Capm Chapter 4

Processes and activities to define, identify, combine, unify & coordinate the various processes & project management activities within the project management process groups

Develop Project Charter, Develop Project Management Plan, Direct & Manage Project Work, Monitor & Control Project Work, Perform Integrated Change Control, Close Project or Phase

Process of developing a document that formally authorizes the existence or a project and provides the project manager with the authority to apply organizational resources to project activities

Project statement of work (SOW)

Business Case

Agreements

Enterprise environmental factors

organizational process assets

Expert Judgement

Facilitation Techniques

Project Charter

Narrative description of products, services, or results to be delivered by a project

References the following: Business need, product scope description, strategic plan

Describes the necessary information from a business standpoint to determine whether or not a project is worth the required investment

Used to define initial intentions for a project (contract, SLA, etc.)

Process of defining, preparing & coordinating all subsidiary plans & integrating them into a comprehensive project management plan

Project charter

Outputs from other processes

Enterprise environmental factors

Organizational process assets

Expert judgement

Facilitation techniques

Project Management Plan

Process of leading & performing the work defined in the project management plan & implementing approved changes to achieve the project's objectives

Project management plan

Approved change requests

Enterprise environmental factors

organizational process assets

Expert judgement

Project management information system (PMIS)

Meetings

Deliverables

Work performance data

Change requests

Project management plan updates

project documents updates

An intentional activity that realigns the performance of the project work with the project management plan

An intentional activity that ensures the future performance of the project work is aligned with the project management plan

An intentional activity to modify a nonconforming product or project component

Scope, requirements, cost, stakeholder management plans

Key Performance Indicators

Any unique & verifiable product, result, or capability to perform a service that is required to be produced to complete a process, phase, or project

Raw observations & measurements identified during activities being performed to carry out the project work

Formal proposal to modify any document, deliverable, or baseline

Could include preventative action, corrective action, defect repair, updates

Process of tracking, reviewing & reporting project work defined in the project management plan & implementing approved changes to achieve the project's objectives

Project management plan

Schedule forecasts

Cost Forecast

Validated Changes

Work performance information

Enterprise environmental factors

Organizational process assets

Expert judgement

Analytical techniques

Project Management Information System

Meetings

Change requests

Work performance reports

project management plan updates

project document updates

Monitoring includes collecting, monitoring, and distributing performance information and assessing measurements and trends to affect project improvements

Control includes determining corrective or preventive action or replanning & following up on action plans to determine whether the actions taken resolved the performance issue

Derived from progress against the schedule baseline & computes time estimate to complete (ETC)

Schedule Variance

Schedule Performance Index

Cost forecasts are derived from progress against the cost baseline & computed estimate to complete (ETC)

Cost Variance

Cost Performance Index

Budget at completion

Performance data collected from various controlling processes, analyzed in context and integrated based on relationships across areas

Failure Mode & Effect Analysis

Fault Tree Analysis

Regression analysis, grouping methods, casual analysis, root cause analysis, forecasting methods, FMEA, FTA, reserve analysis, trend analysis, earned value management (EVM), variance analysis

Part of environmental factors, provides access to automated tools such as scheduling, cost and reserve tools, performance indicators, databases, project records, and financials

physical or electronic representation of work performance information compiled in project documents, intended to generate decisions, actions, or awareness

process of reviewing all change requests; approving changes and managing changes to deliverables, organizational process assets, project documents, and the project management plan & communicating their disposition

Project management plan

Work performance reports

Change requests

Enterprise environmental factors

Organizational process assets

Expert judgement

Meetings

Change control tools

Approved change controls

Change log

Project management plan updates

Project documents updates

Formally chartered group responsible for reviewing, evaluating, approving or delaying, or rejecting changes to the project, and for recording and communicating decisions

Identification & selection of a configuration item to provide the basis for which the product configuration is defined & verified products and documents are labeled, changes are managed, and accountability is maintained

Information is recorded & reported as to when appropriate data about the configuration item should be provided

Configuration verification & configuration audits ensure the composition of a project's configuration items is correct and the corresponding changes are registered, assessed, approved, tracked, and correctly implemented

Process of finalizing all activities across all of the Project Management Process Groups to formally complete the project/phase

Project management plan

Accepted deliverables

Organizational process assets

Expert judgement

Analytical techniques

Meetings

Final product, service, or result transition

Organizational process assets updates

Historical Information & lessons learned are transferred to the lessons learned knowledge base for use by future projects or phases

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Ensure that individual processes interact to integrate related activities

The sponsoring entity

Project deliverables

Information Exchange

Brainstorming, option evaluation, or design

Decision making

A project change log tracks all changes initiated for the project and is used to track and manage all changes as they move from initiated to approved / cancelled