Chapter 1
Foundations of Project Management
Course: Pmp Test Prep
Subject: Pmp
Chapter: Life Cycles Development Approaches And Focus Areas 5506 10738
With the project defined and planned, the remaining three focus areas carry it through delivery to completion.
This lesson works through Executing, where the agreed course of action is performed; Monitoring and Controlling, which runs in parallel to keep the project on track; and Closing, which formally finalizes a project, phase, or contract — or, when it is the right call, terminates it early.
It examines what each area accomplishes, the key benefit each delivers, and the important structural point that Monitoring and Controlling is not a sequential stage but a continuous overlay across the others. The throughline is that these three areas turn a plan into delivered value, with continuous measurement steering the work and disciplined closure confirming the value was actually realized.
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