PMP Study - Project Management Knowledge Areas

Project Integration Management includes the processes and activitites needed to identify, define, combine, unify and coordinate the various processes and project management activities within the Prject Management Prcess Groups. In the project management context, integration includes characteristics of unification consolidation, articulation, and integrative actions that are crucial to project completion, successfully managing stakeholder expectations, and meeting requirements. Project Integration Managemet Processes include: Develop Project Charter, Develop Project Management Plan, Direct and Manage Project Execution, Monitor and Control Project Work, Perform Integrated Change Control, Close Project or Phase.

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. Managing the project scope is primarily concerned with defining and controlling what is and is not included in the project. Project Scope Management Processes include: Collection Requirements, Define Scope, Create WBS, Verify Scope, Control Scope.

Proejct Time Management includes the processes required to accomplish timely completion of the project. Project Time Management Processes include: Define Activities, Sequence Activities, Estimate Activity Resources, Estimate Activity Durations, Develop Schedule, Control Schedule.

Project Cost Management includes the processes involved in estimating, budgeting, and controlling costs so that the project can be completed within the approved budget. Project Coast Management processes include: Estimate Costs, Determine Budget, Control Costs.

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. Project Quality Management processes include: Plan Quality, Perform Quality Assurance, Perform Quality Control.

Project Human Resource Management includes the processes that organize, manage, and lead the project team. The project team is comprised of the people with assigned roles and responsibilities for completing the project. The Project Human Management processes include: Develop Human Resource Plan, Acquire Project Team, Develop Project Team, Manage Project Team.

Project Communications Management includes the processes required to ensure timely and appropriate generation, collection, distribution, storage, retrieval, and ultimate disposition of project information. The Project Communications Management processes include: Identify Stakeholders, Plan Communications, Distribute Information, Manage Stakeholder Expectations, Report Performance.

Project Risk Management includes 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. The Project Risk Management Processes include: Plan Risk Management, Identify Risks, Perform Qualitive Analysis, Perform Quantitative Analysis, Plan Risk Responses, Monitor and Control Risks.

Project Procurement Management includes the processes necessary to purchase or acquire products, services or results needed from outside the project team to perform the work. Project Procurement Management include sht econtract management and change control processes required to develop and administer contracts or purchase orders issued by authorized project team members. The Project Procurement Management processes include: Plan Procurements, Conduct Procurements, Administer Procurements, Close Procurements.