6.10 Integration Management
Integration management aims to provide processes necessary for coordination amongst various organizations and their teams involved. It ensures that various organizational teams perform in an integrated manner, with their actions coordinated to the mutual interests towards the project. Integrated management processes provide opportunities for resolving conflicts and competing interests through appropriate trade-offs.
Integration is necessary where processes interact, especially when process responsibilities belong to different organizational groups. Such process interactions need organizational interfaces to be defined and resolved at an overall level.
Integration management may also be required for specific situations when impact of one management functions is a cause for concern for other management functions . For example, if there is a time delay in performing a particular construction process, it may often have impact on the cost aspects of nor only that process but other processes involving other organizational groups; the rescheduling may affect coordination amongst performing groups in the downstream processes and activities.
