PMBOK Guide 7th Disaster Waiting to Happen?

Luis,

My letter to the PMI BoD was passed along to the PMI Standards department. Their response was pretty much a general response. I did get a scheduled WebEx meeting with Dani Ritter, PMI Standards Manager.

During the WebEx we discussed the concerns I raised in my letter to the BoD. I must say it was an open and frank discussion and I appreciated Dani's effort to hold such a discussion.

I must sadly say that neither of us swayed the other's opinion. She is putting faith in letting the process work; e.g., let the Standards Consensus Committee (SCC) reach their decision as to whether the revised draft document should be affirmed or not as the ANSI Standard for Project Management. The SCC's vote is to occur sometime in June.

Hence the effort to hold open discussion as to whether there truly is a broad consensus for affirming the draft standard. My position is there is no broad consensus and a second exposure draft round is warranted.

We will just have to wait and see how all of this plays out.

I'm curios - as PMBOK 7 was published for a while now, is anybody actually using it? if so how? Thanks!

I'm curios - as PMBOK 7 was published for a while now, is anybody actually using it? if so how? Thanks!

I feel that the change from the 6th Edition to the 7th Edition is entirely too drastic. I rely heavily upon the structure PMI has taught along with the templates and methods to lead my projects. When I don't know what to do in a project, I rely upon the structure that PMI has taught us. I am disappointed that the change is so extreme and is so agile since lot of companies still use the traditional structure. I currently work for a company that has a hardware and software division that need to work hand in hand. It is difficult to do since the software development is so agile and the hardware development is so traditional. I wish that PMI would teach project managers both and teach us how to effectively bring them together.

It's clear that the structure, the "how", has been moved into PMIstandards+. Kiron told us to wait until all the parts unfolded and came together. Now they have.