Integrate the project plan and the other plans that affect the project to describe the project’s defined process.

Refer to the Project Planning process area for more information about establishing and maintaining a project plan.

Refer to the Organizational Process Definition process area for more information about organizational process assets and, in particular, the organization’s measurement repository.

Refer to the Measurement and Analysis process area for more information about defining measures and measurement activities and using analytic techniques.

Refer to the Risk Management process area for more information about identifying and analyzing risks.

Refer to the Organizational Process Focus process area for more information about organizational process needs and objectives.

This specific practice extends the specific practices for establishing and maintaining a project plan to address additional planning activities such as incorporating the project’s defined process, coordinating with relevant stakeholders, using organizational process assets, incorporating plans for peer reviews, and establishing objective entry and exit criteria for tasks.

The development of the project plan should account for current and projected needs, objectives, and requirements of the organization, customer, suppliers, and end users, as appropriate.

Typical Work Products

1.    Integrated plans

Subpractices

1.    Integrate other plans that affect the project with the project plan.

Other plans that affect the project may include the following:

·   Quality assurance plans

·   Configuration management plans

·   Risk management strategy

·   Documentation plans

2.    Incorporate into the project plan the definitions of measures and measurement activities for managing the project.

3.    Identify and analyze product and project interface risks.

4.    Schedule the tasks in a sequence that accounts for critical development factors and project risks.

5.    Incorporate the plans for performing peer reviews on the work products of the project's defined process.

Refer to the Verification process area for more information about peer reviews.

6.    Incorporate the training needed to perform the project’s defined process in the project’s training plans.

This task typically involves negotiating with the organizational training group the support they will provide.

7.    Establish objective entry and exit criteria to authorize the initiation and completion of the tasks described in the work breakdown structure (WBS).

Refer to the Project Planning process area for more information about the WBS.

8.    Ensure that the project plan is appropriately compatible with the plans of relevant stakeholders.

Typically the plan and changes to the plan will be reviewed for compatibility.

9.    Identify how conflicts will be resolved that arise among relevant stakeholders.