ITPEC IP October 2023 Question 53

Project management plan — the document the project manager draws up at launch to define how the project will be executed, monitored and controlled.

Once the project is authorised (by the project charter), the project manager develops the project management plan. It integrates the subsidiary plans and baselines: scope (with the WBS), schedule, cost, quality, resources, communication, risk and procurement, and how changes will be controlled. The team works to it, and progress is measured against its baselines.

Answer (c)

Why not others:

• •(a) Request for proposal — sent by the acquirer to candidate vendors to ask for proposals; a procurement document, not the plan for running the project
• •(b) Project implementation report — reports the status or results of work already done; it records, it does not plan
• •(d) Requirements definition — states what the system must do; it describes the product to be built, not how the project that builds it is managed

Key rule: Tell product documents (requirements definition, design documents) from project documents (charter, project management plan, status reports); the project management plan is the baseline the project manager runs and controls the project by.

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