Approved change requests, approved corrective actions, and updates to organizational process assets are all outputs of which project management process?

Question

Options

• ARisk response planning
• BManage stakeholders
• CScope definition
• DPerformance reporting

• A
  7% (2)
• B
  71% (20)
• C
  18% (5)
• D
  4% (1)

Explanation

Manage Stakeholder Expectations (or "Manage Stakeholder Engagement" in PMBOK 5th ed.) is the correct answer because it is the process where the project manager actively communicates and works with stakeholders to meet their needs and address issues. During this process, stakeholder interactions frequently surface the need for changes and corrective actions, which must be approved and logged - and the lessons learned from those interactions feed into organizational process assets.

Why the distractors are wrong:

• A (Risk Response Planning) produces risk registers, contingency reserves, and risk-related project plan updates - not approved change requests or corrective actions.
• C (Scope Definition) outputs the project scope statement and supporting documentation - no change requests or OPA updates flow from scope definition itself.
• D (Performance Reporting) generates status reports and forecasts, and can initiate change requests, but it does not produce approved change requests or corrective actions as formal outputs.

Memory tip: Think of "Manage Stakeholders" as the process that keeps people aligned - and whenever alignment breaks down, someone has to approve a fix (change request or corrective action) and write it down for next time (OPA update). The three outputs all follow naturally from resolving stakeholder friction.

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