PMBOK® Guide Third Edition Overview

Knowledge Areas & Chapter Numbers

Process Groups & Processes Within Groups
Process section # within PMBOK Chapter; (Course sequence)

Initiation

Planning

Executing

Monitoring & Controlling

Closing

Project Management Integration 4

1 Develop Project Charter (1)
2 Develop Prelimi-nary Project Scope Statement (2)

3 Develop Project Management Plan (3)

4 Direct and Manage Project Execution (26)

5 Monitor and Control Project Work (33)
6 Integrated Change Control (38)

7 Close Project (39)

Project Scope Management 5

 

1 Scope Planning (4)
2 Scope Definition (5)
3 Create WBS (6)

 

4 Scope Verification (37)
5 Scope Control (27)

 

Project Time Management 6

 

1 Activity Definition (8)
2 Activity Sequencing (9)
3 Activity Resource Estimating (10)
4 Activity Duration Estimating (11)
5 Schedule Development (12)

 

6 Schedule Control (28)

 

Project Cost Management 7

 

1 Cost Estimating (13)
2 Cost Budgeting (14)

 

3 Cost Control (29)

 

Project Quality Management 8

 

1 Quality Planning (15)

2 Perform Quality Assurance (31)

3 Perform Quality Control (32)

 

Project Human Resource Management 9

 

1 Human Resource Planning (21)

2 Acquire Project Team (22)
3 Develop Project Team (24)

4 Manage Project Team (25)

 

Project Communications Management 10

 

1 Communications Planning (23)

2 Information Distribution (34)

3 Performance Reporting (35)
4 Manage Stakeholders (36)

 

Project Risk Management 11

 

11 Risk Management
Planning (16)
2 Risk Identification (17)
3 Qualitative Risk Analysis (18)
4 Quantative Risk Analysis (19)
5 Risk Response Planning (20)

 

6 Risk Monitoring and Control (30)

 

Project Procurement Management 12

 

1 Plan Purchases and Acquisitions (7)
2 Plan Contracting (40)

3 Request Seller Responses (41)
4 Select Sellers (42)

5 Contract Aministration (43)

6 Contract Closure (44)