Planning Processes
Table A.2 lists the inputs, tools and techniques, outputs, and Knowledge Areas for the processes in the Planning process group.
TABLE A.2 Planning Processes
Tools and Knowledge
Process Name Inputs Techniques Outputs Area
Develop Project charter Expert judgment Project manage- Integration
Project Manage- ment plan ment Plan
Outputs from planning processes
Enterprise environmental factors
Organizational process assets
Collect Requirements
Project charter
Interviews
Requirements documentation
Scope
Stakeholder register
Focus groups
Requirements management plan
Facilitated workshops
TABLE A.2 Planning Processes (continued)
Process Name Inputs
Tools and Techniques
Outputs
Knowledge Area
Group creativity techniques
Group decisionmaking techniques
Questionnaires and surveys
Observations
Prototypes
Define Scope Project charter Expert judgment Project scope Scope statement
Requirements Product analysis Project document documentation updates
Organizational process assets
Alternatives identification
Facilitated workshops
Create WBS
Project scope statement
Decomposition
Work breakdown Scope structure
Requirements documentation
Organizational process assets
WBS dictionary Scope baseline
Project document updates
Define Activities Scope baseline
Decomposition Activity list
Time
Enterprise environ- Rolling wave Activity attributes mental factors planning
Process Name Inputs
Tools and Techniques
Outputs
Knowledge Area
Organizational process assets
Templates
Milestone list
Expert judgment
Sequence Activities
Activity list
Precedence diagramming method (PDM)
Project schedule Time network diagrams
Activity attributes
Dependency determination
Project document updates
Milestone list
Applying leads and lags
Project scope statement
Schedule network templates
Organizational process assets
Estimate Activity Activity list Resources
Expert judgment
Activity resource Time requirements
Activity attributes
Alternatives analysis
Resource breakdown structure
Resource calendars
Published estimating data
Project document updates
Enterprise environmental factors
Bottom-up estimating
Organizational process assets
Project management software
Estimate Activity Activity list Durations
Expert judgment
Activity duration Time estimates
Activity attributes
Analogous estimating
Project document updates
Activity resource requirements
Parametric estimating
TABLE A.2 Planning Processes (continued)
Process Name Inputs
Tools and Techniques
Outputs
Knowledge Area
Resource calendars
Three-point estimates
Project scope statement
Reserve analysis
Enterprise environmental factors
Organizational process assets
Develop Schedule
Activity list
Schedule network Project schedule Time analysis
Activity attributes
Critical path method
Schedule baseline
Project schedule network diagrams
Critical chain method
Schedule data
Activity resource requirements
Resource leveling Project document updates
Resource calendars
What-if scenario analysis
Activity duration estimates
Applying leads and lags
Project scope statement
Schedule compression
Enterprise environmental factors
Scheduling tool
Organizational process assets
Estimate Costs Scope baseline
Expert judgment Activity cost estimates
Cost
Project schedule Analogous Basis of estimates estimating
Process Name Inputs
Tools and Techniques
Outputs
Knowledge Area
Human resource plan
Parametric estimating
Project document updates
Risk register
Bottom-up estimating
Enterprise environmental factors
Three-point estimate
Organizational process assets
Reserve analysis
Cost of quality
Project management estimating software
Vendor bid analysis
Determine Budget
Activity cost estimates
Cost aggregation
Cost performance Cost baseline
Basis of estimates Reserve analysis
Project funding requirements
Scope baseline
Expert judgment
Project document updates
Project schedule
Historical relationships
Resource calendars Funding limit reconciliation
Contracts
Organizational process assets
Plan
Stakeholder
Communications register
Communication requirements analysis
Communications Communi-management plan cations
TABLE A.2 Planning Processes (continued)
Process Name Inputs
Tools and Techniques
Outputs
Knowledge Area
Stakeholder man- Communication Project document agement strategy technology updates
Enterprise environ- Communication mental factors models
Organizational process assets
Communication methods
Plan Risk Project scope Planning meet- Risk Risk
Management statement ings and analysis management plan
Cost management plan
Schedule management plan
Communications management plan
Enterprise environmental factors
Organizational process assets
Identify Risks Risk management plan
Activity cost estimates
Activity duration estimates
Documentation Risk register Risk reviews
Information gathering techniques
Checklist analysis
Scope baseline
Stakeholder register
Assumptions analysis
Diagramming techniques
Cost management plan
SWOT analysis
Tools and Knowledge
Process Name Inputs Techniques Outputs Area
Schedule Expert judgment management plan
Quality management plan Project documents
Enterprise environmental factors
Organizational process assets
Perform Risk register
Qualitative
Risk Analysis
Risk management plan
Project scope statement
Organizational process assets
Risk probabil- Risk register Risk ity and impact updates assessment
Probability and impact matrix
Risk data quality assessment
Risk categorization
Risk urgency assessment
Perform Risk register
Quantitative
Risk Analysis
Risk management plan
Expert judgment
Data gathering Risk register Risk and representa- updates tion techniques
Quantitative risk analysis and modeling techniques
Cost management plan
Expert judgment
TABLE A.2 Planning Processes (continued)
Process Name Inputs
Tools and Techniques
Outputs
Knowledge Area
Schedule management plan
Organizational process assets
Plan Risk Responses
Risk register
Strategies for negative risks or threats
Risk register updates
Risk
Risk management plan
Strategies for positive risks or opportunities
Risk-related contract decisions
Contingent response strategies
Project management plan updates
Expert judgment
Project document updates
Plan Scope baseline Make-or-buy
Procurements analysis
Procurement Procure management plan ment
Requirements documentation
Expert judgment
Procurement statements of work
Teaming agreements
Contract types
Make-or-buy decisions
Risk register
Procurement documents
Risk-related contract decisions
Source selection criteria
Activity resource requirements
Change requests
Project schedule
Activity cost estimates
Process Name Inputs
Tools and Techniques
Outputs
Knowledge Area
Cost performance baseline
Enterprise environmental factors
Organizational process assets
Develop Human Activity resource Resource Plan requirements
Organization charts and position descriptions
Human resource plan
Human Resource
Enterprise environmental factors
Networking
Organizational process assets
Organizational theory
Plan Quality
Scope baseline
Cost-benefit analysis
Quality management plan
Quality
Stakeholder register
Cost of quality
Quality metrics
Cost performance baseline
Control charts
Quality checklists
Schedule baseline Benchmarking
Process improvement plan
Risk register
Design of experiments
Project document updates
Enterprise environmental factors
Statistical sampling
Organizational process assets
Flowcharting
TABLE A.2 Planning Processes (continued)
Tools and Knowledge
Process Name Inputs Techniques Outputs Area
Proprietary quality management methodologies
Additional quality planning tools
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