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Process Groups Project Management Institute, Inc.

Initiating Planning Executing Monitoring and Controlling Closing

4.1 Develop Project Charter 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work 4.5 Monitor and Control Project work 4.7 Close Project or Phase
Integration 4.4 Manage Project Knowledge 4.6 Perform Integrated Change Control
5.1 Plan Scope Management 5.5 Validate Scope
5.2 Collect Requirements 5.6 Control Scope
Scope 5.3 Define Scope
5.4 Create WBS
6.1 Plan Schedule Management 6.6 Control Schedule
6.2 Define Activities
Schedule 6.3 Sequence Activities
6.4 Estimate Activity Durations
6.5 Develop Schedule (*Check resource availability before Publish)
7.1 Plan Cost Management 7.4 Control Costs
Cost 7.2 Estimate Costs
7.3 Determine Budget
Quality 8.1 Plan Quality Management 8.2 Manage Quality 8.3 Control Quality
9.1 Plan Resource Management 9.3 Acquire Resources 9.6 Control Resources
Resource 9.2 Estimate Activity Resources 9.4 Develop Team
9.5 Manage Team
Communication 10.1 Plan Communications Management 10.2 Manage Communications 10.3 Monitor Communications
Risk 11.1 Plan Risk Management 11.6 Implement Risk Responses 11.7 Monitor Risks
11.2 Identify Risks
11.3 Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
11.4 Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis
11.5 Plan Risk Responses
Procurement 12.1 Plan Procurement Management 12.2 Conduct Procurements 12.3 Control Procurements
Stakeholder 13.1 Identify Stakeholders 13.2 Plan Stakeholder Engagement 13.3 Manage Stakeholder Engagement
13.4 Monitor Stakeholder Engagement
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Integration Project Management Institute, Inc.
INPUTS TOOLS OUTPUTS
Develop Project Charter
1. Business Documents 1. Expert Judgement 1. Project charter
• Business Case 2. Data Gathering 2. Assumption Log
• Benefits management plan • Brainstorming
2. Agreements • Focus Groups
3. Enterprise environmental factors • Interviews
4. Organizational process assets 3. Interpersonal & Team Skills
• Conflict Management
• Facilitation
• Meeting Management
4. Meetings
Develop Project Management Plan
1. Project Charter 1. Expert Judgement 1. Project management plan
2. Outputs from other processes 2. Data Gathering
3. Enterprise environmental factors • Brainstorming
4. Organizational process assets • Checklists
• Focus Groups
• Interviews
3. Interpersonal & Team Skills
• Conflict Management
• Facilitation
• Meeting Management
4. Meetings
Direct and Manage Project Work
1. Project management plan 1. Expert Judgement 1. Deliverables
• Any component 2. Project management information system (PMIS) 2. Work performance data
2. Project documents 3. Meetings 3. Issue Log
• Change Log 4. Change requests
• Lessons Learnt Register 5. Project management plan updates
• Milestone List • Any component
• Project Communications 6. Project document updates
• Project Schedule • Activity List
• Requirements Tracebility Matrix • Assumption Log
• Risk Register • Lessons Learnt Register
• Risk Report • Requirements Documentation
3. Approved change requests • Risk Register
4. Enterprise environmental factors • Stakeholder Register
5. Organizational process assets 7. Organization Process Assets updates
 Manage Project Knowledge
1. Project management plan 1. Expert Judgement 1. Lessons Learnt Register
• Any component 2. Knowledge management 2. Project management plan updates
2. Project documents 3. Information management • Any component
• Lessons Learnt Register 4. Interpersonal & Team skills 3. Organization Process Assets updates
• Project team assignments • Active Listening
• RBS - Resource Breakdown structure • Facilitation
• Source selection criteria • Leadership
• Stakeholder Register • Networking
• Political awareness
3. Deliverables
4. Enterprise environmental factors
5. Organizational process assets
Monitor and Control Project Work
1. Project management plan 1. Expert Judgement 1. Work Performance Reports
• Any component 2. Data Analysis 2. Change requests
2. Project documents • Alternative Analysis 3. Project Plan updates
• Assumption Log • Cost-Benefit Analysis • Any component
• Basis of estimates • Earned Value Analysis 4. Project document Updates
• Cost forecasts • Root Cause Analysis • Cost forecasts
• Issue Log • Trend Analysis • Issue Log
• Lessons Learnt Register • Variance Analysis • Lessons Learnt Register
• Milestone Lists 3. Decision Making • Risk register
• Quality report 4. Meetings • Schedule forecasts
• Risk register
• Risk reports
• Schedule forecasts

