| Term | Definition |
|---|
| I | Select Project Manager |
| I | Determine company culture and existing systems |
| I | Collect processes, procedures and historical information |
| I | Divide large project into phases |
| I | Understand the business case |
| I | Uncover initial requirements and risks |
| I | Create measurable objectives |
| I | Develop project charter |
| I | Identify stakeholders |
| I | Develop stakeholder management strategy |
| P1 | Determine how you will do planning - part of management plans |
| P2 | Finalize requirements |
| P3 | Create project scope statement |
| P4 | Determine what to purchase |
| P5 | Determine team |
| P6 | Create WBS and WBS dictionary |
| P7 | Create activity list |
| P8 | Create network diagram |
| P9 | Estimate resource requirements |
| P10 | Estimate time and cost |
| P11 | Determine critical path |
| P12 | Develop schedule |
| P13 | Develop budget |
| P14 | Determine quality standards, processes and metrics |
| P15 | Create process improvement plan |
| P16 | Determine roles and responsibilities |
| P17 | Plan communications |
| P18 | Perform risk identification, qualitative and quantitative risk analysis and risk response planning |
| P19 | Go back - Iterations |
| P20 | Prepare procurement documents |
| P21 | Finalize the "how to execute and control" aspects of all management plans |
| P22 | Develop final PM plan and performance measurement baselines that are realistic |
| P23 | Gain formal approval for plan |
| P24 | Hold kickoff meeting |
| E | Execute the PM plan according to the PM plan |
| E | Produce product scope |
| E | Request changes (scope) |
| E | Implement only approved changes |
| E | Ensure common understanding |
| E | Use the work authorization system |
| E | Continuous improvement |
| E | Follow processes |
| E | Perform quality assurance |
| E | Perform quality audits |
| E | Acquire final team |
| E | Manage people |
| E | Evaluate team and project performance |
| E | Hold team-building activities |
| E | Give recognition and rewards |
| E | Use issue logs |
| E | Facilitate conflict resolution |
| E | Send and receive information |
| E | Hold meetings |
| E | Select sellers |
| MC | Take action to control the project |
| MC | Measure against the performance measurement baselines |
| MC | Measure performance against other metrics determined by the project manager |
| MC | Determine variances and if they warrant change request |
| MC | Influence the factors that cause changes |
| MC | Request changes |
| MC | Perform integrated change control |
| MC | Approve or reject changes |
| MC | Inform stakeholder of approved changes |
| MC | Manage configuration |
| MC | Create forecasts |
| MC | Gain acceptance of interim deliverables from the customer |
| MC | Perform quality control |
| MC | Report on project performance |
| MC | Perform risk audits |
| MC | Manage reserves |
| MC | Administer procurements |
| C | Confirm work is done to requirements |
| C | Complete procurement closure |
| C | Gain formal acceptance of the product |
| C | Final performance reporting |
| C | Index and archive records |
| C | Update lessons learned knowledge base |
| C | Hand off completed product |
| C | Release resources |
