PMBOK Guide:
Project Management Body of Knowledge Guide
The PMBOK Guide - 4th edition strives for excellence in project management with a standard that is even easier to understand and implement, with greater clarification and improved consistency. To aid reader understanding, standard language has been incorporated throughout the document. The PMBOK Guide 4th edition also comes with new data flow diagrams to clarify inputs and outputs for each process.
New features in the 4th edition are two new processes, Identify Stakeholders and Collect Requirements. Also, more attention has been focused on how Knowledge Areas integrate in the context of planning, executing, initiating, Monitoring & Controlling, and Closing process groups.
The Guide acknowledges forty two processes which belong to 5 simple process groups as well as 9 knowledge regions which are common for nearly all projects.
Every one of the 9 knowledge areas consists of the processes that must be completed within its discipline to experience a successful project management system. These processes additionally are categorized into one of the 5 fundamental process groups, resulting in a matrix framework so that each process might be associated with one knowledge area in addition to one process group.
The PMBOK Guide is supposed to provide a standard manual to handle many projects much of the time. You will find at the moment a couple of extensions for the PMBOK Guide: the Construction Extension for the PMBOK Guide pertains to construction tasks, though the Government Extension to the PMBOK Guide pertains to government tasks.
The 9 knowledge areas consist of:- Project Integration Management
- Project Scope Management
- Project Time Management
- Project Cost Management
- Project Quality Management
- Project Human Resource Management
- Project Communications Management
- Project Risk Management
- Project Procurement Management
- Initiating
- Planning
- Executing
- Monitoring and Controlling
- Closing