This course has a detailed description of each project management knowledge area. The first three chapters form the first section, which introduces the project management framework and sets the stage for the remaining chapters. Chapters 4 through 13 form the second section of the text, which describes each of the project management knowledge areas—project integration, scope, time, cost, quality, human resource, communications, risk, procurement, and stakeholder management—in the context of information technology projects. An entire chapter is dedicated to each knowledge area.