Project Integration Management includes the process and activities needed to identify, define, combine, unify and coordinate the various processes and project management activities within the Project Management Process Groups.
According to PMI following processes falls under Project Integration Management:
- Develop Project Charter
- Develop Project Management Plan
- Direct and Manage Project Execution
- Monitor and Control Project Work
- Perform Integrated Change Control
- Close Project or Phase
The most important thing in any project is that it should satisfy the stakeholder’s needs and expectation. The Project Integration Management should help to Identify and Define the project expectation set by the stake holders. The purpose of developing a Project Charter in Project Integration Management is to develop a document which authorizes a project or phase documenting the initial requirements meeting the stakeholders needs and expectation.
Once the requirement is set and the stakeholders needs and expectation are authorized, The project manager needs to prepare a plan to execute the project. This is done with the help of Develop Project Management Plan process, this process documents the actions necessary to define, prepare, integrate and coordinate all subsidiary plans. The tasks mentioned in Project Management Plan should lead a Project Team to achieve the project’s objective.
In order to achieve the Project’s objective, the task mentioned in project plan must be executed. The Direct and Manage Project Execution is a process that leads the team to perform the work mentioned in Project Plan.
The work that is done should be tracked, review should be done and the progress should be regulated so that the project meets the deadline meeting the project performance. This is done in Direct and Manage Project Execution process.
Changes occurs in any project, during the execution the stakeholders may raise changes to the original requirements. The process of reviewing all change request, approving the changes and managing changes to the deliverables, project documents and project management plan are done under the Perform Integrated Change Control.
Finally when the project comes to closure, there are many activities that needs to be finalized before the project is formally completed, these activities are done in Close Project Phase.
The above article is based on the PMI specification defined in PMBOK.
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