4.0 Integration 5.0 Scope 6.

0 Time
4.1 Develop Project Charter 5.1 Scope Planning 6.1 Activity Definition

4.2 Develop Preliminary 5.2 Scope Definition 6.2 Activity Sequencing

Scope Statement
4.3 Develop Project
Management Plan
4.4 Direct and Manage
Project Execution
5.3 Create WBS 6.3 Activity Resource
Estimating
5.4 Scope Verification
6.4 Activity Duration
5.5 Scope Change Control Estimating

4.5 Monitor and Control

Project Work

4.6 Integrated Change

Control

4.7 Close Project

 7.0 Cost 8.0 Quality 9.0 Human
Resources
7.1 Cost Estimation 8.1 Quality Planning 9.1 Human Resources
Planning
7.2 Cost Budgeting 8.2 Perform Quality
Assurance 9.2 Acquire Project Team
7.3 Cost Control
8.3 Perform Quality Control 9.3 Develop Project Team

9.4 Manage Project Team

 10.0 11.0 Risk 12.0 Procurement
Communication
10.1 Communication 11.1 Risk Management 12.1 Plan Purchases &
Planning Planning Acquisitions

10.2 Information 11.2 Risk Identification 12.2 Plan Contracting

Distribution
11.3 Qualitative Risk 12.3 Request Seller
10.3 Performance Reporting Analysis Responses

10.4 Manage Stakeholders 11.4 Quantitative Risk 12.4 Select Sellers

Analysis
12.5 Contract Administration
11.5 Risk Response Planning
12.6 Contract Closure
11.6 Risk Monitoring &
Controlling

4.1 Develop Project Charter

Knowledge Area: Integration
Process Group: Initiating
Inputs
1. Contract
2. SOW (includes business
need, scope description,
strategic plan)
3. Enterprise environmental
factors
4. Organizational process
assets (templates,
procedures)
4.2 Develop Preliminary Project Scope Statement
Knowledge Area: Integration
Process Group: Initiating
* Process necessary for documenting the
business needs & requirements
* PC links to ongoing work of the organization
and authorize the project
* Project is charted by org or program or
portfolio body
Tools & Techniques Outputs
1. Project selection methods 1. Project Charter
2. Project management
methodology
3. Project management
information system
4. Expert judgment
* Produces preliminary high level definition of
the project
* contains deliverable requirements, product
requirements, boundaries of the project,
methods of acceptance and high level scope

Inputs
1. Project Charter
2. Statement Of Work
(SOW)
3. Enterprise environmental
factors
4. Organizational process
Assets
4.3 Develop Project Management Plan
Knowledge Area: Integration
Process Group: Planning
Inputs
1. Preliminary project scope
statement
2. Project management
processes
control
Tools & Techniques Outputs
1. Project management 1. Prelimnary Project Scope
methodology Statement
2. Project management
information system
3. Expert judgment
* Process for defining, prepating, integrating
and coordinating all subsidiary plans into a
project management plan
* Project mgmt plan becomes primary scource
of info for how the project will be planned,
executed, monitored and controlled and closed
Tools & Techniques Outputs
1. Project management 1. Project management plan
methodology
2. Project management
information system
3. Enterprise environmental
factors
4. Organizational process
Assets
4.4 Direct and Manage Project Execution
Knowledge Area: Integration
Process Group: Executing
Inputs
1. Project management plan
2. Approved corrective
actions
3. Approved preventive
actions
4. Approved change
requests
5. Approved defect repair
6. Validated defect repair
(configuration management
system, change control
system)
3. Expert judgment
* Process for directing technical & org interfaces
to work defined in project management plan
* Deliverables are outputs of processes defined
in project management plan
* Deliverable status and work performed is
further used as input to performance reporting
process
Tools & Techniques Outputs
1. Project management 1. Deliverables
methodology 2. Requested changes
2. Project management 3. Implemented change
information system requests
4. Implemented corrective
actions
5. Implemented preventive
actions
6. Implemented defect
7. Administrative closure
procedure
4.5 Monitor and Control Project Work
Knowledge Area: Integration
Process Group: Monitoring and
Controlling
Inputs
1. Project management plan
2. Work performance
information
3. Rejected change requests
repair
7. Work performance
information (status, budget,
% complete)
* Process for collecting, measuring and
disseminating performance information and
assessing measurements and trends to effect
process improvements
* Process includes risk monitoring (identifying,
status reporting risk plan executing)
* Also includes status reporting, progress
measurement and forecasting
* performance reporting with regards to scope,
schedule, cost, resources, quality and risk
Tools & Techniques Outputs
1. Project management 1. Recommended corrective
methodology actions
2. Project management 2. Recommended preventive
information system actions
3. Earned value 3. Forecasts
management 4. Recommended defect
 4. Expert judgment repair
5. Requested changes
4.6 Integrated Change Control
Knowledge Area: Integration * Process for controlling factors that create
Process Group: Monitoring and changes, determining wether change has
occured and measuring approved changes.
Controlling * This process is performed throught the
project.(intiating to closure)
Inputs Tools & Techniques Outputs
1. Project management plan 1. Project management 1. Approved change
2. Requested changes methodology requests
3. Work performance 2. Project management 2. Rejected change requests
information information system 3. Project management plan
4. Recommended preventive 3. Expert judgment (updates)
actions 4. Project scope
5. Recommended corrective management (updates)
actions 5. Approved corrective
6. Recommended defect actions
repair 6. Approved preventive
7. Deliverables actions
7. Approved defect repair
8. Validated defect repair

