The Definitive Guide to Project Management: The fast track to getting the job done on time and on budget, Second Edition

Chapter 3. Project management processes

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• Process groups — rationale and general principles

• The initiating process group

• The planning process group

• The executing process group

• The monitoring and controlling process group

• The closing process group

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Aims of this chapter

This chapter introduces the concept of process groups for project management and then describes each one in detail. The previous chapter described project lifecycles, and it is vital to understand the difference between process groups and the phases in a lifecycle. By the end of this chapter, the reader should be able to:

• list the five project management processes in sequence;

• state the principal outputs of each process group;

• describe the purpose of each of ...