Which process results in the Project Management Plan?

• A. Develop Project Charter
• B. Plan Communications Management
• C. Develop Project Management Plan
• D. Direct and Manage Project Work

Answer: (C)

The main idea here is that the overall Project Management Plan is produced by a planning process that brings together all the planning outputs into one integrated document. This process gathers and harmonizes the subsidiary plans and baselines—such as scope, schedule, cost, quality, resources, communications, risk, procurement, and stakeholder management—into a single plan that guides how the project will be executed, monitored, controlled, and closed. That makes it the process responsible for creating the Project Management Plan itself. In contrast, authorizing the project creates the charter; planning communications management yields only the communications plan; and directing and managing project work happens during execution, producing deliverables and performance data rather than the plan.