What does integration mean?
Bringing together various factors to form a whole. Combining work from all knowledge areas to ensure resources, deadlines, and the project life cycle are aligned
What does the PM do in Process Integration Mgmt?
Work with stakeholders and guide your team.
Ultimately responsible for the project - as you have to manage all of the other project management processes and oversee them, communicate them, etc.
Process Groups in Process Integration, and their main outputs
7 total
(1)Develops Project Charter and (2)PM Plan, (3+4)oversee the work defined in them, (5+6)monitor and change them as needed, (7)closing it.
What are some good birds eye view strategies to consider?
- what is the right life cycle
- picking the right development approach
- How will information be communicated
What does the Project charter do?
- Grants authority
- Formal record of project
- Links the organization to the project
What is a business case?
study that shows the value of completing the project.
What are the lifecycle types to consider for the PM Plan?
Predictive/Adaptive
What are the main components of the PM Plan?
A Management Plan for all other PM Processes except for this process, with an additional plan called “Requirements Mgmt Plan”. 10 in total.
What does the Configuration Management Plan describe
Identifies the items that will be recorded and updated so the product of the project remains consistent and operable
What is project knowledge?
Skills, experience, talent, and expertise used to achieve project objectives
What does the Manage Project Knowledge Process do?
Makes sure ALL stakeholder communicate and are informed before, during and after the project.
What are the types of knowledge?
- Explicit Knowledge - expressed in words/textbooks/storable and easy to communicate/distribute
- Tacit Knowledge
What does monitoring entail?
- Collecting, measuring, and assessing measurements/trends
- Identifying areas that need correction
What does controlling entail?
- Determining corrective/preventative actions to return the project to a healthy path
- Following up on action plans
What are change requests?
- They are used to issue expansions/adjustments on the project scope, product scope, or quality requirements
- Might mean collecting and documenting new requirements
- Impact the PM Plan, Project documents, and product deliverables
What is the purpose of integrated change control? How does the PM fit in?
- Reviewing all change requests, prioritizing and implementing them.
- PM or another person/board would be responsible for this. PM will be a facilitator if not fully in charge.
What Process Group’s input’s are change requests?
Directing and managing project work
Whare are 2 important concepts related to the Perform Integrated Change Control Process?
Configuration management
Deals with modifications made to the product or the processes used to make the product
Change Management
Changes that identify, document, approve, or reject changes to project documents, deliverables, or baselines:
What are the types of approved change requests?
Corrective, preventative, defect, repair
What roles do PM’s play when closing the project?
- If project was terminated early, engage with all stakeholders to collect info about why this happened
- If project was completed:
• Completion or exit criteria are satisfied
• Contractual agreements are complete
• Project deliverables are transferred to production or operations
• Suggestions for improvement in procedures are collected
Satisfaction of stakeholders is measured
What does the Final Report do?
look at the criteria used to evaluate the project initially, and then any variances, and how actual performance held up
