- select project manager
- understand the business case
- determine company culture & existing systems
- collect processes, procedures, & historical information
- identify stakeholders & determine their expectations, influence, & impact
- uncover initial requirements, assumptions, risks, constraints, & existing agreements
- assess project & product feasibility within the given constraints
- divide large projects into phases
- create measurable objectives
- develop project charter
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- determine how you will plan for each knowledge area
- determine detailed requirements
- create project scope statement
- assess what to purchase & create procurement documents
- determine planning team
- create work breakdown structure & work breakdown structure dictionary
- create activity list
- create network diagram
- estimate resource requirements
- estimate time & cost
- determine critical path
- develop schedule
- develop budget
- develop quality standards, processes, & metrics
- create process improvement plan
- determine all roles & responsibilities
- plan communications & stakeholder engagement
- perform risk identification, qualitative & quantitative risk analysis, and risk response planning
- go back iterations
- finalize procurement documents
- create change management plan
- finalize the "how to execute & control" parts of all management plans
- develop realistic and final project management plan & performance measurement baseline
- gain formal approval of the plan
- hold kickoff meeting
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- execute the work according to the project management plan
- produce product deliverables (product scope)
- gather work performance data
- request changes
- implement only approved changes
- continuously improve
- follow procedures
- determine whether processes are correct & effective (quality assurance)
- perform quality audits
- acquire final team
- manage people
- evaluate team & individual performance
- hold team building activities
- give recognition & rewards
- use issue logs
- facilitate conflict resolution
- release resources as work is completed
- send & receive information, and solicit feedback
- report on project performance
- manage stakeholder engagement & expectations
- hold meetings
- select sellers
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- take action to control the project
- measure performance against the performance measurement baseline
- measure performance against other metrics in the project management plan
- analyze & evaluate performance
- determine if variances warrant a corrective action or other change request
- influence the factors that cause changes
- request changes
- perform integrated change control
- approve or reject changes
- update the project management plan & project documents
- inform stakeholders of the results of change requests
- monitor stakeholder engagement
- manage configuration
- create forecasts
- gain acceptance of interim deliverables from the customer
- perform quality control
- perform risk assessments & audits
- manage reserves
- control procurements
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- confirm work is done to requirements
- complete procurement closure
- gain final acceptance of the product
- complete financial closure
- hand off completed product
- solicit feedback from customer about the project
- complete final performance reporting
- index & archive records
- gather final lesson learned & update knowledge base
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