Q-Relation between project management process groups to the

project management knowledge areas (PMBOK):

Project Management process Group:

The project management process groups are logical categorization activities that are organized
in the way that projects are performed.

For example, to complete a project, you go through the following processes:

 You initiate the project, including developing and approving the project charter.
 The second step is creating a project management plan.
 The third stage is to execute the project. This is where you will spend most of your time
and money.
 Monitoring and controlling is a process that happens throughout the project life cycle.
 Closing the project is the last step. Here, you close all procurement contracts, update
the lessons learned, and release the team.
The order for these activities is: initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling, and
closing. You need all these process group to complete the project.
Now, you may wonder about the knowledge areas and how they are grouped. You might be
wondering if there is any relationship between knowledge areas or between knowledge areas
and process groups.

Knowledge Areas
Knowledge areas are group processes that have common knowledge characteristics.

For instance, assume that you are developing your project plan.

Here, you will use two processes to calculate the budget: estimate costs and determine the
budget.
Next is the monitoring and controlling process.  Here, control cost is the process to control the
project costs.

Let’s take a look at the processes of estimate costs, determine budget, and control cost.

The first two belong to the planning process group, and the third belongs to the monitoring and
controlling group.
Do you see anything that these processes have in common?

Yes, they all concern the cost.

Therefore, these processes are under the cost management knowledge area of the PMBOK
Guide, even though they belong to different process groups.

Likewise, if you look at these processes:

 Plan quality process

 Perform quality assurance process
 Perform quality control process
You will notice that:

 Plan quality is a member of the planning process group

 Perform quality assurance is a member of the executing process group
 Perform quality control is a member of the monitoring and controlling process group
Now tell me, don’t they involve the same thing—quality?

Although they belong to different process groups, they are related to the quality of the project,
so they are called the project quality management knowledge area.

So, you can see that there is no logical relationship between the knowledge areas. Knowledge
areas are grouped according to the skill required to manage that particular process.

Knowledge Areas

They cover what you need to KNOW.

Process Groups

They cover what you need to DO.

Q-Which project management process group includes activity from
every single knowledge area? In which process group should you
spend the most time and money?