The Advanced Project Management process areas address activities such as establishing a defined process that is tailored from the organization’s set of standard processes, establishing the project work environment from the organization’s work environment standards, coordinating and collaborating with relevant stakeholders, managing risk, forming and sustaining integrated teams for the conduct of projects, and quantitatively managing the project’s defined process.

Figure 4.4 provides a bird’s-eye view of the interactions among the Advanced Project Management process areas and with other process area categories. Each Advanced Project Management process area depends on the ability to plan, monitor, and control the project. The Basic Project Management process areas provide this ability.

Figure 4.4: Advanced Project Management Process Areas

The Integrated Project Management process area establishes and maintains the project’s defined process that is tailored from the organization’s set of standard processes. The project is managed using the project’s defined process. The project uses and contributes to the organization’s process assets. The project’s work environment is established and maintained from the organization’s work environment standards.

The management of the project ensures that the relevant stakeholders associated with the project coordinate their efforts in a timely manner. It does this by providing for the management of stakeholder involvement; the identification, negotiation, and tracking of critical dependencies; and the resolution of coordination issues within the project and with relevant stakeholders.

With the +IPPD addition, Integrated Project Management +IPPD establishes and maintains the shared vision of the project and an integrated team structure for the project and then establishes integrated teams to perform the work of the project, ensuring the appropriate collaboration across teams.

Although risk identification and monitoring are covered in the Project Planning and Project Monitoring and Control process areas, the Risk Management process area takes a continuing, forward-looking approach to managing risks with activities that include identification of risk parameters, risk assessments, and risk mitigation.

The Quantitative Project Management process area applies quantitative and statistical techniques to manage process performance and product quality. Quality and process-performance objectives for the project are based on the objectives established by the organization. The project’s defined process comprises, in part, process elements and subprocesses whose process performance can be predicted. At a minimum, the process variation experienced by subprocesses critical to achieving the project’s quality and process-performance objectives is understood. Corrective action is taken when special causes of process variation are identified. (See the definition of “special cause of process variation” in the glossary.)