Knowledge Area: Integration
Process Group: Closing
Inputs
1. Project management plan
2. Contract documentation
3. Enterprise environmental
factors
4. Organizational process
assets
5. Work performance
information
6. Deliverables
Knowledge Area: Scope
Process Group: Planning
9. Deliverables
4.7 Close Project
* Process to finalize all activities across all of the
process groups to formally close the project or
phase
Tools & Techniques Outputs
1. Project management 1. Administrative closure
methodology procedure
2. Project management 2. Contract closure
information system procedure
3. Expert judgment 3. Final product, service or
result
4. Organizational process
assets (updates)
(acceptance doc, project
files, closure doc, historical
info update)
5.1 Scope Planning
* Process necessory for creating a project scope
management plan.
* It documents how scope will be defined,

Inputs
1. Enterprise environmental
factors
2. Organizational process
assets
3. Project Charter
4. Preliminary project scope
statement
5. Project management plan
5.2 Scope Definition
Knowledge Area: Scope
Process Group: Planning
Inputs
1. Organizational process
assets
2. Project charter
3. Preliminary project scope
statement
4. Project scope
verified and controlled and how WBS will be
created and defined
Tools & Techniques Outputs
1. Expert judgment 1. Project scope
2. Templates, forms, management plan
standards (WBS templates,
scope management plan
templates, project scope
control forms)
* Process for developing detailed project scope
statement as the basis for future project
decisions
Tools & Techniques Outputs
1. Product analysis [Value 1. Project Scope Statement
Analysis] 2. Requested changes
2. Alternative identification 3. Project scope
(brainstorming & lateral management plan (updates)
thinking) (include approved change
3. Expert judgment (SME) requests)
management plan
5. Approved change
requests
Knowledge Area: Scope
Process Group: Planning
Inputs
1. Organizational process
assets
2. Project scope statement
3. Project scope
management plan
4. Approved change
requests
5.4 Scope Verification
Knowledge Area: Scope
Process Group: Monitoring and
2. Stakeholder analysis
5.3 Create WBS
* Process for subdividing the major project
deliverables and project work into smaller, more
manageable components (work packages)
Tools & Techniques Outputs
1. WBS templates 1. Project scope statement
2. Decomposition (updates) (approved change
requests)
2. WBS
3. WBS dicitionary
4. Scope baseline
5. Project scope
management plan (updates)
(approved change requests)
6. Requested changes
* Process for formalizing acceptance of the
complete project deliverables
Controlling