3. Work Performance Information

4. Agreements
5. Enterprise environmental factors
6. Organizational process assets
Perform Integrated Change Control
1. Project management plan 1. Expert Judgement 1. Approved change requests
• Any component 2. Change Control tools 2.Project management plan updates
2. Project documents 3. Data Analysis • Any component
• Assumption Log • Alternative Analysis 3. Project document updates
• Basis of estimates • Cost-Benefit Analysis • Change Log
• Cost forecasts 4. Decision Making
• Issue Log • Voting
• Lessons Learnt Register • Autocratic decision making
• Milestone Lists • Multi-criteria decision analysis
• Quality report 5. Meetings
• Risk register
• Risk reports
• Schedule forecasts

3. Work Performance Information

4. Agreements
5. Enterprise environmental factors
6. Organizational process assets
 Close Project or Phase
1. Project Charter 1. Expert Judgement 1. Project document updates
2. Project management plan 2. Data Analysis • Lessons learnt register
• All components • Document Analysis 2. Final product, service or result transition
3. Project documents • Regression Analysis 3. Final report
• Assumption Log • Trend Analysis 4. Organizational process assets updates
• Basis of estimates • Variance Analysis
• Change Log 3. Meetings
• Issue Log
• Lessons Learnt Register
• Milestone Lists
• Project Communications
• Quality control measurements
• Quality reports
• Requirements Documentation
• Risk Register
• Risk reports
4. Accepted Deliverables
5. Business Documents
• Business Case
• Benefits management plan
6. Agreements
7. Procurement documentation
8. Organizational process assets
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Scope Project Management Institute, Inc.
INPUTS TOOLS OUTPUTS
Plan Scope Management
1. Project charter 1. Expert judgment 1. Scope management plan
2. Project management plan 2. Data Analysis 2. Requirements management plan
• Quality Management plan • Alternatives Analysis
• Project Lifecycle Description 3. Meetings
• Development Approach
3. Enterprise enviromental factors
4. Organizational process assets
Collect Requirements
1. Project charter 1. Expert Judgement 1. Requirements documentation
2. Project management plan 2. Data Gathering 2. Requirements traceability matrix
• Scope management plan • Brainstorming
• Requirements management plan • Focus Groups
• Stakeholder engagement plan • Interviews
3. Project documents • Questionaire & surveys
• Assumption Log • Benchmarking
• Lessons Learnt Register 3. Data Analysis
• Stakeholder register • Document Analysis
4. Business Documents 4. Decision Making
• Business Case • Voting
5. Agreements • Multi-criteria decision analysis
6. Enterprise enviromental factors 5. Data Representation
7. Organizational process assets • Affinity Diagram
• Mind mapping
6. Interpersonal & Team Skills
• Nominal Group Technique
• Facilitation
• Observation/conversation
7. Context diagram
8. Prototyping
 Define Scope
1. Project charter 1. Expert Judgement 1. Project scope statement
2. Project management plan 2. Data Analysis 2. Project document updates
• Scope management plan • Alternatives Analysis • Assumption Log
3. Project documents 3. Decision Making • Requirements documentation
• Assumption Log • Multi-criteria decision analysis • Requirements Traceability matrix
• Requirements documentation 4. Interpersonal & Team Skills • Stakeholder register
• Risk register • Facilitation
4. Enterprise enviromental factors 5. Product Analysis
5. Organizational process assets
Create WBS
1. Project management plan 1. Expert Judgement 1. Scope baseline
• Scope management plan 2. Decomposition 2. Project document updates
2. Project documents • Assumption Log
• Project scope statement • Requirements documentation
• Requirements documentation
3. Enterprise enviromental factors
4. Organizational process assets
Validate Scope
1. Project management plan 1. Inspection 1. Accepted deliverables
• Scope management plan 2. Decisionn making 2. Change requests
• Requirements management plan • Voting 3. Work performance information
2. Project documents 4. Project documents updates
• Lessons Learnt Register • Lessons Learnt Register
• Quality reports • Requirements documentation
