4.1 Project Plan Development | 4.2 Project Plan Execution | 4.3 Integrated Change Control |
Integration | Scope | Time | Cost | Quality | Resource | Communications | Risk | Procurement |
Project Integration Management includes the processes required to ensure that the
various elements of the project are properly coordinated. It involves making tradeoffs
among competing objectives and alternatives in order to meet or exceed stakeholder
needs and expectations. While all project management processes are integrative
to some extent, the processes described in this chapter are primarily
integrative.
Figure 4-1
provides an overview of the following major processes:
These processes interact with each other and with the processes in the other
knowledge areas as well. Each process may involve effort from one or more individ-uals
or groups of individuals based on the needs of the project. Each process general-ly
occurs at least once in every project phase.
The work of the project must be integrated with the ongoing operations
of the performing organization.
Product scope and project scope must be integrated (the difference between
product and project scope is discussed in the introduction to
Chapter 5).
One of the techniques used to both integrate the various processes and to measure the
performance of the project as it moves from initiation through to completion is Earned Value
Management (EVM). EVM will be discussed in this chapter as a project integrating methodology,
while earned value (EV), the technique, will be discussed in other chapter as a tool to
measure performance against the project plan.
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