• Develop Project Management Plan


• Scope Planning


• Scope Definition


• Create WBS


• Activity Definition


• Activity Sequencing


• Activity Resource Estimating


• Activity Duration Estimating


• Schedule Development


• Cost Estimating


• Cost Budgeting


• Quality Planning


• Human Resource Planning


• Communications Planning


• Risk Management Planning


• Risk Identification


• Qualitative Risk Analysis


• Quantitative Risk Analysis


• Risk Response Planning


• Plan purchases and Acquisitions


• Plan Contracting

• Develop Project Charter


• Develop Preliminary Project Scope Statement

This section identifies and describes the five Project Management Process Groups required for any project. These five process Groups have clear dependencies and are performed in the same sequence on each project.

The five Process Groups are :

Initiating  Process Group - Defines and authorizes the project or a project phase

Planning Process Group - Defines and refines objectives, and plans the course of action required to attain the objectives and scope that the project was undertaken to address.

Executing Process Group - Integrates people and other resources to carry out the project management plan for the project

Monitoring and Controlling process Group - Regularly measures and monitors progress to identify variances from the project management plan so that corrective action can be taken when necessary to meet project objectives.

Closing Process Group - Formalizes acceptance of the product, service or result and brings the project or a project phase to an orderly end.

Plan-do-check-act cycle

• Project-based Organizations are those whose operations consist primarily of projects.


• Non Project-based organizations often may lack management systems designed to support project needs efficiently and effectively.

Project Stakeholders are individuals and organizations that are actively involved in the project, or whose interests may be affected as a result of project execution or project completion.

Stakeholders may have a positive or negative.

Positive stakeholders are those who would normally benefit from a successful outcome from the project, while negative stakeholders are those who see negative outcomes from the project's success.

A deliverable is a measurable, verifiable work product such as a specification, feasibility study report, detailed design document, or working prototype.