Discussion Questions

  1. Other than the five Process Groups and nine Knowledge Areas approach taken by PMI, how else might you structure your approach to defining a project management methodology for your company?
  2. As far as your company's needs for a project management methodology are concerned, are any of the Process Groups incomplete? Do any of the Process Groups have superfluous processes that would not be applicable to your company? Which are they and why would they not work for you?
  3. Can you think of a sixth Process Group or tenth Knowledge Area that your company would require of its project management methodology?

1 Both Herzberg and Daniel Couger studies are reported in “Another Look at Motivating Data Processing Professionals” by Ramon A. Mata Toledo and Elizabeth A. Unger. Department of Computer Science, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS: p. 4, 1985.

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