Process Groups: A Practice Guide

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Introduction

This practice guide describes a process-based approach to project management. The framework for this approach is based on the five Project Management Process Groups:

▶Initiating. Those processes performed to define a new project or a new phase of an existing project by obtaining authorization to start the project or phase.

▶Planning. Those processes required to establish the scope of the project, refine the objectives, and define the course of action required to attain the objectives that the project was undertaken to achieve.

▶Executing. Those processes performed to complete the work defined in the project management plan to satisfy the project requirements.

▶Monitoring and Controlling. Those processes required to track, review, ...