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Project Integration Management
Processes and activities needed to identify, define, combine, unify,
and coordinate the various processes and project management
activities within the Project Management Process Groups
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Develop Project Charter—the process of developing a document that formally
authorizes a project or a phase and documenting initial requirements that satisfy the
stakeholder’s needs and expectations.
Develop Project Management Plan—the process of documenting the actions
necessary to define, prepare, integrate, and coordinate all subsidiary plans.
Direct and Manage Project Work—the process of performing the work defined in the
project management plan to achieve the project’s objectives.
Monitor and Control Project Work—the process of tracking, reviewing, and
regulating the progress to meet the performance objectives defined in the project
management plan.
Perform Integrated Change Control—the process of reviewing all change requests,
approving changes, and managing changes to the deliverables, organizational process
assets, project documents, and the project management plan.
Close Project or Phase—the process of finalizing all activities across all of the Project
Management Process Groups to formally complete the project or phase.
Project Integration Management
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Develop Project Charter
Inputs Tools and Techniques Outputs
Project statement of work
Business case
Agreements
Enterprise environmental
factors
Organizational Process
Assets
Expert Judgment
Facilitation Techniques
Project Charter
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Project Charter
Project Title and Description
Measurable project objectives and related success criteria,
High-level requirements
Assumptions and Constraints
High level project descriptions and boundaries
High Level Risks
Summary milestone schedule
Summary budget
Stakeholder list
Project Approval Requirements( i.e. What constitutes the project
success, who decide that the project is successful, and who signs off
the project)
Project Manager Assigned and Authority Level (Who is given authority
to lead the project, and can he / she determine, manage and approve
changes to budget, schedule, staffing, etc.?)
Name and Authority of the sponsor or other persons authorizing the
project charter.
.
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Numeric Methods
Benefit Measurement Model (also called Comparative
approach )
• Payback Period
• Cost Benefit Analysis
• Scoring Models
• Net Present Value (NPV)
• Internal Rate of Return (IRR)
Mathematical Models (also called Constrained Optimization)
• Use linear, dynamic, non-linear, multi-objective programming
to solve problem
Project Selection Methods
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Project Selection Methods
Non Numeric Method
Sacred cow
Operating necessity
Murder Board
Competitive necessity
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Payback period – the amount of time to recover your cost. It
compares the initial investment to the cash inflows expected over
the life of the product.
• For example, Initial investment on a project is Rs. 4,00,000,
Expected cash inflows: Rs. 50,000 per quarter for first two
years, Rs. 100,000 per quarter thereafter.
• What is the payback period?
• Cash inflows = Rs. 50,000 x 4 (quarters in a year) = Rs. 2,
00,000 per year for first two years. Hence, year 1 inflow = Rs. 2,
00,000, year 2 inflow = Rs. 2, 00,000. Total Rs. 4, 00,000 in 2
years
• So payback is reached in 2 years.
Project Selection Methods
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Benefit Cost Ratio (BCR) or profitability Index . This is the ratio of project benefit
and the project cost.
• BCR = Revenue / Cost
• Select the project with a higher BCR
Project Selection Methods
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Present Value (PV) is the expected future cash flows expressed in
today’s monetary value
PV = FV / (1+r) n
• For example, Calculate the Present Value of $ 100,000
received three years from now. The interest rate is 10
percent.
• PV = 100000 / (1+10/100)3 = $ 75,131
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Net Present value (NPV) is the sum total of the Present Value of
Cash Inflows – Cash Outflows
NPV of the Project is 353-291 = 62
Select the project with higher NPV
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TIME PERIOD INCOME/REVENUE PRESENT VALUE AT
10% INT RATE
COSTS PRESENT VALUE AT
10% INT RATE
0 0 0 200 200
1 50 45 100 91
2 100 83 0 0
3 300 225 0 0
TOTAL 353 291
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Internal Rate of Return (IRR): The rate of interest at which the revenues and
costs are equal.
• Select the project with a higher IRR.
Return On Investment (ROI) – A return ratio that compares the net benefits of
a project/ product, verses its total cost.
• ROI = Operating Income / Investments
Project Selection Methods
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Scoring Model Weighted Criteria (example, using
scale of 1-5)
Item
Criteria
4 5 3
2 3 5
5 4 2
4 4 5
Good ROI 3 12 15 9 0 0
Weight Project A Project B Project C
CEO Likes It 5 10 15 25 0 0
Provide
Better
Service
4 20 16 8 0 0
Match New
Initiatives of
Competition
3 12 12 15 0 0
0 0 0 0 0
Total: 0Total: 54 Total: 58 Total: 57 Total: 0
Our Winner!!
(hmmmm…)
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Sacred Cows and Pressing Needs
“Sacred Cow” selection—Senior Management wants it!
(it may often turn out well; many visionary projects
start here)
Business opportunity (make more $$$)
Savings potential (save $$$)
Keeping up with competition (example, many e-
commerce projects were in response to competitor’s
initiatives)
Risk management (examples: disaster recovery
initiatives, Y2K)
Government or regulatory requirements
URGENT!
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Murder Board
“Murder Board" is a term often used for the team created to see if
they can push hard on a project plan to see where it will break.
This process is called by other names as well, depending on the
subject of the scrutiny and type of firm in which it is employed. For
a hard review of a proposal, it is usually called a "red team." Some
consulting firms call final briefing reviews "gauntlet drills."
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Method Project A Project B Which One?
