Pmp Process Descriptions

Front 1

Develop Project Charter

Back 1

This process is concerned with authorizing the project or project phase. It provides the project manager with the authority to apply resources to the project.

Front 2

Develop Preliminary Project Scope Statement

Back 2

This process defines what the project entails, capture the intended outcome and deliverables, and describe the business objectives.

Front 3

Develop Project Management Plan

Back 3

This process defines, coordinates, and integrates all subsidiary project plans, which may include project scope management plan, schedule management plan, cost management plan, quality management plan, and process improvement plan.

Front 4

Scope Planning

Back 4

This process documents the scope management plan, which tells how the project team will go about defining project scope, how the WBS will be developed, how changes to scope will be controlled, and how project scope will be verified.

Front 5

Scope Definition

Back 5

This process further elaborates the objectives and deliverables of the project into a project scope statement that’s used as a basis for future project decisions.

Front 6

Create Work Breakdown Structure

Back 6

This process maps out the deliverables of the project with subdeliverables and other components stemming from each major deliverable in a tree or chart format.

Front 7

Activity Definition

Back 7

This process identifies the activities of the project that need to be performed to produce the product or service of the project.

Front 8

Activity Sequencing

Back 8

This process sequences activities in logical order and determines if dependencies exist among the activities.

Front 9

Activity Resource Estimating

Back 9

This process determines the type of resources needed (both human and material) and in what quantities for each schedule activity within a work package.

Front 10

Activity Duration Estimating

Back 10

This process assesses the number of work periods needed to complete the project activities.

Front 11

Schedule Development

Back 11

This process calculates and prepares the schedule of project activities, which becomes the schedule baseline.

Front 12

Cost Estimating

Back 12

This process develops and approximation of the cost of resources needed for each project activity.

Front 13

Cost Budgeting

Back 13

This process assigns cost estimates to activities and is used to create the cost baseline.

Front 14

Quality Planning

Back 14

This process is concerned with targeting quality standards that are relevant to the project at hand and devising a plan to meet and satisfy those standards.

Front 15

HR Planning

Back 15

This process documents the roles and responsibilities of individuals or groups for various project elements and then documents the reporting relationships for each.

Front 16

Communication Planning

Back 16

This process involves determining the communication needs of the stakeholders by defining the types of information needed, the format for communicating the information, how often it’s distributed, and who prepares it.

Front 17

Risk Management Planning

Back 17

This process determines how the risks will be managed for a project.

Front 18

Risk Identification

Back 18

This process identifies the potential project risks and documents their characteristics.

Front 19

Qualitative Risk Analysis

Back 19

This process determines what impact the identified risks will have on the project and the probability that they’ll occur and puts the risks in priority order according to their effect on the project objectives.

Front 20

Quantitative Risk Analysis

Back 20

This process assigns numeric probabilities to each identified risk and examines their potential impact to the project objectives.

Front 21

Risk Response Planning

Back 21

This process defines what steps to take to reduce threats and take advantage of opportunities and assigns departments or individual staff members the responsibility of carrying out the risk response plans developed in this process.

Front 22

Plan Purchases and Acquisitions

Back 22

This process involves identifying the goods or services that will be purchased from outside of the organization, the quantity needed, and when they need to be purchased.

Front 23

Plan Contracting

Back 23

This process prepares the documents used in the Request Seller Responses and Select Sellers processes.

Front 24

Direct and Manage Project Execution

Back 24

This process involves carrying out the project plan. Activities are clarified, the work is authorized to begin, resources are committed and assigned to activities, and the product or service of the project is created. Most of the budget is spent here.

Front 25

Acquire Project Team

Back 25

This process involves attaining human resources and assigning them to the project.

Front 26

Develop Project Team

Back 26

This process concerns creating an open, encouraging environment for team members as well as developing them into an effective, functioning, coordinated group.

Front 27

Request Seller Response

Back 27

This process involves obtaining bids and proposals from vendors in response to RFPs and similar documents prepared during the Plan Contracting process.

Front 28

Select Seller

Back 28

This process involves the receipt of bids or proposals and choosing a vendor to perform the work or supply the goods or services.

Front 29

Monitor and Control Project Work

Back 29

This process is concerned with monitoring all the processes in the Initiating, Planning, Executing, and Closing process groups.

Front 30

Integrated Change Control

Back 30

This process is concerned with influencing the things that cause change, determining that change is needed or has happened, and managing change.

Front 31

Scope Verification

Back 31

This process formalizes the acceptance of the project scope and is primarily concerned with the acceptance of work results.

Front 32

Scope Control

Back 32

This process involves documenting and managing changes to project scope.

Front 33

Schedule Control

Back 33

This process involves documenting and managing changes to the project schedule.

Front 34

Perform Quality Assurance

Back 34

This process involves performing systematic quality activities and uses quality audits to determine which processes should be used to achieve the project requirements and to assure that they are performed efficiently and effectively.

Front 35

Information Distribution

Back 35

This process is concerned with providing stakeholders with information regarding the project in a timely manner via status reports, project meetings, review meetings, e-mail, etc.

Front 36

Cost Control

Back 36

This process manages the changes to project costs using the cost change control system.

Front 37

Perform Quality Control

Back 37

This process is concerned with monitoring work results to see if they fulfill the quality standards set out in the quality management plan. Also determines if end product conforms to the requirements.

Front 38

Manage Project Team

Back 38

This process is concerned with tracking and reporting on the performance of individual team members and preparing performance appraisals.

Front 39

Performance Reporting

Back 39

This process concerns collecting and distributing performance information, including status reporting, progress measurement, and forecasting.

Front 40

Manage Stakeholders

Back 40

This process is concerned with satisfying the needs of the stakeholders by managing communications with them, resolving issues, and improving project performance by implementing requested changes.

Front 41

Risk Monitoring and Control

Back 41

This process involves responding to risks as they occur. The risk management plan details how risk is managed, and the risk response plan details how risk response strategies are implemented in the event of an actual risk event.

Front 42

Contract Administration

Back 42

This process involves monitoring vendor performance and ensuring that all of the requirements of the contract are met.

Front 43

Close Project

Back 43

This process is concerned with gathering and disseminating information to formalize project closure.

Front 44

Contract Closure

Back 44

This process is concerned with completing and settling the terms of the contract and determines if the work described in the contract was completed accurately and satisfactorily.