Project scope management includes processes required to ensure that project includes all the work and only the work required to complete the project successfully. Scope defines the work that has to be completed to deliver product / service with specified features and functions.

The purpose of risk management is to maximize the events that cause project success and to minimize those that hamper it. Risk management includes risk management planning, risk identification, risk analysis, creating a risk response plan and monitoring and controlling risk on a project.

Quality is defined as the degree to which a set of inherent characteristics fulfill requirements stated and unstated by the customer. Quality management processes determine quality policies relevant to the project, establish quality objectives, define a person responsible for quality and addresses quality management of project as well as the product.

Integration management includes the processes and activities needed to identify, define, combine, unify and coordinate various processes of project management and its process groups. Any change required to any other knowledge area has to be approved and integrated with other activities. It entails making choices about resource allocation, making trade-offs among competing objectives and alternatives and managing interdependencies among knowledge areas.

Human resource management includes processes required to make most effective use of the people involved with the project. It includes all the project stakeholders – sponsors, customers, individual contributors, partner and others. Major processes in HR management are organizational planning, staff acquisition and team development.

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