CHAPTER REVIEW: CHAPTER 4

CHAPTER 4: PROJECT INTEGRATION MANAGEMENT.
On this chapter it describes an overall framework for project integration management as it relates to the other project management areas and the project life cycle.
Project Integration Management includes:
- Develop the project charter: working with stakeholders in order to create the document that formally authorizes a project.
- Develop the preliminary project scope statement: working with stakeholders, especially users of the project’s products, services, or results, to develop the high-level scope requirements and create a preliminary project scope statement.
- Develop the project management plan: coordinating all planning efforts to create a consistent, coherent document—the project management plan.
- Direct and manage project execution: carrying out the project management plan by performing the activities included in it
- Monitor and control the project work: overseeing project work to meet the performance objectives of the project.
- Perform integrated change control: coordinating changes that affect the project’s deliverables and organizational process assets
- Close the project: finalizing all project activities to formally close the project.

Strategic planning involves determining long-term objectives, predicting future trends, and projecting the need for new products and services
Organizations often perform a SWOT analysis:
Analyzing Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats.

project charter: is a document that formally recognizes the existence of a project and provides direction on the project’s objectives and management