Week 6

Project Integration Management

As PMBOK (2008) stated the processes and activities needed to integrate the various elements of project management, which are identified, defined, combined, unified, and coordinated within the Project Management Process Groups.

Project Integration Management includes the processes required to ensure that the various elements of the project are properly coordinated. It involves making tradeoffs among competing objectives and alternatives to meet or exceed stakeholder’s needs and expectations.

Figure 1: Project Integration management overview

Project Scope Management

Scope refers to all the work concerned in producing the products of the project and the processes used to create them. It defines what is or is not to be done

According to PMBOK (2008) the knowledge area of Scope Management includes the processes required to ensure that the project includes all the work, and only all the work required to complete the project successfully. It is primarily concerned with controlling what is and what is not in the scope.

Figure 2: Project Scope management overview

Project Time Management

Project Time Management includes the processes required to accomplish timely completion of the project.

PMBOK (2008)

Project Time Management is all about recording the time spent by people on a project.

                                                 Figure 3: Project Time management overview

Project Communications Management

PMBOK (2008) elaborates on Project Communications Management as it includes the processes required to ensure timely and appropriate generation, collection, distribution, storage, retrieval, and ultimate disposition of project information. 

                                                 Figure 4: Project Communication management overview

Project Risk Management

The PMBOK (2008) Guide defines Project Risk Management as; Project Risk Management 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 negative events in the project.

A risk is something that may happen and if it does, will have a positive or negative impact on the project. Risk Analysis helps you understand risk, so that you can manage it, and minimize disruption to your plans. Risk Analysis also helps you control risk in a cost-effective way.

                                                 Figure 5: Project RISK management overview

Project procurement management

According to PMBOK (2008) Project procurement management includes the processes to purchase or acquire the products, services, or results needed from outside the project team to perform the work.

Procurement Management involves getting work done by people outside the project team. Project Procurement Management includes administering contracts and change control process to manage contracts or purchase orders. 

                                                 Figure 6: Project procurement management overview

Figure 7 can be considered as a summary of 9 knowledge areas.

Figure 7: 9 knowledge areas