44 PMP Processes

Develop Project Charter: INPUTS:

Process Area: Initiating
Knowledge Area: Integrating

1. Contract
2. SOW (includes business need, scope description, strategic plan)
3. EEF
4. OPA (templates, procedures)

Develop Project Charter: TOOLS:

1. Project Selection Methods
2. Project Management Methodology
3. PMIS
4. Expert Judgement

Develop Project Charter: OUTPUTS:

1. Project Charter

Develop Preliminary Project Scope Statement INPUTS:

Knowledge Area: Scope
Process Group: Initiating

1. Project Charter
2. SOW
3. EEF
4. OPA

Develop Preliminary Project Scope Statement TOOLS:

1. PMM
2. PMIS
3. EJ

Develop Preliminary Project Scope Statement OUTPUTS:

OUTPUTS:
1. Prelimnary Project Scope Statement
Create WBS INPUTS
1. OPA
2. Project Scope Statement
3. Project Management Plan
4. Approved change requests

Develop Project Mangement Plan - INPUTS

Process: Planning
Knowledge: Integration

1. Preliminary project scope statement
2. Project management processes
3. EEF
4. OPA

Develop Project Mangement Plan - TOOLS

1. PMM
2. PMIS
3. EJ

Develop Project Mangement Plan - OUTPUTS

1. Project management plan

Scope Planning - INPUTS

Process: Planning
Knowledge: Scope

1. EEF
2. OPA
3. Project Charter
4. Preliminary Project Scope Statement
5. Project Management Plan

Scope Planning - TOOLS

1. EJ
2. Templates, Forms, Standards

Scope Planning - OUTPUTS

1. Project Scope Management Plan

Scope Definition - INPUTS

Process: Planning
Knowledge: Scope

1. OPA
2. Project Charter
3. Preliminary Project Scope Statement
4. Project scope Management Plan
5. Approved change requests

Scope Definition - TOOLS

1. Product Analysis
2. Alternatives identification
3. Expert judgment
4. Stakeholder analysis

Scope Definition - OUTPUTS

1. Project Scope Statement
2. Requested Changes
3. Project scope management plan (updates)

Create WBS - INPUTS

1. OPA
2. Project Scope Statement
3. Project Management Plan
4. Approved change requests

Create WBS - TOOLS

1. Work breakdown structure templates
2. Decomposition

Create WBS - OUTPUTS

1. Project Scope Statement (updates)
2. WBS
3. WBS dicitionary
4. Scope Baseline
5. Project Scope Management Plan (updates)
6. Requested changes

Activity Definition - INPUTS
Process: Planning
Knowledge: Time

1. EEF
2. OPA
3. Project Scope Statement
4. WBS
5. WBS Dictionary
6. Project management plan

Activity Definition TOOLS

1. Decomposition
2. Templates
3. Rolling Wave Planning
4. Planning component
5. Control account
6. Planning package

Activity Definition - OUTPUTS

1. Activity list
2. Activity attributes
3. Milestone list
4. Requested changes

Activity Sequencing - INPUTS
Process: Planning
Knowledge: Time

1. Project scope statement
2. Activity list
3. Activity attributes
4. Milestone list
5. Approved change requests

Activity Sequencing - TOOLS

1. Precedence Diagramming Method (PDM)
2. Arrow diagramming method
3. schedule network templates
4. dependency determination
5. Applying lags and leads

Activity Sequencing - OUTPUTS

1. Project schedule network diagrams.
2. Activity list (updates)
3. Activity attributes (updates)
4. Requested changes

Activity Resource Estimating - INPUTS
Process: Planning
Knowledge: Time

EEF
OPA
Activity list
Activity attributes
Resource availability
PMP

Activity Resource Estimating - TOOLS

1. EJ
2. Alternatives analysis
3. Published estimating data
4. Project management software
5. Bottom-up estimating

Activity Resource Estimating - OUTPUTS

1. Activity resource requirements
2. Activity attributes (updates)
3. Resource breakdown structure
4. Resource calendars (updates)
5. Requested changes

Activity Duration Estimating - INPUTS
Process: Planning
Knowldege: Time

1. EEF
2. OPA
3. Project scope statement
4. Activity list
5. Activity attributes
6. Resource calendars
7. Project management plan

Activity Duration Estimating - TOOLS

1. Expert Judgment
2. Analogous estimating
3. Parametric estimating
4. Three-point estimates
5. Reserve analysis

Activity Duration Estimating - OUTPUTS

1. Activity duration estimation
2. Activity attributes (updates)

Schedule Development - INPUTS

Process: Planning
Knowledge: Time

1. OPA
2. Project scope statement
3. Activity list
4. Activity attributes
5. Project schedule network diagrams
6. Activity resource requirements
7. Resource calendars
8. Activity duration estimates
9. Project management plan (risk register)

