PMBOK® GUIDE SIXTH EDITION

The organization’s processes and procedures for conducting project work for Initiating and Planning

The organization’s processes and procedures for conducting project work for Initiating and Planning include, but are not limited, to:

• Guidelines and criteria for tailoring the organization’s set of standard processes and procedures to satisfy the specific needs of the project;
• Specific organizational standards such as policies (e.g., human resources policies, health and safety policies, security and confidentiality policies, quality policies, procurement policies, and environmental policies);
• Product and project life cycles, and methods and procedures (e.g., project management methods, estimation metrics, process audits, improvement targets, checklists, and standardized process definitions for use in the organization);
• Templates (e.g., project management plans, project documents, project registers, report formats, contract templates, risk categories, risk statement templates, probability and impact definitions, probability and impact matrices, and stakeholder register templates); and
• Preapproved supplier lists and various types of contractual agreements (e.g., fixed-price, costreimbursable, and time and material contracts).
• Traceability matrices are important considerations during the project execution