Project
Management PMBOK
A Guide to the
Project Management Body of Knowledge (Project Management PMBOK®
Guide) – 2000 Edition is your basic reference and the world’s de
facto standard for the project management profession. It was
designated an American National Standard (ANSI/PMI 99-001-2000) by
the American National Standards Institute in March 2001.
The Project
Management Body of Knowledge (Project Management PMBOK Guide) is an
inclusive term that describes the sum of knowledge within the
profession of project management. The Project Management PMBOK Guide
identifies and describes the subset of principles and practices
within the Project Management PMBOK that are generally accepted and
applicable to most projects most of the time. The guide also
provides a common lexicon for talking about project management.
Project management is a relatively young profession, and while there
is substantial commonality around what is done, there is relatively
little commonality in the terms used. An extensive glossary further
aids in standardizing definitions of the most important concepts,
terms, and phrases.
Established in
1969 and headquartered outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA, the Project
Management Institute (PMI) is the world’s leading not-for-profit
project management professional association, with over 125,000
members worldwide.
History of
Project Management Institute: The Project Management Institute was
founded in 1969 by five volunteers. The Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania
USA issued Articles of Incorporation for
PMI which signified the official inception of the organization.
During that same year, the first PMI Seminars & Symposium was
held in Atlanta, Georgia USA and had an
attendance of 83 people.
In the 1970s
the first issue of Project Management Quarterly (PMQ) was published
and later renamed Project Management Journal® (PMJ). The first
Annual Seminars & Symposium was held outside of the USA, the first PMI
Chapter was chartered and the PMI Professional Awards Program was
established. By the end of the decade PMI membership totaled over
2,000 individuals worldwide.
During the
1980s, PMI’s membership, programs and services continued to grow. A
Code of Ethics was adopted for the profession and the first Project
Management Professional (PMP®) Certification examination was
administered. The first PMI project management standard was
published as the PMQ Special Report on Ethics Standards and
Accreditation. PMI’s publishing products and services also grew
rapidly during this decade. The first PMI book was co-published and
PM Network®, PMI’s monthly magazine was born. Due to this growth,
the PMI Publishing Division was established in North Carolina
USA.
By 1990, PMI’s
membership totaled over 8,500 and by 1993 the annual membership
growth rate rose to over 20 percent per year. During the 1990s,
Specific Interest Groups and Colleges were formed and Seminars USA,
a series of educational programs on project management was initiated
(later renamed SeminarsWorldsm). PMI also established a presence on
the World Wide Web and published the project management standard, A
Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (Project
Management PMBOK Guide). PMI Today®, PMI’s monthly newsletter was
printed for the first time and the Professional Development Program
(PDP) was established for PMP certificate holders to maintain their
credential.
By the
beginning of the 21st century, PMI had over 50,000 members, over
10,000 certified Project Management Professionals and over 270,000
copies of the Project Management PMBOK Guide in
circulation.
Project
Management Institute Today: Currently, PMI supports over 125,000
members in 140 countries worldwide. PMI members are individuals
practicing and studying project management in many different
industry areas, including aerospace, automotive, business
management, construction, engineering, financial services,
information technology, pharmaceuticals and
telecommunications.
Over time, PMI
has become, and continues to be, the leading professional
association in project management. Members and project management
stakeholders can take advantage of the extensive products and
services offered through PMI. These products and services are
described below and are explained in detail throughout the PMI Web
site.
Project
Management PMBOK Guide is available in following 8 languages:
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Chinese
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Spanish
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Portuguese
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French
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German
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Italian
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Japanese
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Korean
The Project
Management Institute (PMI®) uses the Project Management PMBOK Guide
as one of the references for the Project Management Professional
(PMP®) Certification Examination. Major revisions and expansions of
this edition include:
·
Aligned newly added processes, tools, and
techniques with the five project processes and nine knowledge areas.
For example, reserve time, variance analysis, and activity
attributes were added to Chapter 6 (Project Time Management);
estimating publications and earned value were added to Chapter 7
(Project Cost Management); and project reports, project
presentations, and project closure were added to Chapter 10 (Project
Communications Management).
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Added a section in Chapter 2 to acknowledge
the role of the Project Office; expanded the treatment of earned
value management in Chapter 4 and Chapter 10; and added a brief
discussion of the Theory of Constraints in Chapter 6.
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Expanded Chapter 11 (Project Risk Management)
to include six processes instead of the previous four: Risk
Management Planning, Risk Identification, Risk Assessment, Risk
Quantification, Risk Response Planning, and Risk Monitoring and
Control.
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Strengthened the linkage between
organizational strategy and project management throughout.
The Project
Management PMBOK Guide is one of those indispensable tools that you
will want at your fingertips, both at work and in your home office.
Selected as a suggested resource for CAPM®, CAQ® Automotive Product
Development, CAQ Capital Projects, CAQ Information Technology
Systems, CAQ Information Technology Networking, and CAQ Project
Management Office exam preparation.