Project Management Process

This post should act as the road map for all our coming posts. We will list today all best practice project management process as per PMI-PMBOK [Project Management Institute – Project Management Body Of Knowledge]. Later on, I will write a detailed post for each process.

Overview:

As per PMI we can look at project life cycle from 2 different angels as follows:

•  Project Process Group
• Project Management Knowledge Area

But before we go deep in details lets first try to differentiate between the following 2 terms:

• Product Life Cycle:
• Project Life Cycle:

Now let’s take a look on the 5 Project management process group, this is should be equivalent to Deming cycle [PDCA: Plan – Do – Check – Act]:

Project Management Process Group [5 Process Groups – 47 Processes]

1.          Initiation ( 2 Process)
2.          Planning (24 Process )
3.          Execution (8 Process)
4.          Monitor & control. (11 Process )
5.          Closing. (2 process )

Project Management Knowledge area [10 Knowledge Areas – 47 Processes]:

1.          Integration (6 Processes)
2.          Scope management. ( 6 Processes)
3.          Time management. (7 Processes)
4.          Cost management. (4 Processes)
5.          Quality management. (3 Process )
6.          HR management. (4 Process)
7.          Communication Management. (3 Process)
8.          Risk Management. (6 Process)
9.          Procurement Management. (4 Process)
10.          Stakeholder Management. (4 Process)

The following table shows the interrelation between process groups, Knowledge areas & processes:

KA/PG*	Initiation	Planning	Execution	Monitor & control	Closing
Integration	*Develop Project Charter	* Develop Project Management Plan	*Direct & Manage Project Work	*Monitor & control Project Work *Perform integrated change control	*Close Project or Phase
Scope management		*Plan Scope *Collect Requirements *Define scope *Create WBS		*Validate scope *Control Scope
Time management		*Plan schedule *Define activities *Sequence activities. *Estimate activity resources. *Estimate activity duration *Develop schedule		*Control Schedule
Cost management		*Plan cost. *Estimate Cost. *Calculate Budget		*Control Cost
Quality management		*Plan Quality	*Quality Assurance	*Quality Control
HR management		*Plan HR	*Acquire Team *Develop team *Manage Team
Communication Management		*Plan Communicate	*Manage communication	* Control Communication
Risk Management		*Plan Risk *Identify Risk *Qualitative analysis. *Quantitative Analysis. *Risk Response		*Control Risk
Procurement Management		*Plan Procurement	*conduct Procurement	*Control Procurement	*Close Procurement
Stakeholder Management	*Identify SH	*Plan SH	*Manage SH	*Control SH