Inputs Tools & Techniques Outputs

1. Project scope statement 1. Inspection 1. Accepted deliverables
2. WBS directory (supporting documents and
3. Project scope mgmt plan acknowledgement)
4. Deliverables 2. Requested changes
3. Recommended corrective
actions
5.5 Scope Change Control
Knowledge Area: Scope * Process for controlling changes to the project
Process Group: Monitoring and scope
Controlling
Inputs Tools & Techniques Outputs
1. Project scope statement 1. Change control system 1. Project scope statement
2. WBS 2. Variance analysis (updates)
3. WBS dictionary 3. Replanning 2. WBS (updates)
4. Project scope 4. Configuration 3. WBS dictionary (updates)
management plan management system 4. Scope baseline (updates)
5. Performance reports 5. Requested changes
6. Approved change 6. Recommended corrective
requests
7. Work performance
information
6.1 Activity Definition
Knowledge Area: Time
Process Group: Planning
Inputs
1. Enterprise environmental
factors
2. Organizational process
assets
3. Project scope statement
4. WBS
5. WBS dictionary
6. Project management plan
6.2 Activity Sequencing
action
7. Organizational process
assets (updates) (variance
learnings & lessons learned)
8. Project management plan
(updates)
* Process for identifying the specific activities
that need to be performed to produce the
various project deliverables
Tools & Techniques Outputs
1. Decomposition 1. Activity list
(Work package --> schedule 2. Activity attributes
activities) 3. Milestone list
2. Templates 4. Requested changes
3. Rolling wave planning
4. Expert judgement
5. Planning component
Knowledge Area: Time
Process Group: Planning
Inputs
1. Project scope statement
2. Activity list
3. Activity attributes
4. Milestone list
5. Approved change
requests
6.3 Activity Resources Estimating
Knowledge Area: Time
Process Group: Planning
Inputs
1. Enterprise environmental
factors
2. Organizational process
assets
* Process for identifying and documenting logical
relationships among schedule activities and
logically sequencing them accordingly
Tools & Techniques Outputs
1. Precedence diagramming 1. Project schedule network
method (PDM) diagrams
2. Arrow diagramming 2. Activity list (updates)
method (ADM) 3. Activity attributes
3. Schedule network (updates)
templates 4. Requested changes
4. Dependency
determination
5. Applying leads & lags
* Process for estimating the type and quantities
of resources required to perform each schedule
activity
Tools & Techniques Outputs
1. Expert judgment 1. Activity resource
2. Alternate analysis (make- requirements
or-buy decision, 2. Activity attributes
automation) (updates)
3. Activity list
4. Activity attributes
5. Resource availability
6. Project management plan
6.4 Activity Duration Estimating
Knowledge Area: Time
Process Group: Planning
Inputs
1. Enterprise environmental
factors
2. Organizational process
assets
3. Project scope statement
4. Activity list
5. Activity attributes
6. Activity resource
requirements
7. Resource calendars
8. Project management plan
(Risk register, Activity cost
3. Published estimating data 3. Resource breakdown
(rates & cost data) structure
4. Project management 4. Resource calendars
software (updates)
5. Bottom-up estimating 5. Requested changes
* Process for estimating the number of work
periods that will be needed to complete
individual schedule activities
Tools & Techniques Outputs
1. Expert judgment 1. Activity duration
2. Analogous estimating estimates
3. Parametric estimating 2. Activity attributes
4. Three point estimating (updates)
5. Reserve analysis
estimates)
6.5 Schedule Development
Knowledge Area: Time
Process Group: Planning
Inputs
1. Organizational process
assets
2. Project scope statement
(imposed dates & imposed
milestones by sponsor)
3. Activity list
4. Activity attributes
5. Project schedule network
diagrams
6. Activity resource
requirements
7. Resource calendars
8. Activity duration
estimates
6.6 Schedule Control
* Iterative process and determines planned start
