Developing a document that formally authorizes the existence of a project and provides the project manager with the authority to apply organizational resources to project activities.

Defining, preparing, and coordinating all subsidiary plans and integrating them into a comprehensive project management plan. The project's integrated baselines and subsidiary plans may be included within the project management plan.

The process of leading and performing the work defined in the project management plan and implementing approved changes to achieve the project's objectives.

The process of tracking, reviewing, and reporting project progress against the performance objectives defined in the project management plan.

Reviewing all change requests; approving changes and managing changes to deliverables, organizational process assets, project documents, and the project management plan; and communicating their disposition.

Finalizing all activities across all of the Project Management Process Groups to formally complete the phase or project.

Creating a scope management plan that documents how the project scope will be defined, validated, and controlled.

Determining, documenting, and managing stakeholder needs and requirements to meet project objectives.  The key benefit is that it provides the basis for defining and managing the project and product scope.

Developing a detailed description of the project and product.

Subdividing project deliverables and project work into smaller, more manageable components.

Formalizing acceptance of the completed project deliverables.

Monitoring the status of the project and product scope and managing changes to the scope baseline.

Establishing the policies, procedures, and documentation for planning, developing, managing, executing, and controlling the project schedule.

Identifying and documenting the specific actions to be performed to product the project deliverables.

Identifying and documenting relationships among the project activities.

Estimating the type and quantities of material, human resources, equipment, or supplies required to perform each activity.

Estimating the number of work periods needed to complete individual activities with estimated resources.

Analysing activity sequences, durations, resource requirements, and schedule contraints to create the project schedule model.

Monitoring the status of project activities to update project progress and manage changes to the schedule baseline to achieve the plan.

Establishes the policies, procedures, and documentation for planning, managing, expending, and controlling project costs.

Developing an approximation of the monetary resources needed to complete project activities.

Aggregating the estimated costs of individual activities or work packages to establish an authorized cost baseline.

Monitoring the status of the project to update the project costs and managing changes to the cost baseline.

Identifying quality requirements and/or standards for the project and its deliverables and documenting how the project will demonstrate compliance with quality requirements and/or standards.

8.2 Perform Quality Assurance

DESCRIBE/DEFINE

Auditing the quality requirements and the results from quality control measurements to ensure that appropriate quality standards and operational definitions are used.

8.3 Control Quality

DESCRIBE/DEFINE

Monitoring and recording results of executing the quality activities to assess performance and recommend necessary changes.

Identifying and documenting project roles, responsibilities, required skills, reporting relationships, and creating a staffing management plan.

Confirming human resource availability and obtaining the team necessary to complete project activities.

Improving competencies, team member interaction, and overall team environment to enhance project performance.

Tracking team member performance, providing feedback, resolving issues, and managing changes to optimize project performance.

Developing an appropriate approach and plan for project communications based on stakeholder's information needs and requirements, and available organizational assets.

Creating, collecting, distributing, storing, retrieving and the ultimate disposition of project information in accordance with the communications management plan.

Monitoring and controlling communications throughout the entire project life cycle to ensure the information needs of the project stakeholders are met.

Defining how to conduct risk management activities for a project.

Determining which risks may affect the project and documenting their characteristics.

Prioritizing risks for further analysis or action by assessing and combining their probability of occurrence and impact.

Numerically analyzing the effect of identified risks on overall project objectives.

11.5 Plan Risk Responses

DESCRIBE/DEFINE

Developing options and actions to enhance opportunities and to reduce threats to project objectives.

Implementing risk response plans, tracking identified risks, monitoring residual risks, identifying new risks, and evaluating risk process effectiveness throughout the project.

Documenting project procurement decisions, specifying the approach, and identifying potential sellers.

12.2 Conduct Procurements

DESCRIBE/DEFINE

Obtaining seller responses, selecting a seller, and awarding a contract.

12.3 Control Procurements

DESCRIBE/DEFINE

Managing procurement relationships, monitoring contract performance, and making changes and corrections as appropriate.

12.4 Close Procurements

DESCRIBE/DEFINE

Completing each project procurement.

13.1 Identify Stakeholders

DESCRIBE/DEFINE

Identifying the people, groups, or organizations that could impact or be impacted by a decision, activity, or outcome of the project; and analyzing and documenting relevant information regarding their interests, involvement, interdependencies, influence, and potential impact on project success.

