process Name
Plan Schedule
Management
Define Activities

Sequence Activities

Estimate Activity
Resources

Inputs

Outputs

Project management plan

Project charter
Enterprise Environmental Factors
Organizational Process Assets
Schedule management plan
Scope baseline
Enterprise Environmental Factors
Organizational Process Assets
Schedule management plan

Schedule management plan

Experts Judgment
Analytical techniques
Meetings

Activity list
Activity attributes
Milestone list

Decomposition
Rolling wave planning
Experts Judgment

Project schedule network

diagram

Activity list

Project documents updates

Precedence
diagramming
method(PDM)
Dependency
determination
Leads and lags

Activity attributes
Milestone list
Project scope statement
Enterprise Environmental Factors
Organizational Process Assets
Schedule management plan
Activity list
Activity attributes

Activity resource
requirements
Resource breakdown
structure
Project documents updates

Experts Judgment

Activity duration estimate

Project documents updates

Experts Judgment
Analogous estimating
Parametric estimating
Three-point estimating
Group decision-making
techniques
Reserve analysis

Resource calendars
Risk registrar

Estimate Activity
Duration

Tools & Techniques

Activity cost estimates

Enterprise Environmental Factors
Organizational Process Assets
Schedule management plan
Activity list
Activity attributes
Activity resource requirements
Work performance data
Resource calendars
Project scope statement
Risk register
Resource breakdown structure
Enterprise Environmental Factors
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Published estimating
data
Bottom-up estimating
Project management
software

Develop Schedule

Control Schedule

Schedule management plan

Schedule baseline

Activity list
Activity attributes
Project schedule network diagram

Project schedule
Schedule data
Project calendars

Activity resource requirements

Project management plan

updates
Project documents updates

Resource calendars
Activity duration estimate
Project scope statement
Risk register
Project staff assignments
Resource breakdown structure
Enterprise Environmental Factors
Organizational Process Assets
Project management plan
Project schedule

Work performance
information
Schedule forecasts

Work performance data

Change requests

Project calendars

Project management plan

updates
Project documents updates
Organizational Process Assets
updates

Schedule data
Organizational Process Assets

Schedule network
analysis
Critical path method
Critical chain method
Resource optimization
techniques
Modeling techniques
Leads and lags
Schedule compression
Scheduling tools

Performance reviews
Project management
software
Resource optimization
techniques
Modeling techniques
Leads and lags
Schedule compression
Scheduling tools

Project Time Management

Project Time Management includes the processes required to manage timely completion of the
project.
The project time management processes and their associated tools and techniques are
documented in the schedule management plan. The schedule management plan is contained
in, or is a subsidiary plan of, the project management plan.

Plan Schedule Management

o The process of establishing the policies, procedures, and documentation for
planning, developing, managing, executing, and controlling the project schedule
Define Activities
o The process of identifying the specific actions to be performed to produce the
project deliverables
Sequence Activities
o The process of identifying and documenting relationships among the project
activities
Estimate Activity Resources
o The process of estimating the type and quantities of material, people,
equipment, or supplies required to perform each activity
Estimate Activity Durations
o The process of approximating the number of work periods needed to complete
individual activities with estimated resources.
Develop Schedule
o The process of analyzing activity sequences, durations, resource requirements,
and schedule constraints to create the project schedule model.
Control Schedule
o The process of monitoring the status of the project to update project progress
and managing changes to the schedule baseline.

Project Cost Management

Process Name
Plan Cost
Management
Estimate Costs

Determine Budget

Control Costs

Inputs

Outputs

Tools & Techniques

Project management plan

Project charter
Enterprise Environmental Factors
Organizational Process Assets
Cost management plan
HR management plan
Scope baseline
Project schedule
Risk register
Requirements documentation
Organizational Process Assets

Cost management plan

Experts Judgment
Analytical techniques
Meetings

Activity cost estimates

Basis of estimates
Project documents updates

Cost management plan

Scope baseline
Activity cost estimates
Basis of estimates
Project schedule

Cost baseline
Project funding requirements
Project documents updates

Experts Judgment
Analogous estimating
Parametric estimating
Bottom-up estimating
Three-point estimating
Reserve analysis
Cost of quality
Project management
software
Vendor bid analysis
Group decision-making
techniques
Cost aggregation
Reserve analysis
Expert judgment
Historical relationships
Funding limit
reconciliation

Resource calendars
Risk register
Agreements
Organizational Process Assets
Project management plan
Project funding requirements
Work performance data

Organizational Process Assets

Work performance
information
Cost forecasts
Change requests

Project management plan

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Project documents updates
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management
Forecasting
To-complete
performance
index(TCPI)
Performance reviews
Project management
software
Reserve analysis

Project Cost Management

Include the processes Involved in planning, estimating, budgeting, funding, managing, and
controlling costs so that the project can be completed within the approved budget.

