Select Project Manager

Determine company culture and existing systems

Collect processes, procedures and historical information

Divide large projects into phases

Understand the business case

Uncover initial requirements, assumptions, risks, constraints and existing agreements

Assess project and product feasibility within the given constraints

Create measurable objectives

Develop project charter

Identify stakeholders and determine their expectations, influence and impact

Determine how you will plan for each knowledge area

Planning - 1

Determine detailed requirements

Create project scope statement

Assess what to purchase and create procurement documents

Determine planning team

Create WBS and WBS dictionary

Create activity list

Create network diagram

Estimate resource requirements

Estimate time and cost

Determine critical path

Develop schedule

Develop budget

Determine quality standards, processes and metrics

Create process improvement plan

Determine all roles and responsibilities

Plan communications and stakeholder engagement

Perform risk identification, qualitative and quantitative risk analysis and risk response planning

Go back - iterations

Finalize procurement documents

Create change management plan

Finalize the "how to execute and control" parts of all managment plans

Develop realistic and final PM plan and performance measurement baseline

Gain formal approval of the plan

Hold kickoff meeting

Execute the work according to the PM plan

Produce product deliverables

(product scope)

Gather work performance data

Request change

Implement only approved changes

Continuously improve

Follow processes

Determine whether processes are correct and effective

(quality assurance)

Perform quality audits

Acquire final team

Manage people

Evaluate team and individual performance

Hold team-building activities

Give recognition and rewards

Use issue logs

Facilitate conflict resolution

Release resources as work is completed

Send and receive information and solicit feedback

Report on project performance

Manage stakeholder engagement and expectations

Hold meetings

Select sellers

Take action to control the project

Measure performance against the performance measurement baseline

Measure performance against other metrics in the PM plan

Analyze and evaluate performance

Determine if variances warrant a corrective action or other change request

Influence the factors that cause changes

Request changes

Perform integrated change control

Approve or reject change

Update the PM plan and project documents

Inform stakeholders of the results of change request

Monitor stakeholder engagement

Manage configuration

Create forecasts

Gain acceptance of interim deliverables from the customer

Perform quality control

Perform risk reassessments and audits

Manage reserves

Control procurements

Confirm work is done to requirements

Complete procurement closure

Gain final acceptance of the product

Complete financial closure

Hand off completed product

Solicit feedback from the customer about the project

Complete final performance reporting

Index and archive records

Gather final lessons learned and update knowledge base