Overview of knowledge areas

Knowledge areas represent specific aspects of a project that are necessary to understand. Some knowledge areas will be very familiar to you: scope, schedule, and cost, perhaps. Some of you might be familiar with risk, procurement, and formal change control. Others might be better versed in communications and resource management. Our 10 knowledge areas have a variety of processes attached across multiple process groups.

While it may appear that everything is very linear, it is in fact a cycle. There are multiple areas that we will cover that are considered iterative, meaning performed over and over throughout the project. An excellent example of this would be best practices and processes in stakeholder engagement, risk management, and scope management. Why? Well, I'm sure you know from your experience that putting together a plan that you think is comprehensive and then executing it doesn't always go as you hope it will. It's essential to...