Schedule Development - TOOLS

1. Schedule network analysis
2. Critical path method
3. Schedule compression
4. What-if scenario analysis
5. Resource leveling
6. Critical chain method
7. Project management software
8. Schedule model
9. Apply calendars
10. Adjust leads and lags

Schedule Development - OUTPUTS

1. Project schedule
2. Schedule model data
3. Schedule baseline
4. Resource requirements (updates)
5. Activity attributes (updates)
6. Project calendar (updates)
7. Requested changes
8. Project management plan (updates, including schedule management plan)

Cost Estimating - INPUTS

Process: Planning
Knowledge: Cost

1. EEF
2. OPA
3. Project scope statement
4. WBS
5. WBS dictionary
6. Project management plan (schedule & staffing mgmt plan, risk register)

Cost Estimating - TOOLS

1. Analogous estimating
2. Determine resource cost rates
3. Bottom-up estimating
4. Parametric estimating
5. PMS
6. Vendor bid analysis
7. Reserve analysis
8. Cost of quality

Cost Estimating - OUTPUTS

1. Activity cost estimates
2. Activity cost estimate supporting detail (description, basis of estimate, constraint, ROM)
3. Requested changes
4. Cost management plan (updates)

Cost Budgeting - INPUTS

Process: Planning
Knowledge: Cost

1. Project Scope Statement
2. WBS
3. WBS Dictionary
4. Activity cost estimates
5. Activity cost estimate supporting detail
6. Project schedule
7. Resource calendars
8. Contract
9. Cost management plan

Cost Budgeting - TOOLS

1. Cost aggregation
2. Reserve analysis
3. Parametric estimating
4. Funding limit reconciliation

Cost Budgeting - OUTPUTS

1. Cost baseline
2. Project funding requriements
3. Cost management plan (updates)
4. Requested changes

Quality Planning - INPUTS

Process: Planning
Knowledge: Quality

1. EEF
2. OPA
3. Project scope statement
4. Project management plan

Quality Planning - TOOLS

1. Cost/benefit analysis
2. Benchmarking
3. Design of experiments
4. Cost of quality
5. Additional quality planning tools

Quality Planning - OUTPUTS

1. Quality management plan
2. Quality metrics
3. Quality checklists
4. Process improvement plan(steps to analyze processes to identify waste & non-value added items)
5. Quality baseline
6. Project management plan (updates)

Human Resource Planning - INPUTS
Process: Planning
Knowledge: HR

1. EEF (organizational, technical, interpersonal, logistical, political)
2. OPA (templates, checklists)
3. Project management plan(activity resource requirements)

Human Resource Planning - TOOLS

1. Organizational charts and position descriptions
2. Networking
3. Organizational Theory

Human Resource Planning - OUTPUTS

1. Roles and responsibilities (role, authority, responsibility, competencies required)
2. Project organization charts
3. Staffing management plan

Communications Planning INPUTS

Process: Planning
Knowledge: Communications

1. EEF
2. OPA
3. Project scope statement
4. Project management plan

Communications Planning - TOOLS

1. Communications requirements analysis
2. Communications technology

Communications Planning - OUTPUTS

1. Communication management plan [provides: (i)stakeholder requirements (ii)info to be communicated (iii)responsibility (iv)methods (v) escalation vi)updating]

Risk Management Planning - INPUTS

Process: Planning
Knowledge: Risk

1. EEF
2. OPA
3. Project scope statement
4. Project management plan

Risk Management Planning - TOOLS

1. Planning meetings

Risk Management Planning - OUTPUTS

1. Risk management plan

Risk Identification - INPUTS

Process: Planning
Knowledge: Risk

1. EEF
2. OPA
3. Project scope statement
4. Risk management plan
5. Project management plan

Risk Identification - TOOLS

1. Documentation review
2. Info gathering
- brainstorming
- Delphi
- Interviewing
- Root cause identification
- SWOTS
3. Checklists
4. Assumptions analysis
5. Diagramming techniques
- cause and effect
- system or process flow charts
- influence diagrams

