Project Management Body of Knowledge
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Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) Story

The nine (9) PMBOK Knowledge areas:

I See The Coast Queerly, How Come Russia Protrudes?

 

1. Integration
2. Scope
3. Time
4. Cost
5. Quality
6. Human Resources (HR)
7. Communication
8. Risk
9. Procurement

 

Each sentence below represents a different area of the knowledge areas, with the exception of the first sentence, which are the Process Groups.  In the following sections the sentences are mapped to their particular meanings.

 

Interesting people eat cooked crawfish.  I don’t eat icky cooked crawfish.  See, I still prefer destroying vile cooked crawfish.  The alcoholic drunk sailor doesn’t eat stinky dead crawfish.  Coastal Russian people can eat boiled crawfish.  Queerly, quality people ate crawfish.  How over poached shellfish are termed done.  Come, can people inquire during real active crawfish?  Russia must plan into quality red art, quantity rest along red pale moons and crawfish.  Protrude people’s plans so prettily; see some stupid cats ate crawfish.

 

Interesting people eat cooked crawfish (Process groups):

1.      Initiation

2.      Planning

3.      Execution

4.      Control

5.      Closing

 

Project Management Knowledge Areas:

 

1.      Integration – I:

 

I don’t eat icky cooked crawfish!

·           Project Plan Development

·           Project Plan Execution

·           Integrated Change Control

 

2.      Scope – see:

 

See, I still prefer destroying vile cooked crawfish!

·           Initiation

·           Scope Planning

·           Scope Definition

·           Scope Verification

·           Scope Change Control

 

3.      Time – the:

 

The alcoholic drunk sailor doesn’t eat stinky dead crawfish.

·           Activity Definition

·           Activity Sequencing

·           Activity Duration Estimating

·           Schedule Development

·           Schedule Control

 

4.      Cost – coastal:

 

Coastal real people can eat boiled crawfish.

·           Resource Planning

·           Cost Estimating

·           Cost Budgeting

·           Cost Control

 

5.      Quality – Queerly:

 

Queerly, quality people ate crawfish.

·           Quality Planning

·           Quality Assurance

·           Quality Control

 

6.      Human Resources – How:

 

How over poached shellfish are termed done.

·           Organizational Planning

·           Staff Acquisition

·           Team Development

 

7.      Communications – Come:

 

Come, can people inquire during real active crawfish?

·           Communications Planning

·           Information Distribution

·           Performance Reporting

·           Administrative Closure

 

8.      Risk – Russia:

 

Russia must plan into quality red art, quantity rest along red pale moons and crawfish.

·           Risk Management Planning

·           Risk Identification

·           Qualitative Risk Analysis

·           Quantitative Risk Analysis

·           Risk Response Planning

·           Risk Monitoring and Control

 

9.      Procurement – Protrudes:

 

Protrude people’s plans so prettily; see some stupid cats ate crawfish.

·           Procurement Planning

·           Solicitation Planning

·           Solicitation

·           Source Selection

·           Contract Administration

·           Contract Closeout