Plan Cost Management

o The process that establishes the policies, procedures, and documentation for
planning, managing, expending, and controlling project costs
Estimate Costs
o The process of developing an approximation of the monetary resources needed
to complete project activities
Determine Budget
o The process of aggregating the estimated costs of individual activities or work
packages to establish an authorized cost baseline.
Control Costs
o The process of monitoring the status of the project to update the project budget
and managing changes to the cost baseline.

Project Quality Management

Process Name
Plan Quality
Management

Perform Quality
Assurance

Inputs
Project management plan
Stakeholder register
Risk register
Requirements documentation
Enterprise environmental factors
Organizational Process Assets

Quality management plan

Process improvement plan
Quality metrics
Quality checklists
Project documents updates

Quality management plan

Change requests

Process improvement plan

Project management plan

updates
Project documents updates
Organizational Process Assets
updates

Quality metrics
Quality control measurements

Control Quality

Outputs

Project documents
Project management plan
Quality metrics
Work performance data
Approved change requests
Deliverables
Project documents
Organizational Process Assets

Quality control
measurements
Validated changes
Validated deliverables
Work performance
information
Change requests
Project management plan
updates
Project documents updates
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Tools & Techniques

Cost-benefit analysis
Cost of quality
Seven basic quality tools
benchmarking
Design of experiments
Statistical sampling
Additional quality
planning tools
Meetings
Quality management
and control tools
Quality audits
Process analysis

Seven basic quality tools

Statistical sampling
Inspection
Approved change
requests review

Project Quality Management

Includes the processes and activities of the performing organization that determine quality
policies, objectives, and responsibilities so that the project will satisfy the needs for which it
was undertaken. It implements the quality management system through policy and procedures
with continuous process improvement activities conducted throughout, as appropriate.

Plan Quality Management

o The process of identifying quality requirements and/or standards for the project
and product, and documenting how the project will demonstrate compliance
with quality requirements
Perform Quality Assurance(QA)
o The process of auditing the quality requirements and the results from quality
control measurements to ensure appropriate quality standards and operational
definitions are used.
Perform Quality Control(QC)
o The process of monitoring and recording results of executing the quality
activities to assess performance and recommend necessary changes.

Project Human Resource Management

Process Name
Plan HR Management

Inputs
Project management plan

Outputs
HR management plan

Activity resource requirements

Enterprise environmental factors
Organizational process assets

Acquire Project Team

Develop Project Team

HR management plan
Enterprise environmental factors
Organizational process assets

HR management plan
Project staff assignments

Project staff assignments

Resource calendars
Project management plan
updates

Team performance
assessments
Enterprise environmental
factors updates

Resource calendars

Manage Project Team

HR management plan

Change requests

Project staff assignments

Project management plan

updates
Project documents updates
Project management plan
updates
Organizational process assets

Team performance assessments

Issue log
Work performance reports
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Tools & Techniques

Organization charts and
position description
Networking
Organizational theory
Expert judgment
Meetings
Pre- assignments
Negotiation
Acquisition
Virtual teams
Multi-criteria decision
plan updates
Interpersonal skills
Training
Team-building activities
Ground rules
Colocation
Recognition and
rewards
Personal assessment
tools
Observation and
conversation
Project performance
appraisals
Conflict management
Interpersonal skills

Project Human Resource Management

HR management includes the processes that organize, manage, and lead the project team.
The project management team, is a subset of the project team, and is responsible for the
project management and leadership activities such as initiating, planning, executing,
monitoring, controlling, and closing the various project phases. This group can also be referred
to as the core, executive, or leadership team.

