Project Management Process Group

Project Management Process Group & Knowledge Area Mapping*

*Taken from A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) Sixth Edition - Chapter 1

Project Management Process Groups

A Project Management Process Group is a local logical grouping of project management processes to achieve specific project objectives.

They are independent of project phases and grouped into five (5) Project Management Process Groups † .

†Note that Process Groups are not the same as project phases (project name, number, duration, resource requirements, etc.)

1. Initiating Process Group

These processes performed to define a new project or a new phase of an existing project by obtaining authorization to start the project or phase.

Initiating Process Group

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2. Planning Process Group

These processes requires to establish the scope of the project, refine the objectives, and define the course action required to attain the objectives that the project was undertaken to achieve.

3. Executing Process Group

These processes work defined in to satisfy the performed to complete the the project management plan ‡ project requirements.

Executing Process Group

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‡Project Management Plan defines how the project executed, monitored and controlled, and closed. Its content varies depending on the application area and complexity of the project.

4. Monitoring and Controlling Process Group

Monitoring and Controlling Process Group

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These process performed required to track, review, and regulate the progress and performance of the project; identify any areas in which changes to the plan are required; and initiate corresponding changes.

5. Closing Process Group

These processes performed to formally complete or close the project, phase, or contract.

Closing Process Group

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SUMMARY

Those five phases of ‘Process Groups’ also well-known as Project Life Cycle. The sequence of phase that project goes thru from its initiation to its closure.

Project management processes are linked by specific inputs and outputs where the result or outcome of one process may become the input to anotherprocess.

On the Table 1-4 shown mapping of the Project Management Process Groups and Knowledge Areas.

Table 1-4 Project Management Process Group and Knowledge Area Mapping A Guide to the Project Management Body ofKnowledge (PMBOK® Guide) –Sixth Edition. ©2017 Project ManagementInstitute, Inc. All rights reserved.

In addition to Process Groups, processes are also categorized by Knowledge Areas. It defined as an identified area of project management defined by its knowledge requirements and described in terms of its component processes, practices, inputs, outputs, tools, and techniques.

Although the Knowledge Areas are interrelated, they are defined separately from the project management perspective. The ten Knowledge Areas are used in most projects mostofthe time. Theyare:

- Project Integration Management

- Project Scope Management

- Project Schedule Management

- Project Cost Management

- Project Quality Management

- Project Resource Management

- Project Communications Management

- Project Risk Management

- Project Procurement Management

- Project Stakeholder Management