Developing appropriate management strategies to effectively engage stakeholdeers throughout the project life cycle, based on the analysis of their needs, interests, and potential impact on project success.

Communicating and working with stakeholders to meet their needs/expectations, address issues as they occur, and foster appropriate stakeholder engagement in project activities throughout the project life cycle.

Monitoring overall project stakeholder relationships and adjusting strategies and plans for engaging stakeholders.

1. Develop Project Charter (Initiating) 
2. Develop Project Management Plan 
3. Direct and Manage Project Work 
4. Monitor and Control Project Work  
5. Perform Integrated Change Control 
6. Close Project or Phase (Closing)

1. Plan Scope Management (Planning)
2. Collect Requirements (Planning)
3. Define Scope (Planning)
4. Create WBS (Planning)
5. Validate Scope (Monitoring)
6. Control Scope (Monitoring)

1. Plan Schedule Management
2. Define Activities (Planning)
3. Sequence Activities 
4. Estimate Activity Resources 
5. Estimate Activity Durations
6. Develop Schedule
7. Control Schedule (Monitoring)

1. Plan Cost Management (Planning) 
2. Estimate Costs (Planning) 
3. Determine Budget (Planning) 
4. Control Costs (Controlling)

1. Plan Quality Management (Planning) 
2. Perform Quality Assurance (Executing)
3. Control Quality (Monitoring)

1. Plan HR Management (Planning) 
2. Aquire Project Team (Executing) 
3. Develop Project Team (Executing) 
4. Manage Project Team

1. Plan Communications Management (Planning) 
2. Manage Communications (Executing)
3. Control Communications (Monitoring)

1. Plan Risk Management (Planning) 
2. Identify Risks (Planning) 
3. Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
4. Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis  
5. Plan Risk Responses (Planning) 
6. Control Risks (Monitoring)

1. Plan Procurement Management (Planning) 
2. Conduct Procurements (Executing) 
3. Control Procurements (Monitoring) 
4. Close Procurements (Closing)

1. Identify Stakeholders (Initiating) 
2. Plan Stakeholder Management (Planning) 
3. Manage Stakeholder Engagement (Executing) 
4. Control Stakeholder Engagement

1. Project Statement of Work (SOW) 
2. Business case 
3. Agreements 
4. Enterprise Environmental Factors
5. Organizational process assets -OPA

1. Expert Judgement
2. Facilitation Techniques

1. Project Charter
2. Outputs from other processes
3. Enterprise environmental factors -EEF
4. Organizational process assets- OPA

1. Expert Judgement
2. Facilitation techniques

1. Project management plan
2. Approved change requests
3. Enterprise environmental factor -EEF
4. Organizational process assets -OPA

1. Expert judgment
2. Project Management Information Systems
3. Meetings

1. Deliverables
2. Work performance data
3. Change requests
4. Project management plan updates
5. Project document updates

1. Project management plan
2. Schedule forecasts
3. Cost forecasts
4. Validated changes
5. Work performance information
6. Enterprise environmental factors
7. Organizational process assets

1. Expert judgment
2. Analytical techniques
3. Project management information systems (PMIS)
4. Meetings

1. Change requests
2. Work performance reports
3. Project management plan updates
4. Project document updates

1. Project Management Plan
2. Work Performance reports
3. Change requests
4. Enterprise environmental factors
5. Organizational process assets

1. Expert judgement
2. Meetings
3. Change control tools

1. Approved change requests
2. Change log
3. Project management plan updates
4. Project document updates

1. Project management plan
2. Accepted deliverables
3. Organizational process assets

1. Expert judgment
2. Analytical techniques
3. Meetings

1. Final product, service or result transition
2. Organizational process assets updates

1. Project Management Plan
2. Project Charter
3. Enterprise Environmental Factors
4. Organizational process assets

1. Scope Management Plan
2. Requirements management plan

1. Expert Judgment
2. Meetings

1. Scope management plan
2. Requirements management plan
3. Stakeholder management plan
4. Project charter
5. Stakeholder register

1. Interviews
2. Focus groups
3. Facilitated workshops
4. Group creativity techniques
5. Group decision making techniques
6. Questionnaires and surveys
7. Observations
8. Prototypes
9. Benchmarking
10. Context diagrams
11. Document analysis

