The 9 Areas of Knowledge of Project Management

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The 9 Areas of Knowledge of Project Management The project management institute recognizes the 9 areas of knowledge in project management as part of a project management body of knowledge. The PMBOK is composed by five basic process groups that affect the operations, manufacturing, planning, marketing, and finance decision making processes. Those 5 processes are: Initiating, Planning, Executing, Monitoring / Controlling, and Closing. The rest of the PMBOK is composed by the 9 areas of knowledge; these 9 areas contain and are influenced by some or all of the 5 processes. The 9 areas of knowledge are essential for the success of project management, accurate forecasting and planning, and productivity and profitability of the results of the project. The first area identified by the project management institute is the project integration management; this area of knowledge involves all the methods and activities required and related to recognize, explain, associate, combine, and direct the different methods, processes, and required actions to develop and implement successful project management activities and process groups. It is important to know that this area is the only one that involves a process in all of the 5 basic process groups of the PMBOK, there are six processes of integration in this area: Initiation where the project charter is developed, the planning process where the project management plan is developed, the executing process where you direct and manage the project execution, monitoring and controlling processes involve the monitor and control of the project work and the perform integrated change control, the closing process related to the action of close the project or phase. A process is complex package of interconnected activities required and necessary to complete or reach the completion, assemblage, or construction of a planned result, production
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