Planning Core Processes

Core Process
Scope Planning
Scope definition

Activity definition
Resource planning

Activity sequencing
Activity duration
estimating
Cost estimating
Risk management

Purpose

Precedes

To create a document that will guide project

decisions.
To breakdown the Project deliverables into
Manageable elements. The sum of the smaller
elements equate to the
Project scope.

Scope definition

To define the required activities, and only the

required activities, to complete the project scope.
To ascertain the required resources to achieve the
defined activities to complete the project work.
Resources include people, equipment, and
materials.
To determine the best sequence of planned
activities within the project work.
To determine the estimated required work units to
successfully complete the defined activities.
To determine an estimated amount of monies to
complete the project work using the defined
facilities, services, and goods.
To determine the risks within the project and how

Activity sequencing
Activity duration estimating
Activity duration estimating
Cost estimating

Activity definition
Resource planning
Cost estimating
Risk management
planning

Schedule development
Cost estimating
Schedule development
Cost budgeting
Schedule development

planning
Schedule
development

Cost budgeting
Project plan
development

to react to the identified risks.

To determine the project schedule based on the
sequence of activities, the required resources, and
the required monies. The schedule development
process reveals an estimated reflection of when all
of the required work can be completed with the
given resources.
To determine the estimated cost of the activities to
complete the project work.
Creating a coherent compilation of the other
planning processes to guide the project execution.

Cost budgeting
Project plan development

Project plan development

Executing processes

Facilitating Processes Support the Core Processes

Facilitating Process
Purpose
Precedes
Quality planning
To determine the quality assurance standards
used by the organization. The quality assurance
standards that are
relevant to the project must be planned into the
project.
Communications
To determine who needs what, when they need it,
planning
and in what modality (paper, electronic, and so on)
it may be needed.
Organizational
To determine the project roles and responsibility.
Staff acquisition
planning
This also determines the reporting structure

Staff acquisition
Risk identification
Qualitative risk
analysis
Quantitative risk
analysis
Risk response
planning
Procurement
planning
Solicitation planning

between the project

manager, the project team, and management.
To acquire the needed people to complete the
determined project work.
To identify the risks, rewards, and penalties
associated with the project.
To prioritize the impact of the risks on the project
(typically in a high, medium, and low ranking).
To measure and consider the probability and
associated impact of the risks on the project.
To avoid, eliminate, reduce, or create a planned
reaction to the identified risks within the project.
To determine what goods and services must be
procured and when the goods and services will
need to be procured in the project life cycle.
To determine the possible vendors to provide the
goods and services for the project.

Qualitative risk analysis

Quantitative risk analysis

Solicitation planning

The Core Process of Executing

Core Process
Project plan
execution

Purpose
To complete the project according to plan. The
project plan may also be adjusted based on the
outcome of the facilitating processes.

Precedes
Facilitating processes

Facilitating Processes Support Project Plan Execution

Core Process
Solicitation
Source selection
Contract
administration
Quality assurance

Team development
Information
distribution

Purpose
Precedes
To accept quotes, bids, proposals, and offers to
Source selection
complete the solicited work as defined through
solicitation planning.
To determine which source (vendor) will fulfill the
Contract administration
procured good or service.
To manage a fair and balanced relationship
between the buyer and the seller.
To meet the organizations quality standards. QA is
an ongoing process that
measures the quality of the work results against
the demands of the quality standards of the
performing organization.
To develop the competencies of the
project team as a whole and the individual
members on the project team.
To follow the details of the communications
management plan;
specifically to disperse the required information to
the correct parties
according to their identified needs and modalities.

Core Processes Interact with Each Other and the Facilitating Processes

Core Process
Performance
reporting
Integrated change
control

Purpose
Works with
To determine variances, project performance, and Integrated change control
forecasting of project outcome.
Facilitating processes
To manage change across all facets of the project. Performance reporting
Facilitating processes

Facilitating Processes Support the Core Processes

Facilitating Process
Scope verification
Scope change control
Schedule control
Cost control
Quality control
Risk monitoring and
control

Purpose
Precedes
To verify that phase and project deliverables are
Scope change control
in alignment with customer expectations. Scope
verification formalizes the acceptance.
To protect the project scope from change.
To prevent unnecessary changes to the schedule,
to control the flow of activities, and to forecast
completion.
To prevent unnecessary changes to the project
budget.
To conform to the required organizational quality
standards and to remove or improve faulty, below
quality, performance.
To monitor and maintain risks, responses to risk,
introduction of new and secondary risks. In
addition, allows for control of currently identified
risks and the planned responses to the identified

risks.
Closing Processes Close Out Procurement and Administrative Duties
Core Process
Contract closeout
Administrative closure

Purpose
Precedes
To complete and finalize any procurement issues Administrative closure
such as payment, inspection of procured
services and goods, and any open project items.
To gather, evaluate, and disseminate the
required information on the project or phase, its
performance, quality, and completeness.
Administrative closure also includes completing
the lessons learned document and filing for
future reference.

The Project Management Processes Map the Project Management Knowledge Areas.
Initiating
Project
integration
management
Project scope
management
Project time

Project
initiation

Planning
Developing the
project plan.
Creating and
defining the
project scope.
Defining

Executing
Project plan
execution

Controlling
Integrated
change
Control
Scope
verification
and change
control
Schedule

Closing

management

Project cost
management

Project quality
Management

Project human
resource
management
Project
communications
management

activities, their
sequence and
their estimated
duration.
Developing the
project
schedule.
Determining
the required
resources, their
estimated costs,
and completing
cost budgeting.
Planning for
Adhering to
quality.
the performing
organizations
quality
assurance
requirements.
Completing
Ensuring team
organizational
development.
planning and
staff acquisition.
Creating the
Distributing the
communications required
management
information to

control

Enforcing cost
control.

Enforcing
quality control
on the project.

Reporting on
project
performance.

Completing
administrative
closure.

plan.
Project risk
management

Project
procurement
management

Completing risk
management
planning, risk
identification,
qualitative and
quantitative risk
analysis, and
risk responses.
Completing the
procurement
and solicitation
planning.

the appropriate
parties.
Monitoring and
controlling risk.

Soliciting
vendors to
participate on
the project.
Completing
source
selection based
on defined
criterion, and
then
following
through with
contract
administration.

Completing the
contract
closeout.