Project Management Process PMBOK 6 – Overall Process Definition, by Kassime Toure, CCM, PMP
Knowledge Initiating Planning Executing
areas
4. Project Authorizing the Defining, preparing, integrating, • Performing project work
existence of a and coordinating all subsidiary
Integration project and plans into a project
Management providing the PM management plan
with authority to
apply
organizational
resources to project
activities.
5. Project • Documenting how scope will be
defined, validated and controlled.
Scope • Determining stakeholder needs.
Management • Developing a detailed project and
product description.
• Decomposing project work into
smaller components.
6. Project • Documenting how the schedule
will be developed and controlled.
Schedule • Identifying the steps required to
Management produce project Deliverable.
• Identifying relationships (or order)
of project activities.
• Estimate the # of work periods
needed to complete activities.
• Analyzing activities sequences
and durations to create the project
schedule.
7. Project Cost • Documenting how to estimate and
control project costs.
Management • Approximate the finances needed
to complete the project activities.
• Aggregating the costs of
individual activities or work
packages to establish a cost
baseline.
8. Project Identifying quality requirements
and documenting how to the
Quality project will demonstrate
Management compliance with quality
(QMP) requirements and/or standards
9. Project • Identifying and Documenting
projects roles, responsibilities
Resources and creating a staffing
Management management plan
• Estimating the manpower,
materials, and equipment
needed to perform the project
work
10. Project Developing a plan for
communications based on the
Communication information needs of
Management stakeholders and the needs of
the project.
11. Project Risk • Defining how to conduct risk
management for a project.
Management • Detecting which risks that
might affect the project.
• Prioritizing risks by evaluating
their probability and impact.
• Numerically analyzing the
effect of risks on overall project
objectives
• Defining strategies and actions
to address project risks.
12. Project Documenting the procurement
decisions, specifying the
Procurement approach, and identifying
Management potential sellers.
13. Project Identifies, Developing approaches to
describes, and involve project stakeholder,
Stakeholder classifies people based on their needs,
Management and entities that expectations, interests, and
might affect or be potential impact on the project.
affected by project
activities or
outcomes.
Monitoring & Closing
Controlling
• Tracking and reporting overall Finalizing all
defined in the project progress to meet the activities for
management plan and performance objectives the project,
implementing approved defined in the project phase, or
changes request. management plan. contract.
• Creating and using
knowledge to support the • Reviewing and approving
project and the organization. change requests and
communicating the decisions
• Formalizing acceptance of
completed deliverables.
• Monitoring the status of the
project and product scope
managing changes to the
scope baseline
Monitoring progress of
activities and managing
changes to the schedule
baseline
Monitoring project costs and
managing changes to the cost
baseline
Translating the QMP into Monitoring outcomes of quality
executable quality activities activities to evaluate
that incorporate the performance, and ensuring the
organization’s policies into project outputs are complete
the project and meet customer
expectations
• Obtaining the manpower, Ensuring that the physical
materials, and equipment resources assigned and
needed to complete the allocated to the project are
project available as planned, as well
• Improving team skills and as monitoring the planned
relations to enhance project versus actual utilization of
performance resources and performing
• Tracking team member corrective action as necessary
performance, providing
feedback, and resolving
issues.
Ensuring timely and Monitoring communications to
appropriate collection, ensure stakeholders needs are
distributing and the ultimate met
disposition of project
information.
Putting risk response plans Monitoring the implementation
into effect. of agreed-upon risk response
plans, tracking identified risks,
identifying and analyzing new
risks, and evaluating risk
process effectiveness
throughout the project.
Collecting sellers’ responses, Managing procurement
choosing a seller, and relationships and monitoring
awarding a contract contract performance.
Communicating and working Monitoring project stakeholder
with stakeholder to meet their relationships, and tailoring
needs and expectations, strategies for engaging
address issues, and foster stakeholders through the
appropriate stakeholders’ modification of engagement
involvement. strategies and plans.