Scoring Model 17 20 B
Payback Period 24 Months 25 months A
Benefit Cost Ratio 3.5 4.5 B
Net Present Value
(NPV)
£95,000 £80,000 A
IRR 9.5% 11.5% B
Exercise 1: Which Project Will You Select
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Project Management Plan
The project management plan defines how the
project is executed, monitored and controlled, and
closed. The project management plan content will
vary depending upon the application area and
complexity of the project.
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Develop Project Management Plan
Inputs Tools and Techniques Outputs
Project Charter
Outputs from other
Process
Enterprise
environmental factor
Organizational
Process Assets
Expert Judgment
Facilitation techniques
Project
Management Plan
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Requirements Management Plan
Scope management plan
Schedule management plan
Cost management plan
Quality management plan
Process improvement plan
Human Resource management plan
Communication management plan
Risk management plan
Procurement management plan
Stakeholder management plan
Project baselines (include but not limited to scope, schedule and
cost baselines)
Components of Project Management Plan
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The project management plan may also include the following.
Life cycle selected for the project and the processes that will be
applied to each phase
Details of the tailoring decisions specified by the project
management team as follows
Project management processes selected by the project management team
Level of implementation for each selected process
Description of the tools and techniques to be used for accomplishing those
processes and
Description of how the selected processes will be used to manage the specific
project, including the dependencies and interactions among those processes and
the essential inputs and outputs.
Description of how work will be executed to accomplish the
project objectives
Change management plan that documents how the changes will
be monitored and controlled
Configuration management plan that documents how the
configuration management will be performed
Components of Project Management Plan
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Description of how the integrity of the project baselines will be
maintained
Requirements and techniques for communicating among
stakeholders
Key management reviews for the content, the extent of, and
timing to address, open issues and pending decisions
Components of Project Management Plan
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Direct and Manage Project Work
Direct and Manage Project Work is the process of performing
the work defined in the project management plan and
implementing approved changes to achieve the project’s
objectives.
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Activities in Direct and Manage Project Work
The activities include, but are not limited to:
Perform activities to accomplish project requirements;
Create project deliverables
Staff, train, and manage the team members assigned to the project
Obtain, manage, and use resources including materials, tools,
equipment, and facilities
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Activities in Direct and Manage Project Work
The activities include, but are not limited to:
Establish and manage project communication channels, both external
and internal to the project team
Generate project data, such as cost, schedule, technical and quality
progress, and status to facilitate forecasting
Issue change requests and adapt approved changes into the project’s
scope, plans, and environment
Manage risks and implement risk response activities
Collect and document lessons learned, and implement approved process
improvement activities
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Direct and Manage Project Work-
Inputs Tools and Techniques Outputs
Project Management
Plan
Approved Change
Requests
Enterprise
environmental factor
Organizational Process
Assets
Expert Judgment
Project Management
Information System
Meetings
Deliverables
Work Performance
Data
Change Requests
Project
Management Plan
updates
Project Document
Updates
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Monitor and Control Project Work
Monitor and Control Project Work is the process of tracking,
reviewing, and regulating the progress to meet the
performance objectives defined in the project management
plan.
Continuous monitoring gives the project management team
insight into the health of the project, and identifies any
areas that may require special attention. Control includes
determining corrective or preventive actions or re-planning
and following up on action plans to determine if the actions
taken resolved the performance issue.
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Monitoring and Control Project Work
Inputs Tools and Techniques Outputs
Project Management Plan
Schedule Forecasts
Cost Forecasts
Validated Changes
Work Performance
Information
Enterprise environmental
factors
Organizational Process
Assets
Expert Judgment
Analytical techniques
Project Management
Information Systems
Meetings
Change requests
Work Performance
Reports
Project management
plan updates
Project document
updates
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Perform Integrated Change Control
Perform Integrated Change Control is the process of review
in all change requests, approving changes and managing
changes to the deliverables, organizational process assets,
project documents and the project management plan.
The Perform Integrated Change Control process is conducted
from project inception through completion. The project
management plan, the project scope statement, and other
deliverables are maintained by carefully and continuously
managing changes, either by rejecting changes or by
approving changes thereby assuring that only approved
changes are incorporated into a revised baseline.
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Perform Integrated Change Control
Inputs Tools and Techniques Outputs
Project management Plan
Work performance
reports
Change requests
Enterprise environmental
factors
Organizational process
assets
Expert judgment
Meetings
Change control tools
Approved change
requests
Change log
Project management
plan updates
Project documents
updates
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Close Project or Phase
Close Project or Phase is the process of finalizing all
activities across all of the Project Management Process
Groups to formally complete the project or phase.
When closing the project, the project manager will review
all prior information from the previous phase closures to
ensure that all project work is complete and that the
project has met its objectives.
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Close Project or Phase
Inputs Tools and Techniques Outputs
Project Management Plan
Accepted Deliverables
Organizational Process
Assets
Expert Judgment
Analytical techniques
Meetings
Final product, service,
or result transition
Organizational process
assets updates
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Revising Key Terms
Exercise 2: Integration Management
1. The project management plan is the collection of
______ Plans
2. Work Culture and company policies are called
Enterprise__________ Factors
3. ___________ is a document that gives the
project manager authority over the team
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Revising Key Terms
Answer to Exercise 2: Integration Management
1. The project management plan is the collection of
Subsidiary Plans
2. Work Culture and company policies are called Enterprise
Environmental Factors
3. Project Charter is a document that gives the project
manager authority over the team
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