and finish dates for the project activities
Tools & Techniques Outputs
1. Schedule network 1. Project schedule
analysis 2. Schedule model data
2. Critical path method 3. Schedule baseline
3. Schedule compression 4. Resource requirements
(crashing, fast-tracking) (updates)
4. What-if scenario analysis 5. Activity attributes
5. Resource leveling (updates)
6. Critical chain method 6. Project calendar
7. Project management (updates)
software 7. Requested changes
8. Applying calendars 8. Project management plan
9. Adjust leads & lags (updates, including schedule
10. Schedule model management plan)
Knowledge Area: Time * Process for controlling changes to project
Process Group: Monitoring and schedule
Controlling
Inputs Tools & Techniques Outputs
1. Schedule management 1. Progress reporting 1. Schedule model data
plan 2. Schedule change control (updates)
2. Schedule baseline system 2. Schedule baseline
3. Performance reports 3. Performance (updates)
4. Approved change measurement 3. Performance
requests 4. Project management measurements
software 4. Requested changes
5. Variance analysis 5. Recommended corrective
6. schedule comparison bar actions
charts 6. Organizational process
Assets
7. Activity list (updates)
8. Activity attributes
(updates)
9. Project management plan
(updates)
7.1 Cost Estimation
Knowledge Area: Cost
Process Group: Planning
Inputs
1. Enterprise environmental
factors
2. Organizational process
Assets
3. Project scope statement
4. WBS
5. WBS dictionary
6. Project management plan
(schedule mgmt plan &
staffing mgmt plan, risk
register)
Knowledge Area: Cost
Process Group: Planning
Inputs
1. Project Scope Statement
2. WBS
* Process for developing an approximation of
the costs of the resources needed to complete
project activities
Tools & Techniques Outputs
1. Analogous estimating 1. Activity cost estimates
2. Determine resource cost 2. Activity cost estimate
rates supporting detail
3. Bottom-up estimating (description, basis of
4. Parametric estimating estimate, constraint, ROM)
5. Project management 3. Requested changes
software 4. Cost management plan
6. Vendor bid analysis (updates)
7. Reserve analysis
8. Cost of quality
7.2 Cost Budgeting
* Process for aggregating the estimated costs of
individual activities or work packages to
establish a cost baseline
Tools & Techniques Outputs
1. Cost aggregation 1. Cost baseline
2. Reserve Analysis 2. Project funding
3. WBS Dictionary 3. Parametric estimating requirements
4. Activity cost estimates 4. Funding limit 3. Cost management plan
5. Activity cost estimate reconcillation (updates)
supporting detail 4. Requested changes
6. Project schedule
7. Resource calendars
8. Contract
9. Cost management plan
7.3 Cost Control
Knowledge Area: Cost * Process for infleuncing the factors that create
Process Group: Monitoring and variances and controlling changes to the project
budget
Controlling
Inputs Tools & Techniques Outputs
1. Cost baseline 1. Cost change control 1. Cost estimate (updates)
2. Project funding system 2. Cost baseline (updates)
requirements 2. Performance 3. Performance
3. Performance reports measurement analysis measurements
4. Work performance 3. Forecasting 4. Forecasted completion
information 4. Project performance 5. Requested changes
5. Approved change reviews 6. Recommended corrective
requests 5. Project management actions
6. Project management plan
8.1 Quality Planning
Knowledge Area: Quality
Process Group: Planning
Inputs
1. Enterprise environmental
factors (govt regulations,
standards)
2. Organizational process
Assets (Quality policies,
historical database, lessons
learned)
3. Project scope statement
4. Project management plan
8.2 Perform Quality Assurance
software 7. Organizational process
6. Variance management assets (updates)
8. Project management plan
(updates)
* Process for identifying which quality standards
are relevent to the project and determining how
to satisfy them
Tools & Techniques Outputs
1. Cost benefit analysis 1. Quality management plan