1. Requirements documentations
2. Requirements traceability matrix

1. Scope management plan
2. Project charter
3. Requirements documentation
4. Organizational process assets

1. Expert judgment
2. Product analysis
3. Alternatives generation
4. Facilitated workshops

1. Project scope statement
2. Project documents updates

1. Scope management plan
2. Project scope statement
3. Requirements documentation
4. Enterprise environmental factors
5. Organizational process assets

1. Decomposition
2. Expert judgment

1. Scope baseline 
2. Project documents updates

1. Project management plan
2. Requirements documentation
3. Requirements traceability matrix
4. Verified deliverables
5. Work performance data

1. Inspection
2. Group decision-making techniques

1. Accepted deliverables
2. Change requests
3. Work performance information
4. Project document updates

1. Project management plan
2. Requirements documentation
3. Requirements traceability matrix
4. Work performance data
5. Organizational Process Assets

1. Work performance information
2. Change requests
3. Project management plan updates
4. Project document updates
5. Organizational process assets updates

1. Project management plan
2. Project charter
3. Enterprise environmental factors
4. Organizational process assets

1. Expert judgement
2. Analytical techniques
3. Meetings

1. Schedule management plan
2. Scope baseline
3. Enterprise environmental factors
4. Organizational assets

1. Decomposition
2. Rolling wave planning
3. Expert judgement

1. Activity list
2. Activity attributes
3. Milestone list

1. Schedule management plan
2. Activity list
3. Activity attributes
4. Milestone list
5. Project scope statement
6. Enterprise environmental factors
7. Organizational assets

1. Precedence diagramming method (PDM)
2. Dependency determination
3. Leads and lags

1. Project schedule network diagrams
2. Project document updates

1. Schedule management plan
2. Activity list
3. Activity attributes
4. Resource calendars
5. Risk register
6. Activity cost estimates
7. Enterprise environmental factors
8. Organizational process assets

1. Expert judgment
2. Alternative analysis
3. Published estimating data
4. Bottom-up estimating
5. Project management software

1. Activity resource requirements
2. Resource breakdown structure
3. Project document updates

1. Schedule management plan
2. Activity list
3. Activity attributes
4. Activity resource requirements
5. Resource calendars
6. Project scope statement
7. Risk Register
8. Resource breakdown structure
9. Enterprise environmental factors
10. Organizational process assets

1. Expert judgment
2. Analogous estimating
3. Parametric estimating
4. Three-point estimating
5. Group decision making techniques
6. Reserve analysis

1. Activity duration estimates
2. Project documents updates

1. Schedule management plan
2. Activity list
3. Activity attributes
4. Project schedule network diagram
5. Activity resource requirements
6. Resource calendars
7. Activity duration estimates
8. Project scope statements
9. Risk register
10. Project staff assignments
11. Resource breakdown structure
12. Enterprise environmental factors
13. Organizational process assets

1. Schedule network analysis
2. Critical path method
3. Critical chain method
4. Resource optimization techniques
5. Modeling techniques
6. Leads and Lags
7. Schedule compression
8. Scheduling tool

1. Schedule baseline
2. Project schedule
3. Schedule data
4. Project calendars
5. Project management plan updates
6. Project document updates

1. Project management plan
2. Project schedule
3. Work performance data
4. Project calendars
5. Schedule data
6. Organizational process assets

1. Performance reviews
2. Project management software
3. Resource optimization techniques
4. Modeling techniques
5. Leads and lags
6. Schedule compression
7. Scheduling tool

1. Work performance information
2. Schedule forecasts
3. Change requests
4. Project management plan updates
5. Project documents updates
6. Organizational process assets updates

1. Project Management Plan
2. Project Charter
3. Enterprise Environmental Factors
4. Organizational process assets

1. Expert judgment
2. Analytical Techniques
3. Meetings

1. Cost Management Plan
2. Human Resources Management Plan
3. Scope Baseline
4. Project Schedule
5. Risk Register
6. Enterprise Organizational Factors
7. Organizational process assets

1. Expert judgment
2. Analogous estimating
3. Parametric Estimating
4. Bottom-up Estimating
5. Three point estimating
6. Reserve analysis
7. Cost of quality
8. Project management software
9. Vendor bid analysys
10. Group decision making techniques

1. Activity cost estimates
2. Basis of estimates -how, assumptions made, range+-?%
3. Project document updates - risk register

