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Project Integration Management includes the processes and activities to identify, define, combine, unify, and
coordinate the various processes and project management activities within the Project Management Process
Groups. In the project management context, integration includes characteristics of unification, consolidation,
communication, and integrative actions that are crucial to controlled project execution through completion,
successfully managing stakeholder expectations, and meeting requirements. Project Integration Management
includes making choices about resource allocation, making trade-offs among competing objectives and
alternatives, and managing the interdependencies among the project management Knowledge Areas. The
project management processes are usually presented as discrete processes with defined interfaces while, in
practice, they overlap and interact in ways that cannot be completely detailed in the PMBOK Guide.
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Figure 4-1 provides an overview of the Project Integration Management processes, which are as follows:
4.1 develop Project charter—The process of developing a document that formally authorizes the
existence of a project and provides the project manager with the authority to apply organizational
resources to project activities.
4.2 develop Project Management Plan—The process of defining, preparing, and coordinating all
subsidiary plans and integrating them into a comprehensive project management plan. The project’s
integrated baselines and subsidiary plans may be included within the project management plan.

4.3 direct and Manage Project Work—The process of leading and performing the work defined in the
project management plan and implementing approved changes to achieve the project’s objectives.

4.4 Monitor and control Project Work—The process of tracking, reviewing, and reporting project
progress against the performance objectives defined in the project management plan.
4.5 Perform Integrated change control—The process of reviewing all change requests; approving
changes and managing changes to deliverables, organizational process assets, project documents,
and the project management plan; and communicating their disposition.
4.6 close Project or Phase—The process of finalizing all activities across all of the Project Management
Process Groups to formally complete the phase or project.

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