2. Benchmarking 2. Quality metrics
3. Design of 3. Quality checklists
experiments[Taguchi 4. Process improvement
Method] plan(steps to analyze
4. Cost of Quality (COQ) processes to identify waste
5. Additional quality & non-value added items)
planning tools 5. Quality baseline
6. Project management plan
(updates)
Knowledge Area: Quality * Process for applying the planned, systematic
Process Group: Executing quality activities to ensure that the project
employs all processes needed to meet
requirements
Inputs Tools & Techniques Outputs
1. Quality management plan 1. Quality planning tools and 1. Requested changes
2. Quality metrics techniques 2. Recommended corrective
3. Process improvement 2. Quality audits actions
plan 3. Process analysis 3. Organizational process
4. Work performance 4. Quality control tools and assets (updates)
information techniques 4. Project management plan
5. Approved change (updates)
requests
6. Quality control
measurements
7. Implemented change
requests
8. Implemented corrective
actions
9. Implemented defect
repair
10. Implemented preventive
actions
8.3 Perform Quality Control
Knowledge Area: Quality * Process for monitoring specific project results
Process Group: Monitoring and to determine whether they comply with relevant
quality standards and identifying ways to
Controlling eliminate causes of unsatisfactory performance
Inputs Tools & Techniques Outputs
1. Quality management plan 1. Cause and effect diagram 1. Quality control
2. Quality metrics 2. Control charts measurements
3. Quality checklists 3. Flowcharting 2. Validated defect repair
4. Organizational process 4. Histogram 3. Quality baseline (updates)
assets 5. Pareto chart 4. Recommended corrective
5. Work performance 6. Run chart actions
information 7. Scatter diagram 5. Recommended preventive
6. Approved change 8. Statistical sampling actions
requests 9. Inspection 6. Requested changes
7. Deliverables 10. Defect repair review 7. Recommended defect
repair
8. Organizational process
Assets
9. Validated deliverables
10. Project management
 plan (updates) (completed
checklists, lessons learned)
9.1 Human Resource Planning
Knowledge Area: Human Resource * Process for identifying and documenting
Process Group: Planning project roles, responsibilities and reporting
relationships as well as creating the staffing
management plan
Inputs Tools & Techniques Outputs
1. Enterprise environmental 1. Organization charts and 1. Roles and responsibilities
factors (organizational, position descriptions[RAM (role, authority,
technical, interpersonal, Using RACI] responsibility, competencies
logistical, political) 2. Networking required)
2. Organizational process 3. Organizational theory 2. Project organization
assets (templates, charts
checklists) 3. Staffing management
3.Project management plan plan
(activity resource
requirements)
9.2 Acquire Project Team
Knowledge Area: Human Resource * Process for obtaining the human resources
Process Group: Executing needed to complete the project
Inputs
1. Enterprise environmental
factors(Availability, ability,
experience, interest, cost)
2. Organizational process
assets
3. Roles and responsibilities
4. Project organization
charts
5. Staffing management
plan
9.3 Develop Project Team
Knowledge Area: Human Resource
Process Group: Executing
Inputs
1. Project staff assignments
2. Staffing management
plan
3. Resource availability
Tools & Techniques Outputs
1. Pre-assignment 1. Project staff assignments
2. Negotiation 2. Resource availability
3. Acquisition 3. Staffing management
4. Virtual teams plan (updates)
* Process for improving the competencies and
interaction of team members to enhace project
performance
Tools & Techniques Outputs
1. General management 1. Team performance
skills (interpersonal skills) assessment (includes i.
2. Training improvements in skills for
3. Team-building activities individuals ii. improvements
4. Ground rules in competencies for the
5. Co-location[War Room] group as a whole iii. reduce

