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4 - PROJECT INTEGRATION MANAGEMENT

Project Integration
Management Overview

4.1 Develop Project 4.2 Develop Project 4.3 Direct and Manage
Charter Management Plan Project Work
.1 Inputs .1 Inputs .1 Inputs
.1 Project statement of work .1 Project charter .1 Project management plan
.2 Business case .2 Outputs from other processes .2 Approved change requests
.3 Agreements .3 Enterprise environmental .3 Enterprise environmental
.4 Enterprise environmental factors factors
factors .4 Organizational process assets .4 Organizational process assets
.5 Organizational process
assets .2 Tools & Techniques .2 Tools & Techniques
.1 Expert judgment .1 Expert judgment
.2 Tools & Techniques .2 Facilitation techniques .2 Project management
.1 Expert judgment information system
.2 Facilitation techniques .3 Outputs .3 Meetings
.1 Project management plan .4 Information dissemination
.3 Outputs
.1 Project charter .3 Outputs
.1 Deliverables
.2 Work performance data
4.5 Perform Integrated .3 Change requests
Change Control .4 Project management plan
4.4 Monitor and Control updates
Project Work .1 Inputs .5 Project documents updates
.1 Project management plan .6 Demonstrations of working,
.1 Inputs .2 Work performance deliverable software
.1 Project management plan reports
.2 Schedule forecasts .3 Change requests
.3 Cost forecasts .4 Enterprise environmental
.4 Validated changes factors
.5 Work performance .5 Organizational process assets 4.6 Close Project or
information Phase
.6 Enterprise environmental .2 Tools & Techniques
factors .1 Expert judgment .1 Inputs
.7 Organizational process assets .2 Meetings .1 Project management plan
.3 Change control tools .2 Accepted deliverables
.2 Tools & Techniques .3 Organizational process assets
.1 Expert judgment .3 Outputs
.2 Analytical techniques .1 Approved change requests .2 Tools & Techniques
.3 Project management .2 Change log .1 Expert judgment
information system .3 Project management plan .2 Analytical techniques
.4 Meetings updates .3 Meetings
.4 Project documents
.3 Outputs updates .3 Outputs
.1 Change requests .1 Final product, service, or
.2 Work performance reports result transition
.3 Project management plan .2 Organizational process assets
updates updates
.4 Project documents updates

Figure 4-1. Software Project Integration Management Overview

4.1 Develop Project Charter

According to Section 4.1 of the PMBOK Guide, Develop Project Charter is the process of developing a document
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that formally authorizes the existence of a project and provides the project manager with the authority to apply
organizational resources to project activities. The inputs, tools and techniques, and outputs presented in Section 4.1
of the PMBOK Guide are applicable to developing a software project charter.
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