A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide), these processes into 10 categories that it calls the Project Management Knowledge Areas. These groupings, or Knowledge Areas, bring together processes that have characteristics in common. For example, the Project Cost Management Knowledge Area involves all aspects of the budgeting process, as you would suspect.
2. • We talked about the five process groups and They are Initiating,
Planning, Executing, Monitoring and Controlling, and Closing. Each
process group is made up of a collection of processes used
throughout the project lifecycle.
• A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK®
Guide), these processes into 10 categories that it calls the Project
Management Knowledge Areas. These groupings, or Knowledge
Areas, bring together processes that have characteristics in common.
For example, the Project Cost Management Knowledge Area involves
all aspects of the budgeting process, as you would suspect.
3. • Therefore, processes such as Estimate Costs, Determine Budget, and
Control Costs belong to this Knowledge Area. Here’s the tricky part:
These processes don’t belong to the same project management
process groups (Estimate Costs and Determine Budget is part of the
Planning process group, and Control Costs is part of the Monitoring
and Controlling process group). Think of it this way: Knowledge Areas
bring together processes by commonalities, whereas project
management process groups are more or less the order in which you
perform the project management processes (although remember that
you can come back through these processes more than once). The
PMBOK® Guide names the
5. Project Scope Management:
• The Project Scope Management Knowledge Area has six processes,
• Collect Requirements: Planning
• Define Scope: Planning
• Create WBS: Planning
• Validate Scope: Monitoring and Controlling
• Control Scope: Monitoring and Controlling
6. • Project Scope Management is concerned with defining all the work of
the project and only the work needed to successfully produce the
project goals. These processes are highly interactive. They define and
control what is and what is not part of the project. Each process
occurs at least once—and often many times—throughout the
project’s life.
7. The Project Time Management Knowledge
Area has seven Processes:
• Plan Schedule Management: Planning
• Define Activities: Planning
• Sequence Activities: Planning
• Estimate: Activity
• Resources: Planning
• Estimate: Activity
• Duration: Planning
• Develop Schedule: Planning
• Control Schedule: Monitoring and Controlling
8. • This Knowledge Area is concerned with estimating the duration of the
project activities, devising a project schedule, and monitoring and
controlling deviations from the schedule.
• Collectively, this Knowledge Area deals with completing the project in
a timely manner. Time management is an important aspect of project
management because it concerns keeping the project activities on
track and monitoring those activities against the project management
plan to ensure that the project is completed on time.
