ITPEC IP October 2018 Question 51

Clarification of the project goals — everything else in a project is planned and measured against its goals, so they come first.

When a project is initiated, its objectives, main deliverables and success criteria are set and agreed with the stakeholders, usually in a project charter. Planning follows: scope and WBS, schedule, budget. Only then does the work start and its progress get monitored against the plan.

Answer (c)

Why not others:

• •(a) — progress management compares actual work with the plan, so it needs an approved plan and work under way: monitoring and controlling
• •(b) — a schedule is built from the activities needed to reach the goals, so it is planning, after the goals are known
• •(d) — the budget depends on the work and resources needed to reach the goals: again planning, after the goals

Key rule: A project runs initiating (goals, charter), planning (scope, schedule, budget), executing, monitoring and controlling (progress), closing; each step needs the output of the one before.

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