Process Chart Game
Sort the 49 project management processes into the five Process Groups
About this game & rules — click to open
The original game belongs to RMC Learning Solutions and is based on the Process Chart by Rita Mulcahy: rmcls.com/game/process-chart-game-v11 This page is an unofficial Russian-language version, made for a first look at the material.
The game is for getting acquainted with the logic of the process chart. For exam preparation use the official RMC and PMI materials.
Sort the project management processes into the five Process Groups in the correct order, and you will see the whole project as one logical flow.
The five Process Groups (left to right):
Initiating → Planning → Executing → Monitoring & Controlling → Closing.
How to play:
- Drag each item from the “Mixed” list into the column of the correct Process Group.
- Inside a group, arrange the processes in the correct sequence — the order matters.
- Hover a card with the mouse to see what the step means and which tools are used there.
- “Play for points” gives you 10 points: every card dropped into the wrong group costs one point and comes back to the pile, and at zero the board resets.
- Click “Show results” to check yourself; “Planning processes ordering test” checks the order within the Planning group.
- “Shuffle the Mixed list” mixes items again; “Start new game” resets everything.
- Works with mouse and touch. Use any modern browser (not Internet Explorer).
Unofficial page for educational acquaintance, based on Rita Mulcahy’s PMP® Exam Prep (9th ed.). PMP is a registered mark of the Project Management Institute. Published by Iowa Solutions · iowasolutions.kz
Original game by RMC Learning Solutions: rmcls.com/game/process-chart-game-v11 · unofficial version for getting acquainted; prepare for the exam with the official materials
The same exercise for an agile project — five phases of the agile life cycle: agile.iowasolutions.kz, hybrid project hybrid.iowasolutions.kz
- Select project manager
- Determine company culture & existing systems
- Collect processes, procedures, & historical information
- Divide large projects into phases or smaller projects
- Understand business case & benefits management plan
- Uncover initial requirements, assumptions, risks, constraints & existing agreements
- Assess project & product feasibility within the given constraints
- Create measurable objectives & success criteria
- Develop project charter
- Identify stakeholders & determine their expectations, interest, influence, & impact
- Request changes (1)
- Develop assumption log
- Develop stakeholder register
- Assess sustainability and ESG requirements for the project
- Determine development approach, life cycle, & how you will plan for each knowledge area
- Define & prioritize requirements
- Create project scope statement
- Assess what to purchase & create procurement documents
- Determine planning team
- Create WBS & WBS dictionary
- Create activity list
- Create network diagram
- Estimate resource requirements
- Estimate activity durations & costs
- Determine critical path
- Develop schedule
- Develop budget
- Determine quality standards, processes, & metrics
- Determine team charter & all roles & responsibilities
- Plan communications & stakeholder engagement
- Perform risk identification, qualitative & quantitative risk analysis, & risk response planning
- Go back - iterations
- Finalize procurement strategy & documents
- Create change & configuration management plans
- Finalize all management plans
- Develop realistic & sufficient project management plan & baselines
- Gain formal approval of the plan
- Hold kickoff meeting
- Request changes (2)
- Plan ESG metrics: environmental impact, safety, social commitments
- Decide where AI is used in the project and plan its risks and data rules
- Map the value stream and plan waste removal (Lean)
- Execute work according to the project management plan
- Produce product deliverables (product scope)
- Gather work performance data
- Request changes (3)
- Implement only approved changes
- Continuously improve, perform progressive elaboration
- Follow processes
- Determine whether quality plan & processes are correct & effective
- Perform quality audits & issue quality report
- Acquire final team & physical resources
- Manage people
- Evaluate team & individual performance; provide training
- Hold team-building activities
- Give recognition & rewards
- Use issue logs
- Facilitate conflict resolution
- Release resources as work is completed
- Send & receive information & solicit feedback
- Report on project performance
- Facilitate stakeholder engagement & manage expectations
- Hold meetings
- Evaluate sellers, negotiate & contract with sellers
- Use & share project knowledge
- Execute contingency plans
- Update project management plan & project doc
- Use AI tools for routine work and verify what they produce
- Remove waste and run Lean practices: kaizen, 5S, value stream mapping
- Take action to monitor & control the project
- Measure performance against performance measurement baseline
- Measure performance against other metrics in the project management plan
- Analyze & evaluate data & performance
- Determine if variances warrant a corrective action or other change request(s)
- Influence factors that cause change
- Request changes (4)
- Perform integrated change control
- Approve or reject changes
- Update project management plan & project documents
- Inform stakeholders of all change request results
- Monitor stakeholder engagement
- Confirm configuration compliance
- Create forecasts
- Gain customer’s acceptance of interim deliverables
- Perform quality control
- Perform risk reviews, reassessments, & audits
- Manage reserves
- Manage, evaluate, & close procurements
- Evaluate use of physical resources
- Track ESG metrics and report on sustainability commitments
- Measure flow: cycle time, work in progress, waste (Lean metrics)
- Confirm work is done to requirements
- Complete final procurement closure
- Gain final acceptance of product
- Complete financial closure
- Hand off completed project
- Solicit customer’s feedback about the project
- Complete final performance reporting
- Index & archive records
- Gather final lessons learned & update knowledge bases