TABLE OF CONTENTS A process flow diagram is provided in each Knowledge Area chapter (Chapters 4 through 12). The process flow diagram is a summary level depiction of the process inputs and process outputs that flow down through all the processes within a specific Knowledge Area. Although the processes are presented here as discrete elements with well-defined interfaces, in practice they are iterative and can overlap and interact in ways not detailed here.
The symbols for the process flow diagrams are explained in Figure III-1 and depict three types of information:
Knowledge Area processes, their interaction with other processes within the Knowledge Area, and their outputs to Chapter 4 integration processes.
Processes external to the Knowledge Area, whose outputs are used as inputs to the Knowledge Area processes under discussion.
Organizational process assets and enterprise environmental factors are shown as inputs to the first process.
The project management plan, and its subsidiary plans and components that are external to the Knowledge Area, are provided as input into the first process of the diagram, and are considered to be available in each subsequent process...
