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| A temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product, service or result. |
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| Initiating, Planning, Execution, Monitoring & Controlling, and Closing |
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| The application of knowledge, skills, tools and techniques to project activities to meet project requirements |
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| Scope, Budget, Quality, Risk, Resources, Schedule |
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| Collection of projects or programs and other work that are grouped together to facilitate effective project manangement of that work to meet strategic business objectives |
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| Group of projects managed in a coordinated way to obtain benefits and control not available from managing them individually. |
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| Project Management Office (PMO) |
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| An organizational body or entity assigned various responsibilities related to centralized and coordinated management of those projects under its domain. A primary role of the PMO is to support project managers in a variety of ways. |
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| An organizational function performing the ongoing execution of activities that produce the same product or provide a repetitive service. |
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| Collection of generally sequential sometimes overlapping project phases whose name and number are determined by the management and control needs of the organization or organizations involved in the project. |
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| Divisions within a project where extra control is needed to effectively manage the completion of a major deliverable. |
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| Sequential Phase Relationship |
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| A phase can only start once the previous phase has completed. |
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| Overlapping Phase Relationship |
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| The phase starts prior to completion of the previous one. Can sometimes be applied as an example of schedule compression technique. |
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| Iterative Phase Relationship |
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| Only one phase is planned at a time and the planning for the next phase is carried out as work progresses on the current phast |
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| Organizational process assets |
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Can be divided into two categories:
1. Processes and procedures
2. Corporate knowledge base |
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| Set of interrelated actions and activities performed to achieve a pre-specified product, result or service |
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| Those processes performed to define a new project of a new phase of an existing project by obtaining authorization to start the project or phase. |
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| Those processes required to establish the scope of the project, refine the objectives and define the course of action required to attain the objectives that the project was undertaken to achieve. |
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| Those processes performed to complete the work defined in the project management plan to satisfy the project specifications. |
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| Monitoring and Controlling Process Group |
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| Those processes required to track, review and regulate the progress and performance of the project; identify any area in which changes to the plan are required; and initiate the corresponding changes. |
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| Those processes performed to finalize all activities across al Process Groups to formally close the project or phase. |
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