Project Integration Management Inputs, Tools and Techniques, and Outputs
by Project Management Process Group
1. Develop Project Charter
| Inputs | Tools and techniques | Outputs |
|---|
- Business documents
- Business case
- Benefits management plan
- Agreements
- Enterprise environmental factors
- Organizational process assets
| - Expert judgment
- Data gathering
- Brainstorming
- Focus groups
- Interviews
- Interpersonal and team skills
- Conflict management
- Facilitation
- Meeting management
- Meetings
| - Project charter
- Assumption log
|
Source: PMBOK® Guide, 6th ed., Chapter 4, section 4.1, p. 75.
2. Develop Project Management Plan
| Inputs | Tools and techniques | Outputs |
|---|
- Project charter
- Outputs from other processes
- Enterprise environmental factors
- Organizational process assets
| - Expert judgment
- Data gathering
- Brainstorming
- Checklists
- Focus groups
- Interviews
- Interpersonal and team skills
- Conflict management
- Facilitation
- Meeting management
- Meetings
| - Project management plan
|
Source: PMBOK® Guide, 6th ed., Chapter 4, section 4.2, p. 82.
3. Direct and Manage Project Work
| Inputs | Tools and techniques | Outputs |
|---|
- Project management plan
- Project documents
- Change log
- Lessons learned register
- Milestone list
- Project communications
- Project schedule
- Requirements traceability matrix
- Risk register
- Risk report
- Approved change requests
- Enterprise environmental factors
- Organizational process assets
| - Expert judgment
- Project management information system
- Meetings
| - Deliverables
- Work performance data
- Issue log
- Change requests
- Project management plan updates
- Project documents updates
- Activity list
- Assumption log
- Lessons learned register
- Requirements documentation
- Risk register
- Stakeholder register
- Organizational process assets updates
|
Source: PMBOK® Guide, 6th ed., Chapter 4, section 4.3, p. 90.
4. Manage Project Knowledge
| Inputs | Tools and techniques | Outputs |
|---|
- Project management plan
- Project documents
- Lessons learned register
- Project team assignments
- Resource breakdown structure
- Source selection criteria
- Stakeholder register
- Deliverables
- Enterprise environmental factors
- Organizational process assets
| - Expert judgment
- Knowledge management
- Information management
- Interpersonal and team skills
- Active listening
- Facilitation
- Leadership
- Networking
- Political awareness
| - Lessons learned register
- Project management plan
updates - Organizational process assets updates
|
Source: PMBOK® Guide, 6th ed., Chapter 4, section 4.4, p. 98.
5. Monitor and Control Project Work
| Inputs | Tools and techniques | Outputs |
|---|
- Project management plan
- Project documents
- Assumption log
- Basis of estimates
- Cost forecasts
- Issue log
- Lessons learned register
- Milestone list
- Quality reports
- Risk register
- Risk report
- Schedule forecasts
- Work performance information
- Agreements
- Enterprise environmental factors
- Organizational process assets
| - Expert judgment
- Data analysis
- Alternatives analysis
- Cost-benefit analysis
- Earned value analysis
- Root cause analysis
- Trend analysis
- Variance analysis
- Decision making
- Meetings
| - Work performance reports
- Change requests
- Project management plan updates
- Project documents updates
- Cost forecasts
- Issue log
- Lessons learned register
- Risk register
- Schedule forecasts
|
Source: PMBOK® Guide, 6th ed., Chapter 4, section 4.5, p. 105.
6. Perform Integrated Change Control
| Inputs | Tools and techniques | Outputs |
|---|
- Project management plan
- Change management plan
- Configuration management plan
- Scope baseline
- Schedule baseline
- Cost baseline
- Project documents
- Basis of estimates
- Requirements traceability matrix
- Risk report
- Work performance reports
- Change requests
- Enterprise environmental factors
- Organizational process assets
| - Expert judgment
- Change control tools
- Data analysis
- Alternatives analysis
- Cost-benefit analysis
- Decision making
- Voting
- Autocratic decision making
- Multicriteria decision analysis
- Meetings
| - Approved change requests
- Project management plan updates
- Project documents updates
|
Source: PMBOK® Guide, 6th ed., Chapter 4, section 4.6, p. 113.
7. Close Project or Phase
| Inputs | Tools and techniques | Outputs |
|---|
- Project charter
- Project management plan
- Project documents
- Assumption log
- Basis of estimates
- Change log
- Issue log
- Lessons learned register
- Milestone list
- Project communications
- Quality control measurements
- Quality reports
- Requirements documentation
- Risk register
- Risk report
- Accepted deliverables
- Business documents
- Business case
- Benefits management plan
- Agreements
- Procurement documentation
- Organizational process assets
| - Expert judgment
- Data analysis
- Document analysis
- Regression analysis
- Trend analysis
- Variance analysis
- Meetings
| - Project documents updates
- Final product, service, or result transition
- Final report
- Organizational process assets updates
|
Source: PMBOK® Guide, 6th ed., Chapter 4, section 4.7, p. 121.
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