A common confusion point for project managers and readers of the PMBOK is understanding the differences between "core" and "facilitating" planning processes. Common questions include the following:
These are good, insightful questions. In order to answer them and improve your understanding of the distinction between the planning process types, let's review a couple points:
Although these points help to explain the difference between core and facilitating processes, they do not clarify why risk management planning is considered a core planning process. Only PMI can completely explain this distinction, but here is our attempt:
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