Risk Identification - OUTPUTS

1. Risk register (includes list of risks, potential responses, root causes, triggers, and updated risk categories)

Qualitative Risk Analysis - INPUTS

Process: Planning
Knowledge: Risk

1. OPA
2. Project scope statement
3. Risk managementplan
4. Risk register

Qualitative Risk Analysis - TOOLS

1. Risk probability and impact assessment
2. Probability and impact matrix

Qualitative Risk Analysis - OUTPUTS

1. Risk register(updates)

Quantitative Risk Analysis - INPUTS

Process: Planning
Knowledge: Risk

1. OPA
2. Project scope statement
3. Risk management plan
4. Risk register
5. Project management plan

Quantitative Risk Analysis - TOOLS

1. Data gathering and representation techniques
- Interviewing
- Probability Distributions
- EJ
2. Quantitative risk analysis and modeling techniques
- Sensitivity Analysis
- Expected monetary analysis
- Decision tree analysis

Quantitative Risk Analysis OUTPUTS

1. Risk register(updates) includes 1)probabilistic analysis of project for schedule & cost outcomes 2)prioritized list of quantified risks 3)trends in quantitative risk results.

Risk Response Planning - INPUTS

Process: Planning
Knowledge: Risk

1. Risk management plan
2. Risk register

Risk Response Planning - TOOLS

1. Strategies for negative Risks or threats
2. Strategies for positive risks or opportunities
3. Strategies for both threats and opportunities
4. Contingent response strategy

Risk Response Planning - OUTPUTS

1. Risk register(updates)
2. Project management plan(updates)
3. Risk-related contractual agreements

Plan Purchases and Aquisitions - INPUTS

Process: Planning
Knowledge: Procurement

1. EEF
2. OPA
3. Project scope statement
4. WBS
5. WBS dictionary
6. Project management plan (risk regiter, risk related contractual agreements, resouce requirements, project schedule, activity cost estimates, cost baseline)

Plan Purchases and Aquisitions - TOOLS

1. Make or buy analysis
2. Expert Judgement
3. Contract Types

Plan Purchases and Aquisitions - OUTPUTS

1. Procurement Management Plan
2. Contract SOW
3. Make of buy decisions
4. Requested changes

Plan Contracting - INPUTS
Process: Planning
Knowledge: Procurement

1. Procurement management plan
2. Contract statement of work
3. Make or buy decisions
4. Project management plan (risk register, risk-related contractual agreements, resource requirements, project schedule, activity cost estimates, cost baseline)

Plan Contracting - TOOLS

1. Standard forms
2. Expert judgment

Plan Contracting - OUTPUTS

1. Procurement documents
2. Evaluation criteria (can include cost, technical capability, financial capacity, business type, references, etc…)
3. Contract statement of work (updates)

Direct and Manage Project Execution
Knowledge Area: Integration
Process Group: Executing

1. Project management plan
2. Approved corrective actions
3. Approved preventive actions
4. Approved change requests
5. Approved defect repair
6. Validated defect report
7. Administrative closure procedure

Direct and Manage Project - TOOLS

1. PMM
2. PMIS

Direct and Manage Project - OUTPUTS

1. Deliverables
2. Requested changes
3. Implemented change requests
4. Implemented corrective actions
5. Implemented preventative actions
6. Implemented defect repair
7. Work performance information (status, budget, % complete)

Perform Quality Assurance - INPUTS

Knowledge Area: Quality
Process Group: Executing

1. Quality management plan
2. Quality metrics
3. Process improvement plan
4. Work performance information
5. Approved change requests
6. Quality control measurements
7. Implemented change requests
8. Implemented corrective actions
9. Implemented defect repair
10. Implemented preventative actions

Perform Quality Assurance - TOOLS

1. Quality planning tools and techniques
2. Quality audits
3. Process Analysis
4. Quality control tools and techniques

Perform Quality Assurance - OUTPUTS

1. Requested changes
2. Recommended corrective actions
3. Process analysis
4. Quality control tools and techniques

Acquire Project Team - INPUTS

Knowledge Area: HR
Process Group: Executing

1. EEF
2. OPA
3. Roles and responsibilities
4. Project organization charts
5. Staffing management plan

Acquire Project Team - TOOLS

1. Pre-assignment
2. Negotiation
3. Acquisition
4. Virtual teams

Acquire Project Team - OUTPUTS

1. Project staff assignments
2. Resource availability
3. Staffing management plan (updates)

Develop Project Team - INPUTS
Knowledge Area: HR
Process Group: Executing

1. Project staff assignments
2. Staffing management plan
3. Resource availability

Develop Project Team - TOOLS

1. General management skills
2. Training
3. Team-building activities
4. Ground rules
5. Co-location (tight matrix)
6. Recognition and rewards

