Pajes,Cristina Mauren P.

CETS463 M6-C1

BSCE-4 09/14/2021

The 10 Project Management Knowledge Areas

1. Project Integration Management

It is the knowledge area that contains the tasks that withhold the overall project together and
integrates the project into a unified whole. This particular knowledge area touches the five phases of the
project – Initiation, Planning, Execution, Monitoring and Controlling, and Closing. Starting from
scheduling tasks, purchasing tasks, replacing team members, addressing risks, and re-scheduling tasks
everything is covered under this particular phase.

The project integration management has seven processes included in it which are:

 Develop Project Charter

 Develop Project Management Plan
 Direct and Manage Project Work
 Manage Project Knowledge
 Monitor and Control Project Work
 Perform Integrated Change Control
 Close Project or Phase
2. Project Scope Management

It  involves the project scope, that is, the work that is included in the project. The process is all about
making sure that everyone concerned with the project is clear about what the project is aimed at and
what it includes. Scope changes and alters mostly the project itself, so it is essential that the project
boundaries are well defined from the beginning and are carefully monitored. Changes can occur at any
point in time, but even the simplest of changes can have a lasting result in the outcome of the project.

The project scope management includes six processes:

 Plan Scope Management

 Collect Requirements
 Define Scope
 Create WBS
 Validate Scope
 Control Scope

3. Project Schedule Management

It is a process that refers to how the project manager manages his schedule for a particular project. It
includes the time that is catered to complete each individual task pertaining to the project’s objectives
with the desired skills, tools, and techniques. In order to become a successful project manager one has
to clearly understand the activities of the project and should possess the necessary skills to plan,
schedule, and control a project within its timeline. Apart from these skills, one must also be able to
utilize schedule management tools to help them analyze, measure, and assess their time management
techniques.

There are six important processes in project schedule management, and they are:

 Plan Schedule Management

 Define Activities
 Sequence Activities
 Estimate Activity Duration
 Develop Schedule
 Control Schedule

4. Project Cost Management

Project cost management is the process that is concerned with planning and controlling the budget of
the project. This process includes activities such as planning, budgeting, estimating, financing, funding,
managing, and monitoring costs to make sure that the project is finished within the scheduled budget.
It’s all about handling the project’s financial requirements. This phase covers and tracks the project’s
total expenditure against the actual budget to make sure that the project is moving on track and within
the fixed budget.

The project cost management process are:

 Plan Cost Management

 Estimate Costs
 Determine Budget
 Control Costs

5. Project Quality Management

Project quality management is the main criterion when it comes to determining the value of a project.
The project at all times is required to meet the standards which were originally defined for it. The
bottom line is that the quality of the project has to meet the needs of the stakeholders.

This project quality management knowledge area in covers three processes:

 Plan quality management

 Manage Quality
 Control Quality

6. Project Resource Management

In this method, it’s all about how the project manager runs the project team. Firstly, he has to
understand what resources (people, equipment, facilities, funding) are required to complete the project
at hand and then organize a team to execute the work involved. This method mainly concentrates on
how the project is carried out utilizing the desired resources to complete a project activity.

The processes included in this knowledge area are:

  Plan Resource Management
 Estimate Activity Resources
 Acquire Resources
 Develop Team
 Manage Team
 Control Resources

7. Project Communications Management

As the name suggests it is mostly about communication. 80% of the project manager’s job is to do with
communication. Project communication is what keeps all the team members on the same page, if there
exists a gap in the communication level, the project can have a negative impact on the final product of
project. Communication has to take place between the project manager, his team members, and the
stakeholders involved in the project.

This knowledge area also includes three processes:

 Plan Communications Management

 Manage Communications
 Monitor Communications

There should be planning to determine what information needs to be communicated to all stakeholders
involved in the project. This particular information must be readily available to the stakeholders and
generated in a timely fashion. The performance of the project must be accounted for by reporting the
status of the project, measuring and forecasting the project. Effective communication must be carried
out through the stakeholders so that all the requirements are met, and the existing issues are promptly
resolved.

8. Project Risk Management

Initially, in the project risk management process the project manager should conduct risk management
work, and then identify and analyze risks, later he/she should develop a risk response plan, which will
control risks on an ongoing basis. These methods are introduced one by one to understand and assess
the risks related to the project. It all depends on how one performs quantitative and qualitative risk
assessments.

There are seven project management processes involved in the risk management knowledge area in
PMBOK:

 Plan Risk Management

 Identify Risks
 Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
 Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis
 Plan Risk Responses
 Implement Risk Responses
 Monitor Risks

9. Project Procurement Management

The procurement management process isn’t something that the project manager has to do on all
projects, but it is quite common. This knowledge area relates to the process of purchasing or acquiring
products, services, or results from outside the project team. This project knowledge area keeps track of
all the project procurement and supplier work starting from planning purchases, involvement in the
surrendering and acquiring process to executing the task of the supplier. And, ultimately closing the
contract when the project reaches its conclusion.

Project Procurement Management processes include the following:

 Plan Procurement Management

 Conduct Procurement’s
 Control Procurement’s

10. Project Stakeholder Management

This is the last knowledge area .Project stakeholders play an important role in determining the success
and failure of a project. Getting stakeholders to take part in the project right from the beginning is
crucial because they are the ones who decide on what changes will meet their requirements. If the
project manager fails to involve them at the initial stage, the changes set forth by the stakeholders at a
later stage will hamper the quality and value of the project.

The four processes involved in Project Stakeholder Management:

 Identifying Stakeholders
 Plan Stakeholder Engagement
 Manage Stakeholder Engagement
 Monitor Stakeholder Engagement