PMBOK 7th edition official release date

It's interesting that since Covid-19 entered our lives, PMI has been very quiet (both in announcements as well as any publication updates) about the "PLAN" for releasing the next edition of the PMBOK other than to move the date for the revised exams to January 2nd, 2021. Maybe there’s not a plan. Maybe it’s Agile.

Also, I looked at the "PMP Exam Reference Materials" page (https://www.pmi.org/certifications/types/p...reference-list) and I priced out the additional books referenced there. On Amazon, the total cost was around $400 US. As an instructor for our chapter's PMP Exam Prep class, I guess I’ll need to buy a copy of each text myself. I can only say it is going to be EXTREMELY confusing this fall, trying to teach without having time to train all the old dogs.

The matrix chart that PMI is currently using to attempt to explain how they are going to replace what we know with what we should know (that blue on the left, orange on the right, with the Standards Plus Digital Content Platform at the bottom slide) seems to be confused. The chart has Team & Stakeholders listed both as Principles and Performance Domains. And the principles of Opportunities and threats with Adaptability and resilience are flavors of the Performance Domain Navigating Uncertainty and Ambiguity. What was wrong with the word “Risk”? Did it not highlight the fact that a risk could be leveraged to a positive advantage? Maybe not. Why not just change it to Risk and Reward? And to finish this, we seem to have Tailoring as a Principle and as a section in the revised PMBOK.

And where are the statistics and data regarding the research that these revisions are being based on? What questions were asked and what were the answers? What is the population and demographics of those who responded? What percentage of those answering are career level PMPs?

It seems that we are making a wholesale change to accommodate Collaboration and Agile without solving existing problems like developing some standards to address performance reporting in an Agile environment since many EV metrics crumble when budgets and schedules give way to time boxed teams and sprints. The teams may be self-organizing, but they are not self-managing. When an Agile effort fails to deliver even an MVP, what went wrong? Management will not stop asking that question no matter how collaborative or Agile we are. And without some standard, sensible metrics to rely on, we'll need more smoke and mirrors.

Maybe, PMI and PMP should become WEI and WEP? (WE=Work Effort) If we are changing things, then let’s change!