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What are the Monitoring and Controlling Process Groups and Integrated Change Control

Monitoring and Controlling Project Work and Integrated Change Control processes are how one obtains information about the health of a project. These processes extended throughout the project lifecycle and are fueled by information from each of the other processes in the group.

The Project Integration Management knowledge area relates to the synchronization of all project activities to create a unified whole. Monitoring and Controlling Project Work and Integrated Change Management are a part of Project Integration because:

• Monitoring project work extends through all five Process Groups to ensure an effective project.
• Integrated Change Control process also occurs throughout the project and its purpose is to manage changes in a coordinated fashion.

Monitoring and Controlling project work and Integrated Change control utilized the schedule progress, deliverables completion information, quality results and cost expenditures from the work performance information of the Executing Process Group. The Monitoring and Controlling Project work process compares the actual results to the planned results to obtain variances in order to determine the corrective actions needed to re-align project performance. The outputs of monitoring and controlling are recommended corrective actions, recommended preventative actions, forecasts, recommended defect repair and requested changes.

The Integrated Change Process keeps track of the conditions that may create a project change, manages change when these conditions occurs, and evaluates the benefits of change based on the effect to the triple constraints: scope, cost, time, risk, quality, and customer satisfaction. The outputs of the Integrated Change Process are approved and rejected change requests, Project Management Plan and Project Scope Statement updates, approved corrective actions, approved preventative actions, approved defect repair, validated defect repair, and deliverables.