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6.1PM standards and process groups
Covers the skeleton of JIS Q21500 (the project management guidance standard, aligned with PMBOK): its five process groups (initiating, planning, executing, monitoring & controlling, closing), the ten subject groups (knowledge areas) that cut across them, and the role of integration management in binding the subject groups together.
The point of a project manager studying JIS Q21500 or PMBOK is not to memorize terminology or classifications. The standards serve as a shared vocabulary for diagnosing which process-group phase the project at hand is currently in, and which subject group's activity is lacking, in order to judge what to do next. What matters is not "knowing" the standard but being able to apply it to a situation.
6.1.1The five process groups
- Initiating formally authorizes the start of a project or phase and establishes the project charter. Planning works out the execution plan in detail—scope, schedule, cost, and more—and is not a one-time event; it is iterated and elaborated as circumstances change.
- Executing carries out the work per the plan and produces deliverables. Monitoring and controlling runs in parallel with executing, continuously measuring progress and performance to detect deviation from the plan and trigger corrective action. Closing finalizes acceptance of deliverables, closes out contracts, records lessons learned, and formally completes the project or phase.
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