Chapter 1
Foundations of Project Management
Course: Pmp Test Prep
Subject: Pmp
Chapter: Inputs Outputs Tools Techniques And Emerging Topics 5506 10753
Lesson 1: Inputs and Outputs: The Reference Layer
Throughout the performance domains, processes consumed and produced dozens of named artifacts — the project charter, the risk register, the cost baseline, work performance reports. This lesson steps back to organize that reference layer: the inputs a process draws on and the outputs it produces, which the 8th edition catalogs as an alphabetical glossary in Section 4. Rather than memorizing an alphabetical list, this lesson groups the most important artifacts into families — business documents, the charter, the subsidiary plans and baselines, the project documents, and work performance information — so their relationships become clear. For the aspiring project manager, the key insight is that these artifacts are not busywork; each has a specific purpose, and the exam repeatedly tests which artifact is the right input or output for a given situation. The throughline is that inputs and outputs form the connective tissue of project management: the output of one process becomes the input to another, and understanding these artifacts and their families is essential to reasoning about how the work actually flows.