Chapter 14: Integration Management
In this chapter, we will be covering the remaining processes in integration management. The importance of integration management processes, while seemingly high-level, shows the best practices for managing all the other knowledge areas. In Chapter 4, Charters and Stakeholders, we reviewed the importance of having a project charter giving us formal authorization to begin project work. Now we will pick up with the project management plan, which we also reviewed at a high level in Chapter 2, Introduction to Project Management. Using that project management plan, we will be able to execute project work and produce deliverables, manage project knowledge, perform integrated change control, as well as to control project work, and then we will move on to closing the project or phase.
The topics we will cover in this chapter include the following:
- Developing the project management plan
- Directing and managing project work
- Managing project...
