4. The Quantitative Project Management
process area involves
■ The Quantitative Project Management process area involves the following activities: Establishing and
maintaining the project’s quality and process performance objectives
■ Composing a defined process for the project to help to achieve the project's quality and process
performance objectives
■ Selecting sub processes and attributes critical to understanding performance and that help to achieve
the project’s quality and process performance objectives
■ Selecting measures and analytic techniques to be used in quantitative management
■ Monitoring the performance of selected sub processes using statistical and other quantitative
techniques
■ Managing the project using statistical and other quantitative techniques to determine whether or not
the project’s objectives for quality and process performance are being satisfied
■ Performing root cause analysis of selected issues to address deficiencies in achieving the project’s
quality and process performance objectives
5. Examples of other groups and functions that
could benefit from using this process area
include the following:
■ Quality assurance or quality control functions
■ Process definition and improvement
■ Internal research and development functions
■ Risk identification and management functions
■ Technology scouting functions
■ Market research
■ Customer satisfaction assessment
■ Problem tracking and reporting