The way to present management processes could be for example as a discrete parts which have very well specified interfaces. In practice though they coexist and affect each other in ways that are not fully described in details here. Those IT practitioners who are most skilled and are genuine professionals are able to recognize that there is not only one mean of managing a project.
Majority of details are specified as objectives which have to be executed depending on the level of sophistication, amount of time, size as well as team?s previous experience and access to the needed information. During process realization so called Process Group is virtual what is more their constituent processes are guidelines concerning which project management knowledge together with which skills will be of upper importance to the project.
Application of appropriate management processes to the project provides possibility of revising and repeating some of them while the project is lasting. The person responsible for managing the whole namely project manager has to determine which processes the Process Groups are to employ. He also has to know who will apply them. The level of accurateness which should be kept in order to fulfil desired project objectives. There are five Project Management Process Groups which have to be present in every project which is performed. They have transparent dependencies and are executed in identical order during every project.
They are not dependent on application areas or even industry focus. Before the project is completed Individual Process Groups and their constituent processes are ITERATED. It is possible for constituent processes to interact within process group as well as among them. Every single process may specify and limit the way in which input is used in order to produce output for a given process group. In the process group we can also include various processes which are connected by the certain inputs and outputs that are the results of one process turns into input to a different one. Let?s take into consideration a monitoring and controlling process groups.
They not only monitors and controls the actions that are performed by the process group but also the overall project effort is under constant supervision. Their task is also to give feedback in order to implement different kids if needed actions. Hey are to be taken in order the project to be in complete compliance with the prior prepared project management plan. What has to be remembered is the fact that process groups are not the phases of the project.
It is possible for large project to be separated or subdivided into many various distinct phases or sub ? projects (e.g. feasibility study, design, prototype, build or test) but all of the process group processes would be as a standard procedure repeated for every single phase. There are five process groups. First one is an Initiating Process Group. This group is responsible for defining and authorising the entire project or a project phase. Second group is Planning Process Group and its function is to define and refine objectives.
It plans the necessary action which have to be taken in order to attain objectives. The third one is the Executing Process Group which integrates people and other important sources to conduct the project management plan. There is also Monitoring and Controlling Process Group which measures and monitors progress of the project. Last but not least is Closing Process Group. This process group is responsible for proper finish of all project phases.
source: PMP® Certification Resources
published: 2010-07-02 04:32:12