1. Cost management plan
2. Scope baseline
3. Activity cost estimates
4. Basis of estimates
5. Project schedule
6. Resource calendars
7. Risk register
8. Agreements
9. Organizational process assets

1. Cost aggregation
2. Reserve analysis
3. Expert judgment
4. Historical relationships-parametric estimate
5. Funding limit reconciliation

1. Cost baseline
2. Project funding requirements
3. Project document updates

1. Project management plan
2. Project funding requirements
3. Work performance data
4. OPA

1. Earned Value Management
2. Forecasting
3. To-Complete Performance Index (TCPI)
4. Performance reviews
5. Project management software
6. Reserve analysis

1. Work performance information
2. Cost forecasts
3. Change requests
4. Project management plan updates
5. Project document updates
6. OPA updates

1. Project Management plan
2. Stakeholder register
3. Risk Register
4. Requirements documentation
5. EEF
6. OPA

1. Cost-benefit analysis
2. Cost of Quality
3. Seven basic Quality tools - [Cause-effect diagrams, Flowcharts, Checksheets, Pareto diagram, Histograms, Control Charts, Scatter Diagrams]
4. Benchmarking
5. Design of Experiments
6. Statistical Sampling
7. Additional tools - Brainstorming, forcefield analysis, Nominal group technique
8. Meetings

1. Quality management plan - How to meet quality requirements
2. Process improvement plan - includes ( process boundaries, configuration, metrics, targets for improvement)
3. Quality Metrics - measurement values and tolerance- E.G. on-time performance, defect frequency, failure rate, availability, reliability

1. Quality management plan
2. Process improvement plan
3. Quality metrics
4. Quality control measurements
5. Project documents

1. Quality management and control tools- [affinity diagrams, PDPC Process Decision Program Charts, Interrelationship digraphs, Tree diagrams, Prioritization matrices, Activity network diagrams, matrix diagams]
2. Quality Audits - identify good practices and share industry best practices. Confirm implementation of change requests
3. Process analysis - follow steps in Process improvement plan

1. Change requests
2. Project management plan updates
3. Project document updates
4. OPA updates

1. Project management plan
2. Quality metrics
3. Quality checklists
4. Work performance data
5. Approved change requests
6. Deliverables
7. Project documents
8. OPA

1. Seven basic quality tools
2. Statistical sampling
3. Inspection
4. Approved change request review

1. Quality control measurements
2. Validated changes
3. Verified deliverables
4. work performance information - WPI
5. Change requests
6. Project management plan updates
7. OPA updates

1. Org Charts & Position descriptions
2. Networking to find staff
3. Organizational theory
4. Expert judgment
5. Meetings

1. Human Resources Management Plan

1. Human Resources Management Plan
2. EEF
3. OPA

1. Pre-assignment
2. Negotiation
3. Acquisition
4. Virtual Teams
5. Multi-criteria decision analysis

1. Project staff assignments
2. Resource Calendars
3. Project management plan updates

1. Human Resources management plan
2. Project staff assignment
3. Resource calendars

1. Interpersonal skills
2. Training
3. Team-building activities
4. Ground rules
5. Colocation
6. Recognition and rewards
7. Personnel assessment tools

1. Team performance assessments
2. EEF updates

1. Human resources management plan
2. Project staff assignments
3. Team performance assessments
4. Issue log
5. Work performance reports
6. OPA

1. Observation and conversation
2. Project performance appraisals
3. Conflict management
4. Interpersonal skills

1. Change requests
2. Project management plan updates
3. Project document updates
4. EEF updates
5. OPA updates

1. Project management plan
2. Stakeholder register
3. EEF
4. OPA

1. Communications requirements analysis
2. Communications technology
3. Communications models
4. Communications methods - Push, pull, Interactive
5. Meetings

1. Communications management plan
2. Project document updates - schedule & stakeholder register

1. Communications management plan
2. work performance reports
3. EEF
4. OPA

1. Communications technology
2. Communications models
3. Communications methods
4. Information management systems
5. Performance Reporting

1. Project communications
2. Project management plan updates
3. Project document updates
4. OPA updates

1. Project management plan
2. Project communications
3. Issue log
4. Work performance data
5. OPA

1. Information management systems
2. Expert judgment
3. Meetings

1. Work performance information
2. Change requests
3. Project management plan updates
4. Project document updates
5. OPA updates

