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Domain I: People (33%)
Task 1: Develop a common vision
- Get key stakeholders onto one shared vision
- Keep that vision in front of people
- Update the vision when the work changes
- When the vision is misunderstood, find the root cause
Task 2: Manage conflicts
- Spot where conflict is coming from
- Read the situation around the conflict
- Put an agreed resolution into action
- Share conflict-handling rules with the team and outside stakeholders
- Build a climate where ground rules actually stick
- Handle and correct ground-rule breaches
Task 3: Lead the project team
- Set expectations at the team level
- Give the team real authority
- Solve problems as they show up
- Speak for the team
- Back the team's mix of experience, skills, and views
- Choose a leadership style that fits
- Make roles and responsibilities explicit
Task 4: Engage stakeholders
- Identify who the stakeholders are
- Analyze them
- Shape communication to what each stakeholder needs
- Run the stakeholder engagement plan
- Keep stakeholder needs, expectations, and project goals lined up
- Build trust and influence so the work can get done
Task 5: Align stakeholder expectations
- Group stakeholders into useful categories
- Name what each group expects
- Run conversations that bring expectations into line
- Find and use mentoring chances
Task 6: Manage stakeholder expectations
- Identify what internal and external customers expect
- Keep outcomes aligned with those expectations
- Watch satisfaction and respond when it slips
Task 7: Help ensure knowledge transfer
- Identify knowledge the project cannot lose
- Collect that knowledge
- Make it easy for knowledge to move between people
Task 8: Plan and manage communication
- Define how communication will work
- Push for openness and collaboration
- Put a feedback loop in place
- Know what reporting is required
- Write reports sponsors and stakeholders actually need
- Support reporting and governance
Domain II: Process (41%)
Task 1: Develop an integrated project management plan and plan delivery
- Judge needs, complexity, and scale
- Recommend predictive, adaptive/agile, or hybrid delivery
- Name the critical information you must keep (including sustainability)
- Recommend how the work will be executed
- Build an integrated project management plan
- Estimate effort and the resources it needs
- Check combined plans for dependencies, gaps, and ongoing business value
- Keep the integrated plan current
- Use data so project decisions are informed
Task 2: Develop and manage project scope
- Define scope
- Get stakeholder agreement on that scope
- Break scope into manageable pieces
Task 3: Help ensure value-based delivery
- Name value with key stakeholders
- Prioritize work by value and stakeholder feedback
- Look for ways to deliver value in increments
- Keep checking business value through the project
- Confirm benefits are being measured
- Choose delivery options that make value visible
Task 4: Plan and manage resources
- Define and plan resources from the requirements
- Manage and optimize what you need versus what is available
Task 5: Plan and manage procurement
- Plan procurement
- Run the procurement management plan
- Choose the contract types that fit
- Evaluate how vendors are performing
- Confirm the agreement's objectives are met
- Take part in negotiations
- Decide the negotiation approach
- Manage suppliers and contracts
- Plan and manage the procurement strategy
- Develop how delivery will work with suppliers
Task 6: Plan and manage finance
- Analyze what the project needs financially
- Quantify risk money and contingency
- Plan how spend will be tracked across the life cycle
- Plan financial reporting
- Anticipate later money problems
- Watch financial variance and work through governance
- Manage financial reserves
Task 7: Plan and optimize quality of products/deliverables
- Gather quality requirements for deliverables
- Plan quality processes and tools
- Run the quality management plan
- Help keep regulatory compliance
- Manage cost of quality and sustainability
- Run ongoing quality reviews
- Put continuous improvement into practice
Task 8: Plan and manage schedule
- Build a schedule that matches the chosen development approach
- Coordinate with other projects and operations
- Estimate work (milestones, dependencies, story points)
- Use benchmarks and history
- Create the project schedule
- Baseline the schedule
- Run the schedule management plan
- Analyze schedule variance
Task 9: Evaluate project status
- Develop metrics, analysis, and reconciliation
- Identify and tailor the artifacts you need
- See that artifacts are created, reviewed, updated, and documented
- Keep artifacts reachable
- Assess where the work actually is
- Measure, analyze, and refresh project metrics
- Communicate status
- Keep judging whether artifact management is working
Task 10: Manage project closure
- Get stakeholder approval that the project is complete
- Set the criteria for closing the project or phase
- Confirm readiness to hand off (operations or the next phase)
- Finish closeout (lessons learned, retrospectives, procurement, money, resources)
Domain III: Business Environment (26%)
Task 1: Define and establish project governance
- Set structure, rules, procedures, reporting, ethics, and policy using organizational process assets
- Define success metrics
- Map governance escalation paths and thresholds
Task 2: Plan and manage project compliance
- Confirm compliance needs (security, health and safety, sustainability, regulation)
- Classify those compliance categories
- Find threats to staying compliant
- Use methods that support compliance
- Analyze what noncompliance would cost
- Choose the approach and actions that close compliance gaps
- Measure how compliant the project actually is
Task 3: Manage and control changes
- Run the change control process
- Communicate where proposed changes stand
- Put approved changes into the project
- Update documents so they match the change
Task 4: Remove impediments and manage issues
- Evaluate what an impediment is doing to the work
- Prioritize and surface impediments
- Pick and apply a way to remove or shrink them
- Keep rechecking that blockers for the team are being handled
- Recognize when a risk has become an issue
- Work with the right stakeholders on how to resolve issues
Task 5: Plan and manage risk
- Identify risks
- Analyze risks
- Monitor and control risks
- Develop a risk management plan
- Keep a risk register (including items like weak IT security)
- Execute the plan (including security and sustainability responses)
- Communicate how a risk is affecting the project
Task 6: Continuous improvement
- Use lessons learned
- Keep improvement processes themselves up to date
- Update organizational process assets
Task 7: Support organizational change
- Read the organization's culture
- Judge how org change hits the project and what you must do
Task 8: Evaluate external business environment changes
- Watch the outside environment (regulation, technology, geopolitics, market)
- Assess and prioritize the hit to scope or backlog
- Keep reviewing that environment for new impacts on scope or backlog
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