CHAPTER 2Integration Management

By the PMBOK® Guide standard, there are ten disciplines or knowledge areas of project management. Integration management is the key knowledge area where all the pieces of your project are knitted together. This means coordinating all the many moving parts that go into building the deliverables for the customer.

Since changes on a project often have a ripple effect impacting many areas, integration management is where the important Perform Integrated Change Control process is done. Because project selection is part of integration management, key cost concepts used in choosing projects are covered here also.

Integration management is also very important for the PMP® and CAPM® Exams. Wrapping your brain around the ...

Get The Project Management Answer Book, 2nd Edition now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.