Project Integration: Executing and Completing a Project

Overview/Description
 Project managers regularly face tough decisions about where to concentrate project resources when met with competing priorities and demands. Project integration management helps with these decisions by ensuring the proper coordination of project processes during project plan development and execution. Successful project managers use project integration management throughout the project life cycle to integrate project processes, maximize performance, and meet project goals. This course highlights the importance of project integration management to project performance. It covers the inputs, tools and technologies, and outputs of the following integrative processes in project management: directing and managing project execution, monitoring and controlling project work, initiating integrated change control, and closing the project or project phase. Through interactive learning strategies and real-life scenarios, the learner explores these concepts and gains a better understanding of the project integrative processes in action. This course is aligned with "A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge" (PMBOK® Guide) - Third Edition, published by the Project Management Institute (PMI®), Inc., 2004. Copyright and all rights reserved. Material from this publication has been reproduced with the permission of PMI®.

Target Audience
 Project managers who are seeking to further their project management skills to more advanced levels

Expected Duration
2.0 hours

Lesson Objectives:

Directing and Managing Project Execution

  • recognize why it's important for project managers to understand how to direct and manage project execution.
  • match the inputs used to direct and manage project execution with their descriptions.
  • distinguish between the ways a project management information system and a project management methodology can help a project manager direct and manage project execution.
  • match the outputs for directing and managing project execution to examples.

    • Monitoring and Controlling Project Work

  • identify the primary reasons why it's important for project managers to monitor and control project work.
  • match the inputs for monitoring and controlling project work to their descriptions.
  • match the tools and techniques used in monitoring and controlling project work with their descriptions.
  • match the outputs from monitoring and controlling project work with their examples.

    • Integrated Change Control

  • identify the reasons why it's important for project managers to use the Integrated Change Control process during project work.
  • select the inputs for the Integrated Change Control process
  • match the tools and techniques used in the Integrated Change Control process to their examples.
  • identify the outputs of the Integrated Change Control process.

    • Closing a Project

  • identify the reasons why it's important for project managers to close a project correctly.
  • identify correct descriptions of how inputs are used in closing a project.
  • match the tools and techniques used in closing a project with their examples.
  • match the outputs from closing a project with examples.

    • Course Number: PROJ0522