The PMBOK Guide (PMI, 2017) described the Planning Process Group as comprising the activities to establish the project scope of effort, objectives, and the course of action to satisfy the project objectives. For this discussion:

Select one of the common project planning processes featured in Part 2, Section 3, of thePMBOK Guide, 6^thedition and describe at least three tools or techniques used and how they contribute to the process outputs.

Examine the Project Management System Resource Center (PMSRC) Module 3: PMS for Project Management Functions(Links to an external site.) page 3 "PMS for Project Planning"; then describe how you could apply project management software (or other software applications) to a project experience that you have had in the workplace (or elsewhere) facilitating the use of the project management tools that you featured.