• Requirements documentation • Requirements Traceability matrix
• Requirements Traceability matrix
3. Verified deliverables
4. Work Performance Data
Control Scope
1. Project management plan 1. Data Analysis 1. Work Performance Information
• Scope management plan • Trend Analysis 2. Change requests
• Requirements management plan • Variance Analysis 3. Project management plan updates
• Change management plan • Scope management plan
• Configuration management plan • Scope baseline
• Scope baseline • Schedule baseline
• Performance measurement baseline • Cost baseline
2. Project documents • Performance measurement baseline
• Lessons Learnt Register 4. Project documents updates
• Requirements documentation • Lessons Learnt Register
• Requirements Traceability matrix • Requirements documentation
3. Work Performance Data • Requirements Traceability matrix
4. Organizational process assets
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INPUTS TOOLS OUTPUTS
Plan Schedule Management
1. Project Charter 1. Expert Judgement 1. Schedule Management plan
2. Project mangement plan 2. Data Analysis
3. Enterprise enviromental factors 3. Meetings
4. Organizational process assets
Define Activites
1. Project mangement plan 1. Expert Judgement 1. Activity List
2. Enterprise enviromental factors 2. Decomposition 2. Activity attributes
3. Organizational process assets 3. Rolling wave planning 3. Milestone list
4. Meeting 4. Change requests
5. Project management plan updates
Sequence Activities
1. Project mangement plan 1. Precedence diagramming method 1. Project Schedule network diagram
2. Project documents 2. Dependency determination & integration 2. Project document updates
3. Enterprise enviromental factors 3. Leads and Lags
4. Organizational process assets 4. Project management information system (PMIS)
Estimate Activity Durations
1. Project mangement plan 1. Expert Judgement 1. Duration Estimates
2. Project documents 2. Analogous estimating 2. Basis of estimates
3. Enterprise enviromental factors 3. Parametric estimating 3. Project document updates
4. Organizational process assets 4. Three Point estimating
5. Bottom-up estimating
6. Data Analysis
7. Decision marking
8. Meetings
Develop Schedule
1. Project mangement plan 1. Schedule network analysis 1. Schedule baseline
2. Project documents 2. Critical path method 2. Project schedule
3. Agreements 3. Resource optimization techniques 3. Schedule data
4. Enterprise enviromental factors 4. Data Analysis 4. Project calendars
5. Organizational process assets 5. Leads and lags 5. Change requests
6. Schedule compression 6. Project management plan updates
7. Project management information system (PMIS) 7. Project documents updates
8. Agile release planning
Control Schedule
1. Project mangement plan 1. Data analysis 1. Work Performance Information
2. Project documents 2. Critical path method 2. Schedule forecasts
3. Work Performance Data 3. Project management information system (PMIS) 3. Change requests
4. Organizational process assets 4. Resource optimization techniques 4. Project management plan updates
5. Leads and lags 5. Project documents updates
6. Schedule compression
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Cost Project Management Institute, Inc.
INPUTS TOOLS OUTPUTS
Plan Cost Management
1. Project charter 1. Expert judgment 1. Cost management plan
2. Project management plan 2. Data Analysis
3. Enterprise environmental factors 3. Meetings
4. Organizational process assets
Estimate Costs
1. Project management plan 1. Expert Judgement 1. Cost estimates
2. Project documents 2. Analogous estimating 2. Basis of estimates
3. Enterprise environmental factors 3. Parametric estimating 3. Project document updates
4. Organizational process assets 4. Three Point estimating
5. Bottom-up estimating
6. Data Analysis
7. Decision marking
8. PMIS
Determine Budget
1. Project mangement plan 1. Expert judgment 1. Cost baseline
2. Project documents 2. Cost aggregation 2. Project funding requirements
3. Business documents 3. Reserve analysis 3. Project document updates
4. Agreements 4. Historical information review
5. Enterprise enviromental factors 5. Funding limit reconcillation
6. Organizational process assets 6. Financing

