Project Management Knowledge Areas
As a PMP I often get questions about what goes into running a project. I will try to explain in a couple of articles the various components that make up a project. There are several ways to look at a project as a whole.
You can view it as a series of processes. Some processes are executed in order and some are recurring processes that are executed at various stages throughout the entire project.
You can also view the project from the different knowledge areas that are needed to execute the project. I will cover the knowledge areas in this article and go on to the processes in my next article.
There are nine knowledge areas each covering it’s own important part of the project. A knowledge area can cover several phases or process groups of the project. The nine areas are mentioned below in some detail.