A$.$

Initiating

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Planning

C$.$

Executing

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Monitoring and controlling

D$.$

Closing

A$.$

Management and$/$or your customer is authorizing the project or a project phase to begin.

B$.$

Your project team is doing the work, but it$$s up to you to measure and correct things to ensure that the project team is doing the work as it was planned. The results of your measurements$$primarily in cost$,$ schedule, scope, and quality$$will show discrepancies between what was planned and what was experienced. These discrepancies are your project variances.

C$.$

Now that you have a project plan, it$$s time to put the plan into action. You$$ve heard the saying, $$Plan your work and now work your plan$?$ This is the $$working your plan$$ part.

D$.$

This process group focuses on formal acceptance of the project$$s final deliverable

E$.$

You and the key stakeholders are defining and refining the project goals and objectives. Once the project objectives have been defined, you and the key stakeholders will plan on how to reach those objectives.