The Impact of the Facilitating Processes on the Core Processes

The PMBOK illustrates a two-way feedback loop between the core and facilitating planning processes. Although most experienced professionals naturally understand this two-way feedback loop, this "natural" understanding can get lost if you are not accustomed to seeing this activity described this way, if you do not have considerable experience with many of these facilitating processes, and/or if you are trying to understand the individual process-to-process relationships between the two groups. To clarify the relationships between the facilitating and core planning process groups and to improve your context understanding of the facilitating planning processes, review for common situations in which the results from a facilitating planning activity can impact a core planning activity.