Develop Project Team - OUTPUTS

1. Team Performance Assessments

Information Distribution - INPUTS
Knowledge Area: Communication
Process Group: Executing

1. Communications management plan

Information Distribution - TOOLS

1. Communications Skills
2. Information gathering and retrieval systems
3. Information distribution methods
4. Lessons learned process

Information Distribution - OUTPUTS

1. OPA
2. Requested changes

Request Seller Responses - INPUTS
Knowledge Area: Procurement
Process Group: Executing

1. OPA
2. Procurement management plan
3. Procurement documents

Request Seller Responses - TOOLS

1. Bid Advertising
2. Bidder Conference
3. Develop Qualified Sellers List

Request Seller Responses - OUTPUTS

1. Qualified sellers list
2. Procurement document package
3. Proposals

Select the Seller - INPUTS Knowledge Area: Procurement
Process Group: Executing

1. OPA
2. Procurement management plan
3. Evaluation criteria
4. Procurement document package
5. Proposals
6. Qualified sellers list
7. Project management plan (risk register, risk-related contractual agreements, resource requirements, project schedule, activity cost estimates, cost baseline)

Select the Seller - TOOLS

1. Weighting system
2. Independent estimates
3. Screening system
4. Contract negotiation
5. Seller rating system
6. Expert judgment and proposal evaluation system

Select the Seller - OUTPUTS

1. Selected sellers
2. Contract
3. Contract management plan
4. Resource availability
5. Procurement management plan (updates)
6. Requested changes

Monitor and Control Project Work - INPUTS

Process: Monitor and Control
Knowledge: Integration

1. Project management plan
2. Work performance information
3. Rejected change requests

Monitor and Control Project Work - TOOLS

1. PMM
2. PMIS
3. EJ
4. Earned Value Mangement

Monitor and Control Project Work - OUTPUTS

1. Recommended corrective actions
2. Recommended preventative actions
3. Forecasts
4. Recommended defect repair
5. Requested changes

Integrated Change Control - INPUTS

Process: Monitoring and Controling
Knowledge: Integration

1. Project Management Plan
2. Requested Changes
3. Work Performance Information
4. Recomended Preventetive Actions
5. Recommended Corrective Actions
6. Recommended Defect Repair
7. Deleverables

Integrated Change Control - TOOLS

1. PMM
2. PMIS
3. EJ

Scope Verification - TOOLS

1. Inspection

Integrated Change Control - OUTPUTS

1. Approved change requests
2. Rejected change requests
3. Project management plan (updates)
4. Project scope management (updates)
5. Approved corrective actions
6. Approved preventative actions
7. Approved defect repair
8. Validated defect repair
9. Deliverables

Scope Verification - INPUTS

Process: M&C
Knowledge: Scope

1. Project scope statement
2. WBS dictionary
3. Project scope management plan
5. Deliverables

Scope Control - TOOLS

1. Change Control System
2. Vaiance Analysis
3. Replanning
4. Configuration Management System

Scope Verification - OUTPUTS

OUTPUTS:
1. Project scope statement (updates)
2. WBS dictionary
3. Project Scope Management
4. Deliverables

Scope Control - INPUTS

Process: M&C
Knowledge: Scope

1. Project scope statement
2. WBS
3. WBS dictionary
4. Project scope management plan
5. Performance reports
6. Approved change requests
7. Work performance information

Scope Control - OUTPUTS

1. Project scope statement (updates)
2. WBS (updates)
3. WBS dictionary (updates)
4. Scope baseline (updates)
5. Requested changes
6. Recommended corrective action
7. OPA (updates)
8. Project Management Plan (updates)

Schedule Control - TOOLS

1. Progress Reporting
2. Scheduled change control system
3. Performance Measurement
4. PMS
5. Variance Analysis
6. Schedule Comparison Bar Charts

Schedule Control - OUTPUTS

1. Schedule model data (updates)
2. Schedule baseline (updates)
3. Performance measurements
4. Requested changes
5. Recommended corrective actions
6. OPA
7. Activity list (updates)
8. Activity attributes (updates)
9. Project management plan (updates)

Schedule Control - INPUTS

Process: M&C
Knowledge: Time

1. Schedule management plan
2. Schedule baseline
3. Performance reports
4. Approved change requests

Cost Control - INPUTS

Process: M&C
Knowledge: Cost

1. Cost baseline
2. Project funding requirements
3. Performance reports
4. Approved change requests
5. Project management plan

Cost Control - TOOLS

1. Cost control system
2. Performance measurement analysis
3. Forecasting
4. Project performance reviews
5. PMS
6. Variance Management

