PROJECT INTEGRATION MANAGEMENT

Project integration management means coordinating all the other processes and activities of project management, so as to ensure that the aim of the project is achieved as efficiently as is practicably possible.

Integration is about doing the right thing at the right time to make the project happen.

-> Five provess groups that may be used in a project

-> skills required across the five together fall into ten knowledge areas

-> Most important tools: planning, communication and leadership

-> Project integration management is about linking and coordinating project and product processes and knowledge areas to ensure the best possible planning and execution of the project

Initating:

• Various project stakeholders are brought together to develop the project charter and the preliminary scope statement

Planning:

• Uses the outputs from initiation to start integrating all the detail needed to prepare, develop and coordinate the subsidiary plans produced in the project management plan

Executing:

• Completing the work specified in the project management plan, together with the implementation of the approved changes

• During execution a major output presented to the project manager is information about work performance

Monitoring and controlling:

• This information is assessed and reviewed to determine whether the project is running as planned or whether it is running at variance to the performance baselines

Closing:

• Closing the project

• The customer/sponsor (the main source of information)

• The statement of work (SOW)

• The project charter