PMP Certification

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Project Integration Management

CHAPTER COVERAGE

1. Project Management Processes
2. Process Group Interactions
3. Project Charter
4. Project Management Plan
5. Work Authorization System
6. Work Performance Information
7. Expert Judgment
8. Project Execution

PROJECT MANAGEMENT PROCESSES

Management processes are grouped into five categories known as project management process groups (or process groups):

1. Initiating
2. Planning
3. Executing
4. Monitoring and controlling
5. Closing

We will now define these five process groups, which will be elaborated upon later in this chapter Figure 3.1 (a) shows the relationship between the process groups and the feedback and process loops among them.

Initiation

The initiation process group, as the term implies, occurs at the beginning ...