Control Costs
1. Project mangement plan 1. Expert judgment 1. Work Performance Information
2. Project documents 2. Data Analysis 2. Cost forecasts
3. Project funding requirements 3. To complete performance index (TCPI) 3. Change requests
4. Work performance data 4. Project management information system (PMIS) 4. Project management plan updates
5. Organizational process assets 5. Project documents updates
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Quality Project Management Institute, Inc.
INPUTS TOOLS OUTPUTS
Plan Quality Management
1. Project Charter 1. Expert Judgement 1. Quality management plan
2. Project management plan 2. Data Gathering 2. Quality metrics
3. Project documents 3. Data Analysis 3. Project management plan updates
4. Enterprise enviromental factors 4. Decision making 4. Project documents updates
5. Organizational process assets 5. Data representation
6. Test and Inspection planning
7. Meetings
Manage Quality
1. Project management plan 1. Data Gathering 1. Quality reports
2. Project documents 2. Data Analysis 2. Test and evaluation documents
3. Organizational process assets 3. Decision making 3. Change requests
4. Data representation 4. Project management plan updates
5. Audits 5. Project documents updates
6. Design for X
7. Problem Solving
8. Quality improvement methods
Control Quality
1. Project management plan 1. Data Gathering 1. Quality control measurements
2. Project documents 2. Data Analysis 2. Verified deliverables
3. Approved Change requests 3. Inspection 3. Work performance information
4. Deliverables 4. Testing/product evaluations 4. Change requests
5. Work performance data 5. Data representation 5. Project management plan updates
6. Enterprise enviromental factors 6. Meetings 6. Project document updates
7. Organizational process assets
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Resource Project Management Institute, Inc.
INPUTS TOOLS OUTPUTS
Plan Resource Management
1. Project Charter 1. Expert Judgement 1. Resource management plan
2. Project management plan 2. Data representation 2. Team Charter
3. Project documents 3. Organizational theory 3. Project documents updates
4. Enterprise enviromental factors 4. Meetings
5. Organizational process assets
Estimate Activity Resources
1. Project management plan 1. Expert Judgement 1. Resource Documents
2. Project documents 2. Bottom-up estimating 2. Basis of estimates
3. Enterprise enviromental factors 3. Analogous estimating 3. Resource breakdown structure (RBS)
4. Organizational process assets 4. Parametric estimating 4. Project document updates
5. Data Analysis
6. PMIS
7. Meetings
Acquire Resources
1. Project management plan 1. Decision making 1. Project resource assignments
2. Project documents 2. Interpersonal and team skills 2. Project team assignments
3. Enterprise enviromental factors 3. Pre-assignments 3. Resource calenders
4. Organizational process assets 4. Virtual teams 4. Change requests
5. Project management plan updates
6. Project documents updates
7. Enterprise environmental factors updates
8. Organizational process assets updates
Develop Team
1. Project management plan 1. Colocation 1. Team performance assessments
2. Project documents 2. Virtual teams 2. Change requests
3. Enterprise enviromental factors 3. Communication technology 3. Project management plan updates
4. Organizational process assets 4. Interpersonal and team skills 4. Project documents updates
5. Recognition and rewards 5. Enterprise environmental factors updates
6. Training 6. Organizational process assets updates
7. Individual and team assessments
8. Meetings
Manage Team
1. Project management plan 1. Interpersonal and team skills 1. Change requests
2. Project documents 2. PMIS 2. Project management plan updates
3. Work performance reports 3. Project documents updates
4. Team performance assessments 4. Enterprise environmental factors updates
5. Enterprise enviromental factors
6. Organizational process assets
Control Resources
1. Project management plan 1. Data Analysis 1. Work Performance Information
2. Project documents 2. Problem Solving 2. Change requests
3. Work performance data 3. Interpersonal and team skills 3. Project management plan updates
4. Agreements 4. PMIS 4. Project documents updates
5. Organizational process assets
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Communications Project Management Institute, Inc.
INPUTS TOOLS OUTPUTS
Plan Communications Management
1. Project Charter 1. Expert Judgement 1. Communication management plan
2. Project management plan 2. Communication requirements analysis 2. Project management plan updates
3. Project documents 3. Communication technology 3. Project document updates
4. Enterprise enviromental factors 4. Communication models
5. Organizational process assets 5. Communication methods
6. Interpersonal and team skills
7. Data representation
8. Meetings
Manage Communications
1. Project management plan 1. Communication technology 1. Project communications
2. Project documents 2. Communication methods 2. Project management plan updates
3. Work performance reports 3. Communication skills 3. Project document updates
4. Enterprise enviromental factors 4. PMIS 4. Organizational process assets updates
5. Organizational process assets 5. Project reporting
6. Interpersonal and team skills
7. Meetings
Monitor Communications
1. Project management plan 1. Expert Judgement 1. Work Performance Information
2. Project documents 2. PMIS 2. Change requests
3. Work performance data 3. Data Analysis 3. Project management plan updates
4. Enterprise enviromental factors 4. Interpersonal and team skills 4. Project documents updates
5. Organizational process assets 5. Meetings
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Risk Project Management Institute, Inc.
INPUTS TOOLS OUTPUTS
Plan Risk Management
1. Project Charter 1. Expert judgment 1. Risk management plan
2. Project management plan 2. Data Analysis
3. Project documents 3. Meetings
4. Enterprise enviromental factors
5. Organizational process assets
Identify Risks
1. Project mangement plan 1. Expert judgment 1. Risk register
2. Project documents 2. Data Gathering 2. Risk report
3. Agreements 3. Data Analysis 3. Project documents updates
4. Procurement documentation 4. Interpersonal and team skills
5. Enterprise enviromental factors 5. Prompt Lists
6. Organizational process assets 6. Meetings
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
1. Project mangement plan 1. Expert judgment 1. Project documents updates
2. Project documents 2. Data Gathering
3. Enterprise enviromental factors 3. Data Analysis
4. Organizational process assets 4. Interpersonal and team skills
5. Risk categorization
6. Data representation
7. Meetings
 Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis
1. Project mangement plan 1. Expert judgment 1. Project documents updates
2. Project documents 2. Data Gathering
3. Enterprise enviromental factors 3. Interpersonal and team skills
4. Organizational process assets 4. Representations of uncertainity
5. Data Analysis

