PMBOK Study Notes

PMBOK (project management body of knowledge) PMBOK guide divides into 44 processes that fall into 5 Process Groups.

5 process groups are:

Initiating: Develop Project Charter, develop preliminary scope statement

Plannig: develop project management plan, risk identification, Quality Planning, Activity Duration Estimation

Executing: direct and manage project work, information distribution

Monitoring & controlling: scope control, monitor and control project work, Schedule Control

Closing: Close project

9 knowledage Areas

Risk

Quality

Scope

Procurement: defining contracts and choosing a contractor to do work for the project

Communication

Time

Integration

Cost

Human Resource

Functional organization/matrix organization/projectized Organization

Project three constraints (triple constraint): scope, time, cost (note qulitity not supported des)

A stakeholder is anyone who is affected by the cost, time or scope of the project.

The parameter sor the person who pays for the project

The seven integration management processes:

1. Develop Project Charter

2. Develop preliminary scope statement

3. Develop Project Management Plan

4. direct and manage project execution

5. Monitor and Control Project Work

6. Integrated Change Control

7. Close project

Preliminary scope statement includes:

1. Project and product Objectives

2. product or service requirements and characteristics

3. product acceptance criteria

4. Project boundaries

5. Project Deliverables

6. Project constraints and assumptions

7. Initial Project Organization

8. Initial defined risks

9. Schedules milestones

10. Order of magn1_cost estimate

11. project configuration management requirements

12. approval requirement

The project management plan is a collection of other plans:

1. Scope Management

2. Time Management

3. Cost Management

4. Quality Management

5. Human Resource Management

6. Communications Management

7. Risk management8. procurement