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40Processes
7Domains
5Focus areas
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Governance

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Initiate Project or Phase

Establishes authority, unlocks funding, and enables structured planning and alignment.

Initiating
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Integrate and Align Project Plans

Creates one coherent direction for execution, monitoring, control, and closure.

Planning
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Plan Sourcing Strategy

Shapes delivery model, cost structure, procurement timing, risk exposure, and control over execution.

Planning
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Manage Project Execution

Turns planning into coordinated delivery while preserving alignment between intent, work, and value.

Executing
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Manage Quality Assurance

Improves confidence in future outputs by strengthening the processes that create them.

Executing
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Manage Project Knowledge

Improves decisions by making relevant knowledge available and actionable when it matters.

Executing
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Monitor and Control Project Performance

Supports timely decisions based on evidence, trends, and realistic performance interpretation.

Monitoring and Controlling
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Assess and Implement Changes

Creates a disciplined decision point where change is evaluated, approved, rejected, deferred, or implemented with full awareness of trade-offs.

Monitoring and Controlling
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Close Project or Phase

Creates a controlled ending that confirms completion, captures learning, releases resources, and protects value after delivery.

Closing

Scope

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Plan Scope Management

Defines the rules for how scope will be developed, structured, validated, and protected before detailed scope decisions become politically charged.

Planning
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Elicit and Analyze Requirements

Turns vague needs, competing expectations, and hidden constraints into analyzed requirements that can guide scope and delivery decisions.

Planning
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Define Scope

Creates a shared definition of what will be delivered, what will not be delivered, and how scope boundaries support value.

Planning
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Develop Scope Structure

Creates a shared structure for scope, whether through a WBS, WBS dictionary, epics, features, or backlog items, so work can be planned and controlled.

Planning
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Monitor and Control Scope

Creates an evidence-based control point for scope status, variance, changes, quality alignment, and stakeholder expectations.

Monitoring and Controlling
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Validate Scope

Creates a clear acceptance decision that supports closure, payment, release, transition, or corrective action.

Monitoring and Controlling

Schedule

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Finance

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Stakeholders

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Identify Stakeholders

Creates the stakeholder register and influence picture needed to plan engagement, communication, risk responses, requirements work, and governance decisions.

Initiating
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Plan Stakeholder Engagement

Creates a practical engagement strategy that defines desired engagement, messages, involvement, timing, ownership, resistance management, and escalation for each key stakeholder…

Planning
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Plan Communications Management

Creates a tailored communication strategy that supports stakeholder engagement, decision-making, accountability, transparency, escalation, and knowledge management throughout th…

Planning
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Manage Stakeholder Engagement

Improves collaboration, trust, ownership, decision speed, and adoption by actively engaging stakeholders according to their influence, concerns, and expected role in the project.

Executing
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Manage Communications

Keeps stakeholders aligned by turning project data into timely, tailored, actionable communication that enables decisions, reduces confusion, and preserves traceability.

Executing
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Monitor Stakeholder Engagement

Enables timely adjustment of engagement strategies, escalation paths, communication approaches, and stakeholder ownership before resistance or disengagement harms outcomes.

Monitoring and Controlling
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Monitor Communications

Enables timely adjustment of channels, frequency, content, escalation paths, feedback loops, and stakeholder-specific communication so decisions and execution stay aligned.

Monitoring and Controlling

Resources

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Plan Resource Management

Creates a practical resource management approach that supports realistic estimating, acquisition, role clarity, team development, performance management, and control of resource…

Planning
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Estimate Resources

Supports realistic scheduling, budgeting, procurement, capacity planning, trade-off decisions, and resource acquisition by grounding plans in activity-level needs.

Planning
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Acquire Resources

Converts resource plans into confirmed assignments and commitments, allowing the project to adjust scope, schedule, cost, or sourcing before execution is blocked.

Executing
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Lead the Team

Improves collaboration, accountability, decision speed, motivation, conflict handling, and team resilience so the project can deliver under real constraints.

Executing
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Monitor and Control Resourcing

Enables timely reallocation, workload correction, capacity decisions, escalation, and updates to resource plans so delivery remains realistic and sustainable.

Monitoring and Controlling

Risk

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Plan Risk Management

Creates the risk management framework that makes identification, analysis, response planning, monitoring, reporting, ownership, and escalation consistent and actionable.

Planning
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Identify Risks

Creates an actionable risk register with clear causes, uncertain events, potential impacts, owners, triggers, and early response ideas.

Planning
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Perform Risk Analysis

Turns risk identification into prioritization, enabling better response planning, contingency decisions, escalation, and management focus.

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Plan Risk Responses

Turns prioritized risks into deliberate decisions about mitigation, avoidance, transfer, acceptance, escalation, exploitation, enhancement, sharing, contingency, and residual ex…

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Implement Risk Responses

Turns selected risk responses into real delivery actions that reduce threats, capture opportunities, and keep residual exposure visible.

Executing
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Monitor Risks

Keeps risk management aligned with reality by driving reassessment, response adjustment, and continuous visibility.

Monitoring and Controlling