PM-9 Knowledge Area General Descriptions

General Descriptions-Project Management 9 Knowledge Area

1. Integration Management
Describes the processes required to ensure that the various elements of the project are coordinated. It consists of project plan development, project plan execution and overall change control.

2. Scope Management
Describes the processes required to ensure that the project requires all the work required and only the work required to complete the project successfully. It consists of initiation, scope planning, scope definition, scope verification, and scope change control.

3. Time Management
Describes the processes required to ensure timely completion of the project. It consists of activity definition, activity sequencing, activity duration estimating, schedule development and schedule control.

4. Cost Management
Describes the processes required to ensure that the project is completed within the approved budget. It consists of resource planning, cost estimating, cost budgeting and cost control.

5. Quality Management
Describes the processes required to ensure that the project will satisfy the needs for which it was undertaken. It consists of quality planning, quality assurance, and quality control.

6. Human Resource Management
Describes the processes required to make the most effective use of the people involved with the project. It consists of organizational planning, staff acquisition, and team development.

7. Communications Management
Describes the processes required to ensure timely and appropriate generation, collection, dissemination, storage, and ultimate disposition of project information. It consists of communications planning, information distribution, performance reporting, and administrative closure.

8. Risk Management
Describes the processes concerned with identifying analysing, and responding to project risk. It consists of risk identification, risk quantification, risk response development, and risk response control.

9. Procurement Management
Describes the processes required to acquire goods and services from outside the performing organization. It consists of procurement planning, solicitation planning, solicitation, source selection, contract administration, and contract closeout.

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