What is PMP Process Chart? - A Complete Guide

Scarlett Adams 12 April 2025

This blog expands on the PMP Process Charts, including the process of creating and memorising the Process Charts, Project Management knowledge areas and more.

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PMP Process ChartIf you have searched online for PMP Process chart or Knowledge Areas, you surely have completed reading a few pages of the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) Guide. Well, if you want to gain an in-depth understanding of PMP Process Charts, you’re at the right place. This blog will help you understand everything related to Project Management processes, Process Charts, and Project Management Knowledge Areas.

If you are up for the PMP exam preparation, understanding the PMP Process Chart is crucial to passing the exam. Reading this blog will help you understand PMP Process Charts and Knowledge areas required to excel in the PMP Exam. Preparing a PMP Process Chart is also essential for delivering successful projects and bringing value to the organisation. Thereby, making it even more important for PMP aspirants to learn about PMP Process Charts.

Table of Contents

1) What is PMP Process Chart?

2) What are the Project Management Processes?

3) How to create and memorise the PMP Process Chart?

4) This is how your Process Chart Should look like

5) What are the five PMBOK Phases or Process Groups of Project Management?

6) The 10 Project Management Knowledge Areas

7) The difference between PMBOK Knowledge Areas and Process Groups

8) Conclusion

What is PMP Process Chart?

PMP Process Chart is an essential tool for anyone who aims to complete their task without any obstacles. This Chart provides a visual representation of the Project Management Processes.

The Process Chart illustrates how various activities in the project lifecycle are interconnected to each other. The activity flow helps understand the relationship between the components and how essential it is to finish the project. The Project Management Institute (PMI) has been a pioneer in helping organisations worldwide enhance their Project Management expertise. Additionally, PMI developed the Process Chart in order to help Project Management Professionals deliver successful projects efficiently.

What are the Project Management Processes?

In the PMBOK Guide, Processes are described as a set of actions performed to develop a product or service in the form of a project. Project Management processes ensure the appropriate flow of the project activities throughout its completion.

The Pros and Cons of PMP include understanding the structure of the PMBOK Guide, which is divided into ten parts, with each part covering a specific Knowledge Area. This guide outlines 49 processes, each associated with a particular Knowledge Area, and categorizes them within a corresponding Process Group.

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How to create and memorise the PMP Process Chart?

Each part of the PMBOK Guide expands on each Knowledge Area in the Process Chart. Hence, it would help if you memorised the chart for the exam. Let's discuss how we can remember this:

Stage 1: Start by drawing a 6X11 chart.

Draw a table with 11 rows and 6 columns to develop the Process Chart.

Stage 2: Then move on to writing your Process Groups and Knowledge Areas

On the top-most row, write down all 5 phases of project management – Initiating, Planning, Executing, Monitoring and Controlling, and Closing

Use this short sentence to remember the Process Groups easily – “In Paris Emily May Cry Constantly”.

In the first column, list the ten Knowledge Areas.

The ten Knowledge Areas are –

b) Project Scope Management

c) Project Schedule Management

d) Project Cost Management

e) Project Quality Management

f) Project Resources Management

g) Project Communications Management

h) Project Risk Management

i) Project Procurement Management

j) Project Stakeholders Management

Use this short sentence to remember the 10 Knowledge Areas easily – I Saw Two Crows Quietly Relishing Coffee and Reading Poetic Songs.

Now your PMP Process matrix should look something like this:

Stage 3: Now fill these corners.

Fill these four processes in the Process Chart:

1) Developing the Project charter

2) Identifying Stakeholders

3) Closing the Project

4) Closing Procurement

This is how it will look after this stage:

Process Groups	Initiating	Planning	Monitoring and Controlling	Closing	Knowledge Areas
Project Integration Management	Developing Project charter				Closing the Project
Project Scope Management
Project Schedule Management
Project Cost Management
Project Quality Management
Project Resource Management
Project Communication Management
Project Risk Management
Project Procurement Management					Closing Procurement
Project Stakeholder Management		Identifying Stakeholders

Stage 4: There are 10 processes that begin with the word “Planning,” and they all fall in the Planning Process Group.

1) Planning Scope Management

2) Planning Schedule Management

3) Planning Cost Management

4) Planning Quality Management

5) Planning Resource Management

6) Planning Communication Management

7) Planning Risk Management

8) Planning Risk Responses

9) Planning Procurement

10) Planning Stakeholder Management

Process Groups	Initiating	Planning	Monitoring and Controlling	Closing	Knowledge Areas
Project Integration Management	Developing Project charter	Developing Project Management Plan			Closing the Project
Project Scope Management		Plan Scope Management
Project Schedule Management		Planning Schedule Management
Project Cost Management		Planning Cost Management
Project Quality Management		Planning Quality Management
Project Resource Management		Planning Resource Management
Project Communication Management		Planning Communications Management
Project Risk Management		Planning Risk Management
Project Procurement Management		Planning Procurement Management			Closing Procurement
Project Stakeholder Management		Identifying Stakeholders	Planning Stakeholder management

Stage 5: Next stage is to fill in the "Estimate" processes into the Planning Process Group in the same way you did in stage 4. It is filled in at the intersection of the Planning Process Group and the Schedule Management Knowledge Area.

Process Groups	Initiating	Planning	Monitoring and Controlling	Closing	Knowledge Areas
Project Integration Management	Developing Project charter	Developing Project Management Plan			Closing the Project
Project Scope Management		Plan Scope Management
Project Schedule Management		Planning Schedule Management
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