Project Integration Management - Direct and Manage Project Work

• This process helps you lead and perform the work defined in the project management plan as well as implement the approved changes to achieve the project's objectives. 

Let's look at the input, tools and techniques and outputs of this process. 

1) Project management plan

• The plans related to directing and managing the project work from the project management plan are:
• Scope management plan 
• Requirements management plan
• Schedule management plan
• Cost management plan
• Stakeholder management plan

2) Approved change requests

• Any change requested to the project plan are processed through the Perform Integrated Change Control process and approved by the change control board (CCB) first. 
• Changes can be a corrective action, preventative action, or a defect repair. 
• They can affect policies, project management plan, procedures, costs or schedule and all documentation should be updated with the new changes to keep documentation up to date. 

3) Enterprise environmental factors

• The factors outside of anyone's control that would affect the way you direct and manage the project work would be:
• Culture and structure of organization
• Infrastructure - existing facilities
• Personnel administration
• Stakeholder risk tolerances - will they allow you to be late on a deliverable? go over budget?  
• Project management information systems
• scheduling software tools
• information collection and distribution system
• online automated systems
• Organizational structure, culture and management practices
• Existing facilities
• Personnel administration such as hiring guidelines or employee performance reviews

4) Organizational process assets

• The business organization will have many assets that will influence how you direct and manage project work that may include the following:
• Standardized guidelines
• Communication requirements
• Issues and defect management procedures and databases
• Process measurement database 
• Project files from previous projects

5) Expert judgement

• The experts you consult with will help you assess the inputs needed to direct and manage the project work.

6) Project management information system (part of the enterprise environmental factors)

• scheduling software tools
• information collection and distribution system
• online automated systems
• automated gathering of key performance indicators (KPI) 

7) Meetings

• There are three types of meetings:
• Information exchange
• Brainstorming
• Decision making
• You should conduct many meetings to keep everyone informed on what is going on with the project. Documentation of these meetings with meeting minutes will help track discussions and decisions that were made. 

8) Deliverables

• This is the product or service that is produced to complete the process. It can be a software product, training program or anything else the project plan required.

9) Work performance data

• The observations and data tracked during the process of the work being completed. Examples can include the following:
• Key performing indicators (KPI)
• Technical performance measures
• Start and finish dates of schedule activities
• Number of change requests
• Number of defects
• Actual costs
• Actual durations

10) Change requests

• If any changes are determined to be made while doing this process you would submit a formal change request proposal. The changes could be requested due to the need for the following:
• Corrective action - realign an activity tot he project management plan
• Preventive action - make sure that future performance is aligned
• Defect repair - modify a nonconforming product
• Updates - changes to project documents, plans etc.

11) Project management plan updates

• After you direct and manage the project work there could be changes need to certain management plans that include:
• Scope management plan
• Requirements management plan
• Schedule management plan
• Cost management plan
• Quality management plan
• Process improvement plan
• Human resource management plan
• Communications management plan
• Risk management plan
• Procurement management plan
• Stakeholder management plan
• Project baselines

12) Project document updates

• Other documents may need updating as well that would include:
• Requirements documentation
• Project logs
• Risk register
• Stakeholder register

Source: PMBOK 5th ed.