The Government does not mandate any particular project management methodology. In the absence of a mandated methodology, the evaluation criteria for this objective were constructed using the Project Management Institute's "Project Management Body of Knowledge" (PMBOK).
This methodology is well-regarded by project management practitioners and experts as a high level standard for the project management discipline15.
Figure 2F outlines the PMBOK knowledge areas used to assess the project.
Figure 2F PMBOK Knowledge Areas
| Project Integration Management | Project Scope Management | Project Time Management |
| The processes and activities needed to identify, define, combine, unify, and coordinate the various processes and project management activities. | The processes required to ensure that the project includes all the work required, and only the work required, to complete the project successfully. | The processes required to accomplish timely completion of the project. |
| Project Cost Management | Project Quality Management | Project Human Resource Management |
| The processes involved in planning, estimating, budgeting, and controlling costs. | Processes include all the activities that determine quality policies, objectives, and responsibilities. | The processes that organise and manage the project team. |
| Project Communications Management | Project Risk Management | Project Procurement Management |
| The processes required to ensure timely and appropriate generation, collection, distribution, storage, retrieval, and ultimate disposition of project information. | The processes concerned with conducting risk management planning, identification, analysis, responses, and monitoring and control on a project. | The processes to purchase or acquire the products, services, or results needed from outside the project team to perform the work. |
Source: Project Management Institute <www.pmi.org>.
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15 We do not report on the PMBOK function "Project Procurement Management", as this review was conducted as part of our preceding examination of procurement for the overall development.