Project Management Process Groups

There are 47 project management processes in the PMBOK Guide. These processes are required on a project to cover its management aspect. The project management process are grouped together into five process groups.^[1] The five project management process groups are as follows:

1. Initiating Process Group
2. Planning Process Group
3. Executing Process Group
4. Monitoring and Controlling Process Group
5. Closing Process Group

One of the common misconception among many people, including some PMP certified individual, is to consider project management process groups as project phases. Project management process groups are not project phases. In fact, the five project management process groups are repeated for every single phase of a project.

References

1. The Project Management Body of Knowledge - Fifth Edition. Project Management Institute. 2013. p. 49. ISBN 978-1-935589-67-9.