KNOWLEDGE

AREAS CATEGORIES

INTEGRATION
KNOWLEDGE
AREAS

INTEGRATION

SCOPE

INITIATION
1. Project Charter
2. Business Case
3. Stakeholder Register
4. Stakeholder
Management Strategy
Analysis

1. Preliminary Scope
Statement

TIME
CORE
KNOWLEDGE
AREAS

FACILITATING
KNOWLEDGE
AREAS

SUGGESTED TOOLS/TECHNIQUES/PROCESSES
MONITORING &
PLANNING
EXECUTING
CONTROLLING

COST

1. Change Request

1. Project Management
Plan
2. Scope Statement
3. Work Breakdown
Structure
4. WBS Dictionary
5. Requirements
analysis
1. Gantt Chart
2. Network Diagram
3. Activity List
4. Activity Attributes
1. Cost Management
Plan
2. Cost Estimation

1. Work Performance
Management (Schedule
Control)
1. Earned Value
Management

1. Quality Management
1. Benchmarking (QA)
Plan
2. Quality Audit (QA)
2. Quality Checklist

HUMAN RESOURCE

1. Responsibility
Assignment Matices
2. RACI model
3. Motivation
Techniques
1. Human Resource Plan
4. Emphatic Listening
2. Project Organisation
5. Resource Histogram
Chart
6. Team Building
Exercises
7. Team Performance
Assessments
8. Conflict Management

COMMUNICATION 1. Kick-off Meeting

1. Communication
Management Plan

PROCUREMENT

1. Administrative
Closure Procedures
2. Final
product/service/result
3. Transition
plan/process

1. Scope Verification
Techniques
2. Scope Change
Control - Prototyping,
Use Case Modeling, JAD

QUALITY

RISK

1. Change Control
Boards
2. Project Review
Meetings

CLOSING

1. Status Report
2. Progress Report

1. Risk Management Plan

2. Risk Register
1. Risk Response
3. Probability/Impact
Strategies
Matrices
4. Risk Rankings

1. Control Chart
2. Pareto Diagram
3. Cause-and-effect
Diagram (Fishbone or
Ishikawa Diagram)
4. Run Chart
5. Scatter Diagram
6. Histogram
7. Flowcharts
8. Statistical Sampling
9. Six Sigma (DMAIC)
10. Testing

1. Forecast Report
2. Stakeholder
Expectation
Management Matrix

1. Lesson-learned
Reports

1. Risk Workarounds

1. Procurement
Management Plan
2. Make-or-buy Analysis
3. Request for
1. Administer
1. Conduct Procurement
Proposal/Quotes
Procurement
4. Source Selection
5. Supplier Evaluation
Matrices

1. Contract Closure
Procedures