Plan Risk Responses

1. Project mangement plan 1. Expert judgment 1. Change requests
2. Project documents 2. Data Gathering 2. Project management plan updates
3. Enterprise enviromental factors 3. Interpersonal and team skills 3. Project document updates
4. Organizational process assets 4. Strategies for threats
5. Strategies for Opportunities
6. Contingent response strategies
7. Strategies for overall project risks
8. Data Analysis
9. Decision making

Implement Risk Responses

1. Project mangement plan 1. Expert judgment 1. Change requests
2. Project documents 2. Interpersonal and team skills 2. Project document updates
3. Organizational process assets 3. PMIS

Monitor risks
1. Project mangement plan 1. Data Analysis 1. Work Performance Information
2. Project documents 2. Audits 2. Change requests
3. Work performance data 3. Meetings 3. Project management plan updates
4. Work performance reports 4. Project documents updates
5. Organizational process assets updates
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Procurement Project Management Institute, Inc.
INPUTS TOOLS OUTPUTS
Plan Procurement Management
1. Project Charter 1. Expert judgment 1. Procurement management plan
2. Business documents 2. Data Gathering 2. Procurement strategy
3. Project management plan 3. Data Analysis 3. Bid documents
4. Project documents 4. Source selection analysis 4. Procurement statements of work
5. Enterprise enviromental factors 5. Meetings 5. Source selection criteria
6. Organizational process assets 6. Make or buy decisions
7. Independent cost estimates
8. Change requests
9. Project documents updates
10. Organizational proces assets updates
Conduct Procurements
1. Project mangement plan 1. Expert judgment 1. Selected sellers
2. Project documents 2. Advertising 2. Agreements
3. Procurement documentation 3. Bidder conferences 3. Change requests
4. Seller proposals 4. Data Analysis 4. Project management plan updates
5. Enterprise enviromental factors 5. Interpersonal and team skills 5. Project document updates
6. Organizational process assets 6. Organizational proces assets updates
Control Procurements
1. Project mangement plan 1. Expert judgment 1. Closed Procurements
2. Project documents 2. Claims administration 2. Work performance Information
3. Agreements 3. Data Analysis 3. Procurement documentation updates
4. Procurement documentation 4. Insepection 4. Change requests
5. Approved Change requests 5. Audits 5. Project management plan updates
6. Work performance data 6. Project document updates
7. Enterprise enviromental factors 7. Organizational proces assets updates
8. Organizational process assets
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Stakeholder Project Management Institute, Inc.
INPUTS TOOLS OUTPUTS
Identify Stakeholders
1. Project Charter 1. Expert judgment 1. Stakeholder register
2. Business documents 2. Data Gathering 2. Change requests
3. Project management plan 3. Data Analysis 3. Project management plan updates
4. Project documents 4. Data representation 4. Project document updates
5. Agreements 5. Meetings
6. Enterprise enviromental factors
7. Organizational process assets
Plan Stakeholder Engagement
1. Project Charter 1. Expert judgment 1. Stakeholder management plan
2. Project management plan 2. Data Gathering
3. Project documents 3. Data Analysis
4. Agreements 4. Decision making
5. Enterprise enviromental factors 5. Data representation
6. Organizational process assets 6. Meetings
Manage Stakeholder Engagement
1. Project management plan 1. Expert judgment 1. Change requests
2. Project documents 2. Communication skills 2. Project management plan updates
3. Enterprise enviromental factors 3. Interpersonal and team skills 3. Project documents updates
4. Organizational process assets 4. Ground rules
5. Meetings
Monitor Stakeholder Engagement
1. Project management plan 1. Data Analysis 1. Work performance information
2. Project documents 2. Decision making 2. Change requests
3. Work performance data 3. Data representation 3. Project management plan updates
4. Enterprise enviromental factors 4. Communication skills 4. Project documents updates
5. Organizational process assets 5. Interpersonal and team skills
6. Meetings