Marginalia

• Enterprise environmental factors in this context refer to the external rules and conditions "[...] that surround and influence the project's success" (comp. PMBOK3, page 90 u. 83).

• And Organizational process assets in this context refer to "[...] formal and informal policies, pocedures, plans, and guidelines, whose effects must be consired" (comp. PMBOK3, page 90 u. 84)

(1.3) Develop Project Management Plan

(1.3.1) Process Input

... generated by predecessor processes

... special structural Input

  • Project Management Processes

... introduced by external units

  • Enterprise Environmental Factors
  • Organizational Process Assets

(1.3.2) Process Definition

Develop Project Management Plan is the process  for "[...] documenting the actions necessary to define, prepare, integrate, and coordinate all subsidiary plans into a project management plan" (comp. PMBOK3, p. 78). Therefore all the planning processes from scope planning to plan purchases and acquisitions might be thought as sub processes of the process Develop Project Management Plan. Main task of this father process is the aggregation of the results of his subprocess:

"The Develop Project Management Plan process includes all actions nescessary to define, integrate, and coordinate all subsidiary plans into a project  management plan [...] that is update and revisited through the Integrated Change Control Process".

(comp. PMBOK3, pp. 88f)

  • Part of the Planning Process Group
  • Father process of the following child processes, which also use the input and generate or modify the output of this process
    • Scope Planning
    • Scope Definition
    • Create WBS
    • Activity Definition
    • Activity Duration Estimating
    • Activity Resource Estimating
    • Activity Sequencing
    • Schedule Development
    • Cost Estimating
    • Cost Budgeting
    • Quality Planning
    • Human Resource Planning
    • Communications Planning
    • Risk Management Planning
    • Qualitative Risk Analysis
    • Quantitative Risk Analysis
    • Risk Response Planning
    • Plan Purchases and Acquisitions
    • Plan Contracting
  • Member of Knowledge Area Project Integration Management

(1.3.3) Tools and Techniques

PMBOK Mentioned Methods

  • Project management methodology is the set of tools and methods used to execute the act of project managament
  • Project management information system is the set of software and tools "[...] used by the project management team so support generation of the project management plan"
  • Expert judgement is used to execute all the sub-processes of this process

(comp. PMBOK3, p. 90)

Open Source Tools

  • NN

(1.3.4) Process Output

  • The Project Management Plan is a set of documents, including at least
    • The Project Scope Management Plan explicitly generated by the sub-process Scope Planning
    • The Schedule Management Plan generated by this process and (indirectly as part of the project management plan) given to the sub process Activity Definition
    • The Cost Management Plan generated by this process and (indirectly as part of the project management plan) given to the sub process Cost Estimating
    • The Quality Management Plan explicitly generated by the sub-process Quality Planning
    • The Process Improvement Plan explicitly generated by the sub-process Quality Planning
    • The Staffing Management Plan explicitly generated by the sub-process Human Resource Planning
    • The Communication Management Plan explicitly generated by the sub-process Communication Planning
    • The Risk Management Plan explicitly generated by the sub-process Risk Managament Planning
    • The Procurement Management Plan explicitly generated by the sub-process Plan Purchases and Acquisition
    • Milestone List coming from Activity Definition
    • Resource Calendar coming from Activity Resource Estimating
    • Schedule Baseline coming from Schedule Development
    • Cost Baseline coming from Cost Budgeting
    • Quality Baseline coming from Quality Planning
    • Risk Register initially generated by Risk Identification and updated by all other risk processes

(comp. PMBOK3, pp. 89ff)

(1.3.5) Output Using Successor Processes

Successors using the initially generated output as own input(1):

  1. For details see FAQ::Q001:1