Part 23: Knowledge Areas: Project Integration Management
Project Integration Management
- Integration means running the project in general
- It collects and combines all the other knowledge areas
- It cannot be delegated; it must be completed by the project manager
- It includes
- Processes, and activities to identify, define, combine, unify, and coordinate processes and project management activities
- Communicating with stakeholders
- Managing stakeholder expectations
- Managing project documents & knowledge throughout the project lifecycle, to ensure consistency
- Making choices about resource allocation, and making trade-offs between competing objectives
- Use of automated tools, and visual management tools to manage data. These include Project Management Information Systems.
- Participating in business cases, including initiating and finalizing the project, and engaging with stakeholders
- Creating a Project Management Plan, monitoring its performance, and making changes
Completing project work and closing the project