9.4 Manage Project Team
Knowledge Area: Human Resource
Process Group: Monitoring and
Controlling
Inputs
1. Organizational process
assets
2. Project staff assignments
3. Roles and responsibilities
4. Project organizational
charts
5. Staffing management
plan
6. Team performance
assessment
7. Work performance
information
8. Performance reports
10.1 Communication Planning
6. Recognition and rewards staff turnover rate)
* Process for tracking team member
performance, providing feedback, resolving
issues and coordinating changes to enhance
project performance
Tools & Techniques Outputs
1. Observation and 1. Requested changes
conversation 2. Recommended corrective
2. Project performance actions
appraisals 3. Recommended preventive
3. Conflict management actions
4. Issue log 4. Organizational process
Assets (updates)
5. Project management plan
(updates)
Knowledge Area: Communication
Process Group: Planning
Inputs
1. Enterprise environmental
factors
2. Organizational process
assets
3. Project scope statement
4. Project management plan
(Constraints & assumptions)
10.2 Information Distribution
Knowledge Area: Communication
Process Group: Executing
Inputs
1. Communications
management plan
* Process for determining the info and
communication needs of the project
stakeholders
Tools & Techniques Outputs
1. Communications 1. Communication
requirements analysis management plan
2. Communications [provides:
technology (i)stakeholder requirements
(ii)info to be communicated
(iii)responsibility
(iv)methods
(v) escalation
(vi)updating]
* Process for making information available to
project stakeholders in a timely manner
Tools & Techniques Outputs
1. Communications skills 1. Organizational process
2. Information gathering assets (updates)
and retrieval system 2. Requested changes
3. Information distribution
 methods
4. Lessons learned process
10.3 Performance Reporting
Knowledge Area: Communication * Process for collecting and distributing
Process Group: Monitoring and performance information
* Includes status reporting, progress
Controlling measurement and forecasting
Inputs Tools & Techniques Outputs
1. Work performance 1. Information presentation 1. Performance reports
information tools 2. Forecasts
2. Performance 2. Performance information 3. Requested changes
measurements gathering and compilation 4. Recommended corrective
3. Forecasted completion 3. Status review meetings actions
4. Quality control 4. Time reporting systems 5. Organizational process
measurements 5. Cost reporting systems assets (updates)
5. Project management plan
(performance measurement
baseline)
6. Approved change
requests
7. Deliverables
 10.4 Manage Stakeholders
Knowledge Area: Communication
Process Group: Monitoring and
Controlling
Inputs
1. Communications
management plan
2. Organizational process
assets
11.1 Risk Management Planning
Knowledge Area: Risk
Process Group: Planning
Inputs
1. Enterprise environmental
factors
* Process for managing communications to
satisfy the requirements of and resolve issues
with project stakeholders
Tools & Techniques Outputs
1. Communication methods 1. Resolved issues
2. Issue logs 2. Approved change
requests
3. Approved corrective
actions
4. Organizational process
assets (updates)
5. Project management plan
(updates)
* Process for deciding how to approach, plan
and execute the risk management activities for a
project
Tools & Techniques Outputs
1. Project meetings and 1. Risk management plan
analysis
2. Organizational process
assets
3. Project scope statement
4. Project management plan
11.2 Risk Identification
Knowledge Area: Risk
Process Group: Planning
Inputs
1. Enterprise environmental
factors
2. Organizational process
assets
3. Project scope statement
4. Risk management plan
5. Project management plan
11.3 Qualitative Risk Analysis
Knowledge Area: Risk
Process Group: Planning
* Process for determining which risks might
affect the project and documenting their
characteristics
Tools & Techniques Outputs
1. Documentation reviews 1. Risk register (includes list
2. Information gathering of risks, potential responses,
techniques root causes, and updated
3. Checklist analysis risk categories)
4. Assumptions analysis
5. Diagramming techniques
* Process for prioratizing risks for subsequent
further analysis or action by assessing and
combining their probability of occurance and
impact
* SUBJECTIVE analysis
Inputs Tools & Techniques Outputs
1. Organizational process 1. Risk probability and 1. Risk register (updates)
assets impact assessment
2. Project scope statement 2. Probability and impact
3. Risk management plan matrix
4. Risk register 3. Risk data quality
assessment
4. Risk categorization
5. Risk urgency assessment
11.4 Quantitative Risk Analysis
Knowledge Area: Risk * Process for numerically analysing the effect on
Process Group: Planning overall project objectives of indentified risks
* Objective or Numerical analysis
Inputs Tools & Techniques Outputs
1. Organizational process 1. Data gathering and 1. Risk register(updates)
assets presentation techniques includes
2. Project scope statement A)Interviewing B) Probability 1)probabilistic analysis of
3. Risk management plan Distribution C) Expert project for schedule & cost
4. Risk register Judgement outcomes 2)prioritized list of
5. Project management plan 2. Quantitative risk analysis quantified risks 3)trends in
