I P E MC C Rita's Process Chart

Select project manager

Determine company culture and existing systems

Collect processes, procedures, and historical information

Divide large projects into phases

Understand the business case

Uncover initial requirements and risks

Create measurable objectives

Develop project charter

Identify stakeholders

Develop stakeholder management strategy

Determine how you will do planning - part of all management plans

Finalize requirements

Create project scope statement

Determine what to purchase

Determine Team

Create Work Breakdown Schedule and WBS dicctionary

Create activity list

Create network diagram

Estimate resource requirements

Estimate time and cost

Determine critical path

Develop schedule

Develop budget

Determine quality standards, processess, and metrics

Create process improvement plan

Determine all roles and responsibilities

Plan communications

Perform risk identification, qualitative and quantitative risk analysis and risk response planning

Go back - iterations

Prepare procurement documents

Finalize the "how to execute and control" parts of all management plans

Develop final PM plan and performance measurement baseline that are realisticc

Gain formal approval of the plan

Hold kickoff meeting

Execute the work according to the PM plan

Produce product scope

Request changes

Implement only approved changes

Ensure common understanding

Use the work authorization system

Continuously improve

Follow proccesses

Perform quality assurance

Perform quality audits

Acquire final team

Manage people

Evaluate team and project performance

Hold team building activities

Give recognition and rewards

Use issue logs

Facilitate conflict resolution

Send and receive information

Hold meeting

Select sellers

Take action to control the project

Measure performance against the performance measurement baseline

Measure performance against other metrics determined by the project manager

Determine variances and if they warrant a change request

Influence the factors that cause changes

Request changes

Perform integrated change control

Approve or reject changes

Inform stakeholders of approved changes

Manage cconfiguration

Create forecasts

Gain acceptance of interim deliverables from the customer

Perform quality control

Report of project performance

Perform risk audits

Manage reserves

Administer procurements

Confirm work is done to requirements

Gain formal acceptance of the product

Complete final performance reporting

Index and archive records

Update lessons learned knowledge base

Hand off completed product

Release resources