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CH4 PMBOK
PMP study
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Project integration management | processes and activities used to identify, define, combine, unify, and coordinate the processes and project management activities within the PM process groups |
| What activities does project integration management include? | 1) make choices about resource allocation. 2) make trade-offs on competing objectives and alternatives 3) manage interdependencies of knowledge areas |
| Project Integration Management Process | 1) develop project charter 2) dev PM plan 3) direct and manage project work 4) monitor and control project work 5) perform integrated change control 6) close project/phase |
| Develop Project Charter | make a document that formally authorizes the existence of a project; provides the PM with authority to apply resources to project activities |
| Develop Project Management plan | define, prepare, and coordinate all subsidiary plans; integrate them into comprehensive PM plan. define how the project is executed, monitored, controlled and closed |
| Direct and Manage Project Work | process of leading and performing the work defined in the PM plan; implement changes to achieve project OBJ |
| Monitor and Control Project work | track, review, and report project progress |
| Perform Integrated Change Control | process of reviewing all change requests; approve changes; manage changes to deliverables, project documents, and PM plan; communicate their disposition |
| Close Project / phase | finalize activities across all PM process groups |
| Project charter | formally initiates the project, usually authored by sponsoring entity, give PM authority to plan and execute project. not a contract since no money is exchanged in its creation |
| Project Statement of Work (SOW) | a description of products, services, or results to be delivered by a project. provided by sponsor/project initiator for internal projects. provided by customer for external projects |
| Business Need | based on a market demand, technological advance, legal requirements, gov regulation, or Env consideration |
| Product Scope Description | documents the characteristics of the product, service, or results that the project will create. also details the relationship between products, services, or results and the business need |
| Strategic Plan | document of the organization's strategic vision, goals, and objectives; usually contains a high-level mission statement |
| Business Case | the necessary information from a business standpoint to determine whether or not the project is worth the required investment. composed of the business need and cost-benefit analysis |
| agreements | used to define initial intentions for a project; usually in written form |
| Enterprise Environmental Factors | examples include gov standards, industry standards, regulations; organizational culture and structure; marketplace conditions |
| Organizational Process Assets | the standard processes, policies and definitions of an organization; templates; historical into and lessons learned knowledge base |
| Expert judgment | used to assess the inputs used to develop the project charter, provided by any group/person with specialized knowledge or training |
| corrective action | an intentional activity that realigns the performance of the project work with the project management plan |
| Preventive action | an intentional activity that ensures the future performance of the project work is aligned with the PM plan |
| Defect repair | an intentional activity to modify a nonconforming product or product component |
| Work Performance Data | raw observations and measurements identified during activities being performed to carry out the project work |
| Work Performance Information | performance data that is collected from various controlling processes, analyzed in context, and integrated based on relationships across areas |
| configuration identification | ID and selection of a configuration item to provide the basis for which the product configuration is defines and verified, products and documents are labeled, changes are managed, and accountability is maintained |
| Configuration status accounting | info is recorded and reported as to when appropriate data about the configuration item should ne provided |
| Configuration verification and audit | ensures that the composition of a project's configuration items is correct and that corresponding changes are registered, assessed, approved, tracked, and correctly implemented |