ABSTRACT
The Project Integration Management questions on the PMP® certification exam address critical project management functions that ensure coordination of the various elements of the project. As the PMBOK® Guide explains the processes focus on integration activities designed to ensure project success; therefore, integration characteristics involve unification, consolidation, communication, and integrative activities. Project Integration Management involves making decisions about resource use, trade-offs among competing objectives and alternatives, and managing the interdependencies between the ten knowledge areas. It addresses project initiation with the development of a project charter, project plan development, direct and manage the project work, monitoring and controlling the project work, integrated change control, and closing the project. These six processes not only interact with one another but also interact with processes in the other nine knowledge areas. It is important to note PMI®’s view that integration occurs in other areas as well. For example, project scope and product scope need to be integrated, project work
needs to be integrated with other ongoing work of the organization, and deliverables from various technical specialties need integration.
