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Chapter 3
Project Integration
Management
The purposes of project integration management are to
(1)initiate the project; (2) coordinate project activities and inte-
grate all efforts into a project management plan; (3) integrate,
analyze, and report the project results from carrying out the
project management plan; (4) control changes to the baseline
plan; (5) collect, integrate, and organize project information in
a project information system; and (6) close the project in an
orderly and disciplined fashion.
Components
Project Charter Development—The project charter
authorizes a project to commence and allows the project
manager to access organizati ...