Project
Integration Management includes processes and tools that help to hold all other
PM processes together
1.
Develop Project Charter – developing the project charter (incl. preliminary scope
statement) that formally authorizes a project or a project phase
2.
Develop Project Management Plan - documenting the actions necessary to
define, prepare, integrate, and coordinate all subsidiary plans into a project
management plan.
3.
Direct and Manage Project Execution –executing the work defined in the project management
plan to achieve the project’s requirements defined in the project scope statement.
4.
Integrated Change Control – reviewing all change requests, approving changes, and controlling
changes to the deliverables and
organizational
process assets
5.
Monitor and Control Project Work – monitoring and controlling the processes
used to initiate, plan, execute, and close a project to meet the performance objectives
defined in the project management plan.
6.
Close Project –
finalizing all activities across all of the Project Management Process Groups
to formally close the project or a project phase.
A Project Manager is responsible for balancing and integrating
competing demands to and has to implement all aspects of the project
successfully. Each project manager who is responsible for the simultaneous
management of a number of different PM processes faces constraints. we all know
triple constraints on the project, but there are more dimensions to a project,
they take in shape of SQERT, it is an acronym for scope, quality,
effort, risk and timeline.
Scope - the sum of functional and
technical capabilities of the software project
Quality - the rate of software defects, functionality and usability of the software
product
Effort - the total investment in the project including direct labor, expenses and
technology
Risk - the uncertainty which may impact
any of the other four factors of the SQERT Model
Timeline - the milestones and duration for
delivery
SQERT can also be used for project specific Status reporting
to executive body. Report completed on a periodic basis by the project leader
contains project phases, milestone dates, events and accomplishments of the
past week, goals and expectations for the coming week, and issues to be
elevated to senior management. Report should also contain comments on the trend
analysis of the project i.e. improvement, decline, no change. Trend analysis is
based on actuals and $ amount mapped from elements of the project’s SQERT model
(Scope, Quality, Effort, Risk, and Time).
Periodic project data as collected is use to map the data
points and conduct trend analysis using standard deviation and postulating probability
analysis to predict outcome of the project.