1. Project management plan
2. Project charter
3. Stakeholder register
4. EEF
5. OPA

1. Analytical techniques
2. Expert judgment
3. Meetings

1. Risk Management Plan

1. Risk management plan
2. Cost management plan
3. Schedule management plan
4. Quality management plan
5. Human resources management plan
6. Scope baseline
7. Activity cost estimates
8. Activity duration estimates
9. Stakeholder register
10. Project documents
11. Procurement documents
12. EEF
13. OPA

1. Documentation Reviews
2. Information gathering techniques
3. Checklist analysis
4. Assumptions analysis
5. Diagramming techniques
6. SWOT analysis
7. Expert judgment

1. Risk Register

1. Risk management plan
2. Scope baseline
3. Risk Register
4. EEF
5. OPA

1. Risk probability and impact assessment
2. Probability and impact matrix
3. Risk data quality assessment
4. Risk categorization
5. Risk urgency assessment
6. Expert judgment

1. Project document updates - Risk register

1. Risk Management Plan
2. Cost Management Plan
3. Schedule Management Plan
4. Risk Register
5. EEF
6. OPA

1. Data gathering and representation techniques
2. Quantitative risk analysis and modeling techniques. e.g. Sensitivity analysis, EMV, Monte Carlo
3. Expert judgment

1. Project document updates -

• Probalistic analysis of the project
• Probability of achieving cost & time objectives
• Prioritized list of quantified risks
• Trends in quantitative risk analysis results

1. Risk Management Plan
2. Risk Register

1. Strategies for negative risk or threats
2. Strategies for positive risk or opportunities
3. Contingient response strategies
4. Expert judgment

1. Project management plan updates
2. Project document updates

1. Risk management plan
2. Risk register
3. Work performance data
4. Work performance reports

1. Risk reassessment
2. Risk audits
3. Variance and trend analysis
4. Technical performance measurement
5. Reserve analysis
6. Meetings

1. Work performance information
2. Change requests
3. Project management plan updates
4. Project document updates
5. Organizational process assets updates

1. Project management plan
2. Requirements documentation
3. Risk Register
4. Activity Resource requirements
5. Project Schedule
6. Activity Cost Estimates
7. Stakeholder register
8. EEF
9. OPA

1. Make-or-buy analysis
2. Expert judgment
3. Market research
4. Meetings

1. Procurement management plan
2. Procurement Statement of Work
3. Procurement documents
4. Source Selection criteria
5. Make-or-buy decisions
6. Change requests
7. Project document updates

1. Procurement management plan
2. Procurement documents
3. Source selection criteria
4. Seller proposals
5. Project documents
6. Make-or-buy decisions
7. Procurement Statement of Work
8. OPA

1. Bidder conference
2. Proposal evaluation techniques
3. Independent estimates
4. Expert judgment
5. Advertising
6. Analytical techniques
7. Procurement negotiations

1. Selected Sellers
2. Agreements
3. Resource calendars
4. Change requests
5. Project management plan updates
6. Project document updates

1. Project management plan
2. Procurement documents
3. Agreements
4. Approved change requests
5. Work performance reports
6. Work performance data

1. Contract change control system
2. Procurement performance reviews
3. Inspections and audits
4. Performance reporting
5. Payment systems
6. Claims administration
7. Records management systems

1. Work performance information
2. Change requests
3. Project management plan updates
4. Project document updates
5. OPA updates

1. Project management plan
2. Procurement documents

1. Procurement audits
2. Procurement negotiations
3. Records management system

1. Closed procurements
2. OPA updates

1. Project Charter
2. Procurement documents
3. Enterprise Environmental factors
4. Organizational Process assets

1. Stakeholder analysis
2. Expert judgment
3. Meetings

1. Stakeholder register

1. Project management plan
2. Stakeholder register
3. EEF
4. OPA

1. Expert judgment
2. Meetings
3. Analytical techniques

1. Stakeholder management plan
2. Project document updates

1. Stakeholder management plan
2. Communications management plan
3. Change log
4. OPA

1. Communications methods
2. Interpersonal skills
3. Management skills

1. Issue log
2. Change requests
3. Project management plan updates
4. Project document updates
5. OPA updates

1. Project management plan
2. Issue log
3. Work performance data
4. Project documents

1. Information management systems
2. Expert judgment
3. Meetings

1. Work performance information
2. Change requests
3. Project management plan updates
4. Project document updates
5. OPA updates