Chapter 4 - Project integration management. After reading the material in this chapter, you should be able to: Describe an overall framework for project integration management as it relates to the other PM knowledge areas and the project life cycle, explain the strategic planning process and apply different project selection methods, explain the importance of creating a project charter to formally initiate projects,. | Information Technology Project Management, Sixth Edition Note: See the text itself for full citations. Describe an overall framework for project integration management as it relates to the other PM knowledge areas and the project life cycle Explain the strategic planning process and apply different project selection methods Explain the importance of creating a project charter to formally initiate projects Information Technology Project Management, Sixth Edition Describe project management plan development, understand the content of these plans, and review approaches for creating them Explain project execution, its relationship to project planning, the factors related to successful results, and tools and techniques to assist in project execution Describe the process of monitoring and controlling project work Information Technology Project Management, Sixth Edition Understand the integrated change control process, planning for and managing changes on information technology projects, and developing and using a change control system Explain the importance of developing and following good procedures for closing projects Describe how software can assist in project integration management Information Technology Project Management, Sixth Edition Project managers must coordinate all of the other knowledge areas throughout a project’s life cycle Many new project managers have trouble looking at the “big picture” and want to focus on too many details (see opening case for a real example) Project integration management is not the same thing as software integration Information Technology Project Management, Sixth Edition Develop the project charter: working with stakeholders to create the document that formally authorizes a project—the charter Develop the project management plan: coordinating all planning efforts to create a consistent, coherent document—the project management plan Direct and manage project execution: carrying out the project management plan | Information Technology Project Management, Sixth Edition Note: See the text itself for full citations. Describe an overall framework for project integration management as it relates to the other PM knowledge areas and the project life cycle Explain the strategic planning process and apply different project selection methods Explain the importance of creating a project charter to formally initiate projects Information Technology Project Management, Sixth Edition Describe project management plan development, understand the content of these plans, and review approaches for creating them Explain project execution, its relationship to project planning, the factors related to successful results, and tools and techniques to assist in project execution Describe the process of monitoring and controlling project work Information Technology Project Management, Sixth Edition Understand the integrated change control process, planning for and managing changes on information technology .