Cost Control - OUTPUTS

1. Cost estimate (updates)
2. Cost baseline (updates)
3. Performance measurements
4. Forecasted completion
5. Requested changes
6. Recommended corrective actions
7. Organizational process assets (updates)
8. Project management plan (updates)

Perform Quality Control - INPUTS

Process: M&C
Knowledge: Quality

1. Quality management plan
2. Quality metrics
3. Quality checklists
4. OPA
5. Work performance information
6. Approved change requests
7. Deliverables

Manage Project Team - OUTPUTS

1. Requested changes
2. Recommended corrective actions
3. Recommended preventative actions
4. OPA (updates)
5. Project management plan (updates)

Perform Quality Control - TOOLS

1. Cause and effect diagrams 2. Control charts
3. Flow charts
4. Histograms
5. Pareto charts
6. Run charts
7. Scatter diagram
8. Statistical sampling
9. Inspection
10. Defect repair review

Perform Quality Control - OUTPUTS

1. Quality control measurements
2. Validated defect repair
3. Quality baseline (updates)
4. Recommended corrective actions
5. Recommended preventative actions
6. Requested changes
7. Recommended defect repair
8. OPA
9. Validated deliverables
10. Project management plan (updates)

Performance Reporting - INPUTS

Process: M&C
Knowledge: Communications

1. Work performance information
2. Performance measurements
3. Forecasted completion
4. Quality control measurements
5. Project management plan (performance measurement baseline)
6. Approved change requests
7. Deliverables

Performance Reporting - TOOLS

1. Presentation tools
2. Performance information gathering and compilation
3. Status review meetings
4. Time reporting systems
5. Cost reporting systems

Manage Project Team - INPUTS

Process: M&C
Knowledge: HR

• OPA
• Project staff assignments
• Roles and responsibilities
• Project organizational charts
• Staffing management plan
• Team performance assessment
• Work performance information
• Performance reports

Manage Project Team - TOOLS

1. Observations and conversation
2. Project performance appraisals
3. Conflict Management
4. Issue Log

Performance Reporting - OUTPUTS

1. Performance reports
2. Forecasts
3. Requested changes
4. Recommended corrective actions
5. OPA

Manage Stakeholders INPUTS

1. Communications management plan
2. OPA
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Manage Stakeholders TOOLS

1. Communications Methods
2. Issue Logs

Manage Stakeholders OUTPUTS

1. Communications management plan
2. OPA

OUTPUTS:
1. Resolved issues
2. Approved change requests
3. Approved corrective actions
4. OPA
5. Project management plans (updates)

Risk Monitoring and Control - INPUTS

Process: M&C
Knowledge: Risk

1. Risk management plan
2. Risk register
3. Approved change requests
4. Work performance information
5. Performance reports

Risk Monitoring and Control - TOOLS

1. Risk reassesment
2. Risk Audits
3. Variance and trend analysis
4. Technical performance measurement
5. Reserve analysis
6. Status Meetings

Risk Monitoring and Control - OUTPUTS

1. Risk register (updates)
2. Requested changes
3. Recommended corrective actions
4. Recommended preventative actions
5. OPA
6. Project management plan (updates)

Contract Administration - INPUTS

Process: M&C
Knowledge: Procurement

1. Contract
2. Contract management plan
3. Selected sellers
4. Performance reports
5. Approved change requests
6. Work performance information

Contract Administration - TOOLS

1. Contract change control system
2. Inspections and audits
3. Performance reporting
4. Payment system
5. Claims administration
6. Records management system
7. IT tools

Contract Administration - OUTPUTS

1. Contract documentation
2. Requested changes
3. Recommended corrective actions
4. OPA
5. Project management plan (updates)

Close Project - INPUTS

Process: Closing
Knowledge: Integration

1. Project management plan
2. Contract documentation
3. EEF
4. OPA
5. Work performance information
6. Deliverables

Close Project - TOOLS

1. PMM
2. PMIS
3. EJ

Close Project - OUTPUTS

1. Administrative closure procedure
2. Contract closure procedure
3. Final product, service or result
4. OPA (updates)

Contract Closure - INPUTS

Process: Procurement
Knowledge: Closing

1. Procurement management plan
2. Contract management plan
3. Contract documentation
4. Contract closure procedure

Contract Closure - TOOLS

1, Procurement audits
2. Record management system

Contract Closure - OUTPUTS

1. Closed contracts
2. OPA (update contract file, deliverable acceptance, and lessons learned documentation)