Project Management in Information Technology

Project scope management includes the processes involved in defining and controlling what is or is not included in a project. The are five main processes involved in project scope management. (referring to the table on chapter 04.) 1. Scope planning - the main output of the scope planning is the scope management plan which is a document that includes the necessary information for the team will create the project scope statement, how to create a WBS (work breakdown structure), control the deliverables and than control the closing process. As a key output of scope management plan includes a project charter which describes the high level goals for the project. It contains a title, project start and finished date as estimated, project managers information and contact, project objectives and so on until the comments about the project. 2. Project definition - the main output of project definition is creating a project scope statement . It comes after the preliminary scope statement and pro...

Project Integration Management is the first knowledge area that we will focus on. Itinvolves coordinating all the other project management knowledge areas throughout a project's life cycle. There are seven main processes involved in project integration management: 1. Develop the project charter, 2. Develop the preliminary project scope statement, 3. Develop the project management plan, 4. Direct and manage project execution, 5. Monitor and control the project work, 6. Perform integrated change control, 7. Close the project. Now I will focus only on project integration management and its seven process groups. Through the other lessons, I will go in details about each of the other knowledge areas. main processes. The table in the end of this lesson will be used as a reference also in other lessons. Under initiating phase we have: a) Project Charter - it is a document that formally recognizes the existence of a project and provides direction on the project's objectives and manag...