4. Project Integration Management (3)

4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
Direct and Manage Project Work is the process of leading and performing the work defined in the project management plan and implementing approved changes to achieve the project's objectives.

Direct and Manage Project Work activities:

• perform activities to accomplish project objectives
• create project deliverables to meet the planned project work
• obtain, manage, and use resources incl. materials, tools, equipment, and facilities
• implement the planned methods and standards
• generate work performance data, such as cost, schedule, technical and quality progress, and status to facilitate forecasting
• issue change requests and implement approved changes into the project's scope, plans, and environment
• manage risks and implement risk response activities
• manage sellers & suppliers and stakeholders & their engagement
• collect and document lessons learned and implement approved process improvement activities

Direct and Manage Project Work process also requires review of the impact of all project changes and the implementation of approved changes:

• corrective action: realigns the performance of the project work with the project management plan
• preventive action: ensures the future performance of the project work is aligned with plan 
• defect repair: modify a nonconforming product or product component

Inputs
1) Project management plan: contains subsidiary plans,
- Scope management plan
- Requirements management plan
- Schedule management plan
- Cost management plan
- Stakeholder management plan

2) Approved change requests: outputs of the 4.5 Perform Integrated Change Control Process incl. those requests reviewed & approved by CCB (Change Control Board)
The approved change may be a corrective/preventive/defect repair, it can also modify project management plan or project documents.

Tools & Techniques
2) Project management Information System: part of EEF and provides tools such as a scheduling tools, configuration management system or information collection and distribution system.

Outputs
1) Deliverables: any unique and verifiable product, result. Typically tangible components completed to meet the project objectives and can include elements of the project management plan.

**Flow of deliverable
Defined Deliverable >> Approved Deliverable >> Verified Deliverable >> Accepted Deliverable
(4.2 Project management plan) >> (4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work) >> (8.3 Quality Control) >> (5.5 Verify Scope) >> (4.6 Close Project or Phase)

2) Work Performance Data: raw observation and measurements identified during activities.
data is gathered through work execution and passed to the controlling processes for further analysis
e.g. work completed, key performance indicators, performance measures, start/finish dates of activities etc.

3) Change Requests: formal proposal to modify any document, deliverable or baseline
- corrective action
- preventive action
- defect repair
- updates: changes to formally controlled project documents, plans etc., to reflect modified or additional ideas or content