Chapter 3: Project Management Process Groups

Executing Process Group

Coordinating people and other resources to carry out the various plans and create the products, services, or results of the project or phase

Initiating Process Group

Defining and authorizing a project or project phase; take place during each phase of a project

Methodology

Describes how things should be done

Planning Process Group

Devising and maintaining a workable scheme to ensure that the project addresses the organization's needs; schemes include the scope management plan, schedule management plan, cost management plan, and procurement management plan

Closing Process Group

Formalizing acceptance of the project or project phase and ending it

Closing

Gaining stakeholder and customer acceptance of the final products and services and then bringing project or project phase to an orderly end

Main goal of project planning

Guide project execution, plans must be realistic and useful, so a fair amount of time and effort must go into the planning process

Process

Series of actions directed toward a particular result

Execution

Taking necessary actions to complete activities in a project plan

Monitoring and Controlling

Measuring progress toward project objectives, monitoring deviation from current plan, taking corrective action to match progress

Types of IT Project Management Methodologies

PRojects IN Controlled Environments (PRINCE2), Agile, Rational Unified Process (RUP), Six Sigma

Monitoring and Controlling Process Group

Regularly measuring and monitoring progress to ensure that the project team meets the project objectives.; the ideal outcome of the monitoring and controlling process group is to complete a project successfully by delivering the agreed project scope within time, cost, and quality constraints