Components of a Project Charter
As you read this chapter, notice how the project charter defines the preliminary scope, schedule, and budget for the project, effectively paying out the project's anticipated "triple constraint".
Project Management Process Groups
While the project life and systems development life cycles define the phases of a project, five process groups define appropriate processes for managing the project by function or the kind of work that needs to be done. The process groups overlap within and between the phases of the project as the output of one process group within a phase becomes the input for a process group in the next phase.