(project schedule, and modeling techniques quantitative risk results
management plan, project
cost mgmt plan)
11.5 Risk Response Planning
Knowledge Area: Risk * Process for developing options and actions to
Process Group: Planning enhance opportunities and to reduce threats to
project objectives
Inputs Tools & Techniques Outputs
1. Risk management plan 1. Strategies for negative 1. Risk register(updates)
2. Risk register risks or threats 2. Project management
2. Strategies for positive plan(updates)
risks or opportunities 3. Risk-related contractual
3. Strategy for both threats agreements
and opportunities
4. Contingency response
strategy
11.6 Risk Monitoring and Controlling
Knowledge Area: Risk * Process for tracking identified risks,
Process Group: Monitoring and monitoring residual risks, identifying new risks,
executing risk response plans, and evaluating
Controlling their effectiveness throughout the project life
cycle
Inputs Tools & Techniques Outputs
1. Risk management plan 1. Risk reassessment 1. Risk register (updates)
2. Risk register
3. Approved change
requests
4. Work performance
information
5. Performance reports
12.1 Plan Purchases and Acquisitions
Knowledge Area: Procurement
Process Group: Planning
Inputs
1. Enterprise environmental
factors
2. Organizational process
assets
3. Project scope statement
4. WBS
5. WBS dictionary
6. Project management plan
2. Risk audits 2. Requested changes
3. Variance and trend 3. Recommended corrective
analysis actions
4. Technical performance 4. Recommended preventive
measurement actions
5. Reserve analysis 5. Organizational process
6. Status meetings assets (updates)
6. Project management plan
(updates)
* Process for determining what to purchase or
acquire, and determining when and how
Tools & Techniques Outputs
1. Make-or-buy analysis 1. Procurement
2. Expert judgment management plan
3. Contract types 2. Contract SOW
3. Make or buy decision
4. Requested changes
 * Risk regiter
* Risk related
contractual agreements
* Resouce
requirements
* Project schedule
* Activity cost
estimates
12.2 Plan Contracting
Knowledge Area: Procurement * Process for documenting proucts, services and
Process Group: Planning results requirements and identifying potential
sellers
Inputs Tools & Techniques Outputs
1. Procurement 1. Standard forms 1. Procurement documents
management plan 2. Expert judgment 2. Evaluation criteria (can
2. Contract statement of include cost, technical
work capability, financial capacity,
3. Make or buy decisions business type, references,
4. Project management plan etc…)
* Risk register 3. Contract SOW (updates)
* Risk related
contractual agreements
 * Resouce
requirements
* Project schedule
* Activi
12.3 Request Seller Response
Knowledge Area: Procurement * Process for obtaining information, quotation,
Process Group: Executing bids, offers or proposals as appropriate
Inputs Tools & Techniques Outputs
1. Organizational process 1. Bidder conferences 1. Qualified sellers list
assets 2. Advertising 2. Procurement document
2. Procurement 3. Develop qualified sellers package
management plan list 3. Proposals
3. Procurement documents
12.4 Select Seller
Knowledge Area: Procurement * Process for reviewing offers, choosing from
Process Group: Executing among potential sellers and negotiating a
written contact with the seller
Inputs Tools & Techniques Outputs
1. Organizational process 1. Weighting system 1. Selected sellers
assets 2. Independent estimates 2. Contract
2. Procurement [Should-cost] 3. Contract management
management plan
3. Evaluation criteria
4. Procurement document
package
5. Proposals
6. Qualified sellers list
7. Project management plan
(risk register, risk-related
contractual agreements)
12.5 Contract Administration
Knowledge Area: Procurement
Process Group: Monitoring and
Controlling
Inputs
1. Contract
2. Contract management
plan
3. Selected sellers
4. Performance reports
5. Approved change
3. Screening system plan
4. Contract negotitaion 4. Resource availability
5. Seller rating system 5. Procurement
6. Expert judgement management plan (updates)
7.Proposal evaluation 6. Requested changes
techniques
* Process for managing contract & relationship
between buyer and seller, reviewing and
documenting how a seller is performing and
managing contactual relationship * Identify risk
Triggers
Tools & Techniques Outputs
1. Contract change control 1. Contract documentation
system 2. Requested changes
2. Buyer conducted 3. Recommended corrective
performance review actions
3. Inspections and audits 4. Organizational process
4. Performance reporting assets (updates)
requests 5. Payment system 5. Project management plan
6. Work performance 6. Claims administration (updates)(procurement
information 7. Records management mgmt plan & contract mgmt
system plan)
8. Information technology
12.6 Contract Closure
Knowledge Area: Procurement * Process for completing and settling each
Process Group: Closing contract, including resolution of any open items
and closing each contract applicable
Inputs Tools & Techniques Outputs
1. Procurement 1. Procurement audits 1. Closed contracts
management plan 2. Records management 2. Organizational process
2. Contract management system assets (update contract file,
plan deliverable acceptance, and
3. Contract documentation lessons learned
4. Contract closure documentation)
procedure