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baselines as the main components of the project management plan. While project documents are used to assist
the project manager in managing the project, they are not part of the project management plan. The following
is a representative list of project management plan components and project documents.

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Activity attributes
Quality metrics
Activity cost estimates
Responsibility assignment matrix
Activity list
Requirements traceability matrix
Assumption log
Resource breakdown structure
Basis of estimates
Resource calendars
Change log
Resource requirements
Charter
Risk register
Contracts
Roles and responsibilities

Duration estimates
Sellers list
Forecasts
Source selection criteria
Issue log
Stakeholder analysis
Milestone list
Stakeholder management strategy
Performance reports
Stakeholder register
Project funding requirements
Stakeholder requirements
Proposals
Statement of work
Procurement documents
Teaming agreements
Project organizational structure
Team performance assessments
Quality control measurements
Work performance information
Quality checklists
Work performance measurements
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Communications management plan
Configuration management plan
Cost management plan
Cost performance baseline
Human resources plan
Process improvement plan
Procurement management plan
Quality management plan
Requirements management plan

Risk management plan
Schedule baseline
Schedule management plan
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Measurable project objectives
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High-level project description, product characteristics
Summary milestone schedule
Summary budget
Project approval requirements (what constitutes
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Assigned project manager, responsibility
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4.1 Develop Project Charter

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4.1 Develop Project Charter
4.2 Develop Preliminary Project Scope Statement

4.3 Develop Project Management Plan
4.4 Direct and Manage Project Execution
4.5 Monitor and Control Project Work
4.6 Integrated Change Control
4.7 Close Project

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used to identify those with interest in the project and involves applying techniques to create the stakeholder
requirements document.
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Fourth Edition Sections

6.1 Define Activities
6.2 Sequence Activities
6.3 Estimate Activity Resources
6.4 Estimate Activity Durations
6.5 Develop Schedule
6.6 Control Schedule

Third Edition Sections
6.1 Activity Definition
6.2 Activity Sequencing
6.3 Activity Resource Estimating
6.4 Activity Duration Estimating
6.5 Schedule Development
6.6 Schedule Control

Fourth Edition Sections
5.1 Collect Requirements
5.2 Define Scope
5.3 Create WBS
5.4 Verify Scope
5.5 Control Scope
Third Edition Sections
5.1 Scope Planning
5.2 Scope Definition
5.3 Create WBS
5.4 Scope Verification
5.5 Scope Control

A.5 Chapter 6—Project Time Management Changes


Chapter 6 reflects changes coming from within the industry and detailed in the Practice Standard
for Scheduling.

With the use of computer-supported scheduling, the Arrow Diagramming Method (ADM) and its Activity on
Arrow (AOA) is rarely used. Therefore it is no longer considered to be used on “most projects, most of the time”
and was not included in this chapter.
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Table A5. Chapter 6 Changes

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Fourth Edition Sections
8.1 Plan Quality
8.2 Perform Quality Assurance
8.3 Perform Quality Control
Third Edition Sections
8.1 Quality Planning
8.2 Perform Quality Assurance
8.3 Perform Quality Control

Fourth Edition Sections
7.1 Estimate Costs
7.2 Determine Budget
7.3 Control Costs
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7.2 Cost Budgeting
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9.2 Acquire Project Team
9.3 Develop Project Team
9.4 Manage Project Team

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9.3 Develop Project Team
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10.2 Plan Communications
10.3 Distribute Information
10.4 Manage Stakeholder Expectations
10.5 Report Performance
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10.3 Performance Reporting
10.4 Manage Stakeholders


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11.2 Risk Identification
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11.4 Quantitative Risk Analysis
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12.2 Conduct Procurements
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12.4 Close Procurements

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12.1 Plan Purchases and Acquisitions
12.2 Plan Contracting
12.3 Request Seller Responses
12.4 Select Sellers
12.5 Contract Administration
12.6 Contract Closure

