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Project Management Orientation

Required Baselines for Managing a Project

Although many types of baselines are possible, the three types that must be set for each project are:

Requirements, cost, and schedule are known as the triple constraints.  They are interdependent; a change in one of the three has an impact on the other two. 

The requirements baseline is established after all project requirements have been defined and documented and then reviewed and approved by the appropriate stakeholders on the project, including the project sponsor, who then must sign off in writing.

The graphic show Requirements, Cost, and Schedule as points on a triangle.
1: Getting Started
2: Define the Project Team
3: Team Management
4: Identify and Validate Requirements
5: Create Decomposition Structures
6: Risk Management
7: Project Estimates
8: Project Schedules
9: Change Management
10: Project Control and Execution
Defining the Project
11: Project Management Review
12: Project Closeout
13: Project Management Tool Suite
14: Self-Assessment and Final Exam
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