Briefly describe what happens in each of the five project management process groups

A methodology describes how things should be done, and different organizations often have different ways of doing things.

In addition to using the PMBOK® Guide as a basis for project management methodology,
many organizations use others, such as the following:

• PRojects IN Controlled Environments (PRINCE2): Originally developed for information technology projects, PRINCE2 was released in 1996 as a generic project management methodology by the U.K. Office of Government Commerce (OCG). It is the de facto standard in the United Kingdom and is used in over 50 countries. PRINCE2 defines 45 separate subprocesses and organizes these into eight process groups as follows:
1. Starting up a project
2. Planning
3. Initiating a project
4. Directing a project
5. Controlling a stage
6. Managing product delivery
7. Managing stage boundaries
8. Closing a project

• Agile methodologies: Agile software development is a form of adaptive software development. All agile methodologies include an iterative workflow and incremental delivery of software in short iterations. Several popular agile methodologies include extreme programming, scrum, feature driven development, lean software development, Agile Unified Process (AUP), Crystal, and Dynamic Systems Development Method (DSDM).

• Rational Unified Process (RUP) framework: RUP is an iterative software development process that focuses on team productivity and delivers software best practices to all team members. According to RUP expert Bill Cottrell, "RUP embodies industry-standard management and technical methods and techniques to provide a software engineering process particularly suited to creating and maintaining component-based software system solutions." Cottrell explains that you can tailor RUP to include the PMBOK process groups, since several customers asked for that capability. There are several other project management methodologies specifically for software development projects such as Joint Application Development (JAD) and Rapid Application Development (RAD).

• Six Sigma methodologies: Many organizations have projects underway that use Six Sigma methodologies. The work of many project quality experts contributed to the development of today's Six Sigma principles. Two main methodologies are used on Six Sigma projects: DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, and Control) is used to improve an existing business process, and DMADV (Define, Measure, Analyze, Design, and Verify) is used to create new product or process designs to achieve predictable, defect-free performance.

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3. Briefly describe what happens in each of the five project management process groups (initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling, and closing). What types of activities occur before

Chapter 3, End of Chapter, Discussion Questions, Exercise 1

Briefly describe what happens in each of the five project management process groups (initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling, and closing). What types of activities occur before initiating a project?

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Five Project management Process Groups can be considered, analysed.The objective of the each phase is to understood.

Explanation

• Project management is the process of the managing a project,which contain several phases and several steps.
• Few of the important assets that is always to be kept in mind while doing any kind of project is time, resources and cost.
• The project management group mainly consists of five process which it progress the project form the initial stage to the final stage.
• The five phases of the group is as follows,Initiating, Planning,Executing,Monitoring and Controlling, Closing.
• The steps and the process involved in each of the project may vary according to the type of the project.
• But despite of the project, the project group phase is mandatory and to be included.

Sample Response

• In the Initiating process, the project is  explained and approved, the rejection or approval of the project takes place in this phase.
• In the Planning process, maintain and design to frame the project management plan.
• In the Executing process complete the work according to the definition in the project plan by coordinating with the people and resources.
• In the Monitoring and Controlling process, scale the result, i.e. each step of the execution process is closely monitored, reviewed and corrected.
• In the Closing process, project termination is done after installing all the tasks and activities of the project.

Before initiating a project, the following activities are performed:

• Determination of  the scope of the project including  time, and cost of the project,which are the major factor.
• Recognize the project sponsor.
• Choose the project manager.
• Advance the Business Management sample.
• Determining the  project flow with the project manager, to deal with that situation.

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