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11.1 Plan Risk Management

11.2 Identify Risks
11.3 Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
11.4 Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis
11.5 Plan Risk Responses
11.6 Monitor and Control Risks
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Chapter 12 has consolidated six processes into four processes. Sections 12.1 Plan Purchases and Acquisitions
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The Project Management Institute (PMI) was founded in 1969 on the premise that there were many
management practices that were common to projects in application areas as diverse as construction and
pharmaceuticals. By the time of the PMI Montreal Seminars/Symposium in 1976, the idea that such common
practices might be documented as standards began to be widely discussed. This led, in turn, to consideration
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More than twenty-five volunteers in several local chapters assisted this group. The Ethics statement was
developed and submitted by a committee in Washington, DC, chaired by Lew Ireland. The Time Management
statement was developed through extensive meetings of a group in Southern Ontario, including Dave MacDonald,
Dave Norman, Bob Spence, Bob Hall, and Matt Parry. The Cost Management statement was developed through
extensive meetings within the cost department of Stelco, under the direction of Dave Haeney and Larry Harrison.
Other statements were developed by the ESA Management Group. Accreditation was taken up by John Adams
and his group at Western Carolina University, which resulted in the development of accreditation guidelines.
It also resulted in a program of Project Management Professional (PMP®) certification, under the guidance of
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standards. In 1984, the PMI Board of Directors approved a second standards-related project “to capture the
knowledge applied to project management … within the existing ESA framework.” Six committees were then
recruited to address each of the six identified Knowledge Areas. In addition, a workshop was scheduled as part
of the PMI 1985 Annual Seminars/Symposium.
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As a result of these efforts, a revised document was approved in principle by the PMI Board of Directors
and published for comment in the Project Management Journal in August 1986. The primary contributors to
this version of the document were:

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PMI Board of Directors approved it in March 1987. The final manuscript was published in August 1987 as a
stand-alone document titled “The Project Management Body of Knowledge.”

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publication of the 1987 version. In August 1991, PMI’s Director of Standards Alan Stretton initiated a project
to update the document based on comments received from the membership. The revised document was
developed over several years through a series of widely circulated working drafts and through workshops at

the PMI Seminars/Symposia in Dallas, Pittsburgh, and San Diego.
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The publication of A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) in 1996
represented the completion of the project initiated in 1991. Contributors and reviewers are listed later in
this section. A summary of the differences between the 1987 document and the 1996 document, which was
included in the Preface of the 1996 edition, also is listed later in this section.

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exclusive (“It should not be possible to describe any undertaking that satisfies the definition and is not
generally thought of as a project.”). Many of the definitions of project in the existing literature were
reviewed and all were found to be unsatisfactory in some way. The new definition was driven by the
unique characteristics of a project: a project is a temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique
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Revised view of the project life cycle was developed. The 1987 document defined project phases
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defined as a collection of phases whose number and names are determined by the control needs of
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Names of the major sections were changed from Function to Knowledge Areas. The term “function”
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was completed to eliminate this misunderstanding.

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project context.

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method of presentation led the team to completely restructure the 1987 document into thirty-seven

project management processes. Each process was described in terms of its inputs, outputs, and tools
and techniques. Inputs and outputs are documents (e.g., a scope statement) or documentable items
(e.g., activity dependencies). Tools and techniques are the mechanisms applied to the inputs to create
the outputs. In addition to its fundamental simplicity, this approach offered several other benefits:

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3. Project Management Processes
4. Project Integration Management

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8. Project Quality Management
6. Project Time Management
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effective as a classification tool. First, the topics included were not comprehensive—they did not

include innovative or unusual practices. Second, many elements have relevance in more than one
Knowledge Area or process, such that the categories were not unique.
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Ahmet Taspinar (Chapter 6)

Leonard Stolba (Chapter 8)
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Agnes Salvo (Chapter 11)
Hadley Reynolds (Chapter 2)

John M. Nevison (Chapter 9)
Edward Ionata (Chapter 10)

David T. Hulett (Chapter 11)
Douglas Gordon (Chapter 7)

Earl Glenwright
Anthony Rizzotto

David Curling (Chapter 12)
Louis J. Cabano (Chapter 5)

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