PMI Project Management Processes

Plan Cost Management

The process that establishes the policies, procedures, and documentation for planning, managing, expending, and controlling project costs.

Create WBS

The process of subdividing project deliverables and project work into smaller, more manageable components.

Manage Project Team

The process of tracking team member performance, providing feedback, resolving issues, and managaing changes to optimize project performance.

Monitor and Control Project Work

The process of tracking, reviewing, and reporting project progress against the performance objecives defined in the project management plan.

Sequence Activities

The proces of identifying and documenting relationships among the project activities.

Determine Budget

The process of aggregating the estimated costs of individual activities or work packages to establish an authorized cost baseline.

Develop Schedule

The process of analyzing activity sequences, durations, resource requirements, and schedule constraints to create the project schedule model.

Perform Quality Assurance

The process of auditing the quality requirements and the results from quality control measurements to ensure that appropriate quality standards and operational definitions are used.

Manage Stakeholder Engagement

The process of communicating and working with stakeholders to meet their needs/expectations, address issues as they occur, and foster appropriate stakeholder engagement in project activities throughout the project life cycle.

Close Procurements

The process of completing each project procurement.

Acquire Project Team

The process of confirming human resource availablity and obtaining the team necessary to complete project activities.

Plan Scope Management

The process of creating a scope managment plan that documents how the project scope will be defined, validated, and controlled.

Manage Communications

The process of creating, collecting, distributing, storing, retrieving and the ultimate disposition of project information in accordance with the communications management plan.

Plan Risk Management

The process of defining how to conduct risk management activities for a project.

Develop Project Management Plan

The process of defining, preparing, and coordinating all subsidary plans and integrating them into a comprehensive project management plan. The project's integrated baselines and subsidary plans may be included within the project management plan.

Identify Risks

The process of determining which risks may affect the project and documenting their characteristics.

Collect Requirements

The process of determining, documenting, and managing stakeholder needs and requirements to meet project objectives.

Define Scope

The process of developing a detailed description of the project and product.

Develop Project Charter

The process of developing a document that formally authorizes the existence of a project and provides the project manager with the authority to apply organizational resources to project activities.

Plan Communication Management

The process of developing an appropriate approach and plan for project communications based on stakeholder's information needs and requiremetns, and available organizational assets.

Estimate Costs

The process of developing an approximation of the monetary resources needed to complete the project activities.

Plan Stakeholder Management

The process of developing appropriate management strategies to effectively engage stakeholders throughout the project life cycle, based on the analysis of their needs, interests, and potential impact on project success.

Plan Risk Responses

The process of developing options and actions to enhance opportunities and to reduce threats to project objectives.

Plan Procurement Management

The process of documenting project procurement decisions, specifying the approach, and identifying potential sellers.

Plan Schedule Management

The process of establishing the policies, procedures, and documentaton for planning, developing, managing, executing and controlling the project schedule.

Estimate Activity Durations

The process of estimating the number of work periods needed to complete individual activities with estimated resources.

Estimate Activity Resources

The process of estimating the type and quantities of material, human resources, equipment, or supplies required to perform each activity.

Close Project or Phase

The process of finalizing all activities across all of the Project Management Process Groups to formally complete the phase or project.

Validate Scope

The process of formalizing acceptance of the completed project deliverables.

Plan Human Resource Management

The process of identifying and documenting project roles, responsiblities, required skills, reporting relationships, and creating a staffing management plan.

Define Activities

The process of identifying and documenting the specific actions to be performed to produce the project deliverables.

Plan Quality Management

The process of identifying quality requirements and/or standards for the project and its deliverables and documenting how the project will demostrate compliance with quality requirements.

Identify Stakeholders

The process of identifying the people, groups, or organizations that could impact or be impacted by a decision, activity, or outcome of the project; and analyzing and documenting relevant information regarding their interests, involvement, interdependencies, influence, and potential impact on project success.

Control Risks

The process of implementing risk response plans, tracking identified risks, monitoring residual risks, identifying new risks, and evaluating risk process effectiveness throughout the project.

Develop Project Team

The process of improving comptencies, team member interaction, and overall team environment to enhance project performance.

Direct and Manage Project Work

The process of leading and performing the work defined in the project management plan and implementing approved changes to achieve the project's objectives.

Control Procurements

The process of managing procurement relationships, monitoring contract performance, and making changes and corrections as appropriate.

Control Scope

The process of mointoring the status of the project and product scope and managing changes to the scope baseline.

Control Communications

The process of monitoring and controlling communications throughout the entire project life cycle to ensure the information needs of the project stakeholders are met.

Control Quality

The process of monitoring and recording results of executing the quality activities to assess performance and recommend necessary changes.

Control Stakholder Engagement

The process of monitoring overall project stakeholder relationships and adjusting strategies and plans for engaging stakeholders.

Control Schedule

The process of monitoring the status of project activities to update project progress and manage changes to the schedule baseline to achieve the plan.

Control Costs

The process of monitoring the status of the project to update the project costs and managing changes to the cost baseline.

Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis

The process of numerically analyzing the effect of identified risks on overall project objectives.

Conduct Procurements

The process of obtaining seller responses, selecting a seller, and awarding a contract.

Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis

The process of prioritizing risks for further analysis or action by assessing and combining their probablitity of occurrence and impact.

Performed Integrated Change Control

The process of reviewing all change requests; approving changes and managing changes to deliverables, organizational process assets, project documents, and the project management plan; and communicating their disposition.