Plan Human Resource Management

o The process of identifying and documenting project roles, responsibilities, and
required skills, reporting relationships, and creating a staffing management plan
Acquire Project Team
o The process of confirming human resource availability and obtaining the team
necessary to complete project assignments
Develop Project Team
o The process of improving the competencies, team member interaction, and the
overall team environment to enhance project performance.
Manage Project Team
o The process of tracking team member performance, providing feedback,
resolving issues, and managing changes to optimize project performance

Project Communications Management

Process Name
Plan Communication
Management

Inputs
Project management plan

Enterprise environmental factors

Organizational process assets
Communication management plan

Project communications

Work performance reports

Project management plan

updates
Project documents updates

Enterprise environmental factors

Control
Communications

Tools & Techniques

Communication management Communication

plan
requirements analysis
Project documents updates
Communication
technology
Communication models
Meetings

Stakeholder register

Manage
Communications

Outputs

Organizational process assets

Organizational process assets

updates

Project management plan

Work performance
information
Change requests
Project management plan
updates
Project documents updates
Organizational process assets
updates

Project communications
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technology
Communication models
Communication
methods
Information
management systems
Performance reporting
Information
management systems
Expert judgment
Meeting

Project Communications Management

Includes the processes required to ensure timely and appropriate planning, collection,
distribution, storage, retrieval, management, control, monitoring, and ultimate disposition of
project information. Project managers spend the majority of their time communicating with
team members and other project stakeholders.

Plan Communications Management

o The process of developing an appropriate approach and plan for
communications based on stakeholders information needs and requirements,
and available organizational assets
Manage Communications
o The process of creating, collecting, distributing, storing, retrieving and ultimate
disposition of project information in accordance with communications
management plan
Control Communications
o The process of monitoring and controlling communications throughout the
entire project life cycle

Project Risk Management

Process Name
Inputs
Plan Risk Management Project management plan

Identify Risks

Project charter
Stakeholder register
Enterprise environmental factors
Organizational process assets
Risk management plan

Outputs
Risk management plan

Analytical techniques
Expert judgment
Meetings

Risk register

Documentations
reviews
Information gathering
techniques
Checklist analysis
Assumptions analysis
Diagramming
techniques
SWOT analysis
Expert judgment

Project documents updates

Risk probability and

impact assessment
Probability and impact
matrix
Risk data quality
assessment
Risk categorization
Risk urgency assessment
Expert judgment
Data gathering and
representation
techniques
Quantitative risk
analysis and modeling
techniques
Expert judgment

Cost management plan

Schedule management plan
Quality management plan
HR management plan

Perform Qualitative
Risk Analysis

Scope baseline
Activity cost estimates
Activity duration estimates
Stakeholder register
Project documents
Procurement documents
Enterprise environmental factors
Organizational process assets
Risk management plan
Scope baseline
Risk register
Enterprise environmental factors
Organizational process assets

Perform Quantitative
Risk Analysis

Risk management plan

Project documents updates

Cost management plan

Plan Risk Responses

Schedule management plan

Risk register
Enterprise environmental factors
Organizational process assets
Risk management plan
Risk register

Tools & Techniques

Project management plan

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Strategies for negative

risks or threats
Strategies for positive
risks or opportunity
Contingent response

Control Risks

Risk management plan

Risk register
Work performance data
Work performance reports

Work performance
information
Change requests
Project management plan
updates
Project documents updates
Organizational process assets
updates

strategies
Expert judgment
Risk reassessment
Risk audits
Variance and trend
analysis
Technical performance
measurements
Reserve analysis
Meetings

Project Risk Management

The processes of conducting risk management planning, identification, analysis, response
planning, and monitoring and control on a project. The objectives of Project Risk Management
are to increase the probability and impact of positive events, and decrease the probability and
impact of negative events in the project.
Project risk is always in the future. Risk is an uncertain event or condition that, if it occurs, has
an effect on at least one project objective. Objectives can include scope, schedule, cost, and
quality.

Plan Risk Management

o The process of defining how to conduct risk management activities for a project
Identify Risks
o The process of determining which risks may affect the project and documenting
their characteristics
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
o The process of prioritizing risks for further analysis or action by assessing and
combining their probability of occurrence and impact
Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis
o The process of numerically analyzing the effect of identified risks on overall
project objectives.
Plan Risk Responses
o The process of developing options and actions to enhance opportunities and to
reduce threats to project objectives.
Control Risks
o The process of implementing risk response plans, tracking identified risks,
monitoring residual risks, identifying new risks, and evaluating risk process
effectiveness throughout the project.

