Facilitating processes These are are performed intermittently and as needed during project planning

• Quality Planning —identifying which quality standards are relevant to the project and determining how to satisfy them.
• Organizational Planning —identifying, documenting, and assigning project roles, responsibilities, and reporting relationships.
• Staff Acquisition —getting the human resources needed assigned to and working on the project.
• Communications Planning —determining the information and communications needs of the stakeholders: who needs what information, when will they need it, and how will it be given to them.
• Risk Identification —determining which risks might affect the project and documenting their characteristics.
• Qualitative Risk Analysis —performing a qualitative analysis of risks and conditions to prioritize their effects on project objectives.