A Meta-model for Planning and Execution Activities in Software Project Integration Management

Project management is one of most important parts of every business and it demands to be controlled effectively. Project integration is one of the knowledge area of project management. It is a technique for influencing diverse methodology to coordinate; it takes different strategies that are being used in a task and guarantees that they are sorted out. Much work has been done on optimization of project management processes but not specifically on project management knowledge areas. This paper discusses the core knowledge area of project management i.e. project integration management. A meta-model for project integration management, for converting manual tasks into automated one, is presented in this research. The architectural concepts of proposed meta-model is described using different levels of meta-modeling i.e. M1, M2, M3, M4. The applicability of proposed approach is also validated through a case study.