Project Procurement Management

Process Name
Plan Procurement
Management

Inputs
Project management plan
Requirements documentation

Conduct Procurements

Risk register
Activity resource requirements
Project schedule
Activity cost estimates
Stakeholder register
Enterprise environmental factors
Organizational process assets
Project management plan
Procurement documents
Source selection criteria
Seller proposals
Project documents
Make-or-buy decision
Procurement statement of work

Control Procurements

Organizational process assets

Procurement management plan
Procurement documents
Agreements
Approved change request
Work performance reports

Outputs
Procurement management
plan
Procurement statement of
work
Procurement documents
Source selection criteria
Make-or-buy decision
Change requests
Project document updates

Make-or-buy analysis

Selected seller
Agreements

Bidder conference
Proposal evaluation
techniques
Independent estimates
Expert judgment
Advertising

Resource calendars
Change requests
Project management plan
updates
Project documents updates

Work performance
information
Change requests
Project management plan
updates
Project documents updates
Organizational process assets
updates

Work performance data

Close Procurements

Project management plan

Procurement documents

Tools & Techniques

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Expert judgment
Market research
Meetings

Analytical techniques
Procurement
negotiations
Contract change control
system
Procurement
performance review
Inspections and audits
Performance reporting
Payment systems
Claims administrations
Records management
system
Procurement audits
Procurement
negotiations
Records management
system

Project Procurement Management

Includes the processes necessary to purchase or acquire products, services, or results needed
from outside the project team. The organization can be either the buyer or seller of the
products, services, or results of a project.

Plan Procurement Management

o The process of documenting project purchasing decisions, specifying the
approach, and identifying potential sellers
Conduct Procurements
o The process of obtaining seller responses, selecting a seller, and awarding a
contract
Control Procurements
o The process of managing procurement relationships, monitoring contract
performance, and making changes and corrections as needed.
Close Procurements
o The process of completing each project procurement

Project Stakeholder Management

Process Name
Identify Stakeholders

Plan Stakeholder
Management

Inputs
Project Charter
Procurement documents
Enterprise environmental factors
Organizational process assets
Project management plan
Stakeholder register

Outputs
Stakeholder register

Stakeholder analysis
Expert judgment
Meetings

Stakeholder management
plan
Procurement documents
updates

Expert judgment

Enterprise environmental factors

Organizational process assets

Manage Stakeholder
Engagement

Control Stakeholder
Engagement

Issue log

Communication management plan

Change log

Change requests
Project management plan
updates
Project documents updates
Organizational process assets
updates
Work performance
information
Change requests
Project management plan
updates
Project documents updates
Organizational process assets
updates

Project management plan

Issue log
Work performance data
Project documents

Meetings
Analytical techniques
Expert judgment
Advertising

Stakeholder management plan

Organizational process assets

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negotiations
Communication
methods
Interpersonal skills
Management skills

Information
management system
Expert judgment
Meetings

Project Stakeholder Management

Includes the processes required to identify the people, groups, or organizations that could
impact or be impacted by the project, to analyze stakeholder expectations and their impact on
the project, and to develop appropriate management strategies for effectively engaging
stakeholders in project decisions and execution.

Identify Stakeholders
o The process of identifying all people or organizations could impact or be
impacted by a decision, activity, or outcome of the project; and analyzing and
documenting relevant information regarding their interests, involvement,
influence and impact on project success.
Plan Stakeholder Management
o The process of developing appropriate management strategies to effectively
engage stakeholders throughout the project life cycle
Manage Stakeholder Engagement
o The process of communicating and working with stakeholders to meet their
needs/expectations
Control Stakeholder Engagement
o The process of monitoring overall project stakeholder relationships and adjusting
strategies and plans for engaging stakeholders

You need to understand the terms and the logic relationships between the inputs, outputs and
tools& techniques. Memorizing them is not enough and will lead you nowhere.
Refer to the PMBoK 5h Edition for more details. &
Please do not hesitate to contact me anytime if you have any questions, comments, and feedbacks.
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