Project Management Knowledge Area Definitions

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Project Integration Management

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Includes the processes and activities needed to identify, define, combine, unify, and coordinate the various processes and project management activities within the Project Management Process Groups. In the project management context, integration includes characteristics of unification, consolidation, articulation, and integrative actions that are crucial to project completion, successfully managing stakeholder expectations, and meeting requirements.

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Project Scope Management

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Includes the processes required to ensure that the project includes all the work required, and only the work required, to complete the project successfully. Managing the project scope is primarily concerned with defining and controlling what is and is not included in the project.

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Project Time Management

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Includes the processes required to accomplish timely completion of the project

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Project Scope Management

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Includes the processes involved in estimating, budgeting, and controlling costs so that the project can be completed within the approved budget.

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Project Quality Management

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Includes the processes and activities of the performing organization that determine quality policies, objectives, and responsibilities so that the project will satisfy the needs for which it was undertaken. It implements the quality management system through policy and procedures with continuous process improvement activities conducted throughout, as appropriate.

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Project Human Resource Management

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Includes the processes that organize, manage, and lead the project team. The project team is comprised of the people with assigned roles and responsibilities for completing the project.

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Project Communications Management

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Includes the processes required to ensure timely and appropriate generation, collection, distribution, storage, retrieval, and ultimate disposition of project information.

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Project Risk Management

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Includes the processes of conducting risk management planning, identification, analysis, response planning, and monitoring and control on a project. The objectives of Project Risk Management are to increase the probability and impact of positive events, and decrease the probability and impact of the negative events in the project.

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Project Procurement Management

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Includes the processes necessary to purchase or acquire products, services, or results needed from outside the project team to perform the work. Project Procurement Management includes the contract management and change control processes required to develop and administer contracts or purchase orders issued by authorized project team members.