Integration Management Process

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.