PMP Certification - PROJECT INTEGRATION MANAGEMENT

MODULE – 4.0

PROJECT INTEGRATION MANAGEMENT

1. Project Integration Management includes the process required to ensure that the various elements of the Project are properly coordinated and integrated throughout the project life cycle.


2. Include the process required to identify, define, combine, unify and coordinate the process and project management activities within the project management Process groups.


3. Involves in making trade off among the competing objectives and alternatives in order to meet or exceed the customer expectation.


4. Integration includes the characteristics like unification , consolidation, articulation an integrative action that are important and crucial for project completion , managing the expectation and successfully meeting customer and stakeholder requirement .


5. Project work and deliverables need to be integrated with the on going
   operation of the delivery /performing organization or the customer organization or with the long term strategic planning that takes future problems and opportunities into consideration .


6. Product scope and project scope are integrated.


7. Integration primarily concern with the effective integrating the process among the project management process groups that are required to accomplish the project objectives within organization’s defined procedure.

Process Includes :

1. Develop project charter
2. develop preliminary scope statement
3. Develop project management plan.
4. Direct and Manage Project execution.
5. Monitor and control project work
6. Integrated Change control
7. Close project

Project Initiation phase:

• The purpose of this phase is to ensure that all the project requirement are identified,
  communicated and negotiated.
• All the preparation are completed for planning and executing the project.
• It should recognize that project should begin and committed to do so.
• Some time PM may involve in the beginning of the initiation process. A PM is identified and assigned as early in the project as feasible.
• PM should be assigned prior to the start of planning and preferable while the project chartered is being developed.
• The stakeholder has the greatest ability to influence project outcome and risk is highest during initiation.
• The project has the lowest probability of success during initiation phase.
• Project is initiated internally within the organization – generally a steering committee is responsible for project initiation who are external to the project. A steering committee is responsible group of senior managers and sometime mid level managers who represents the functional areas of organization .The steering committee is responsible for project review, selection and prioritization
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