Sep 17, 2021 10:44 AM
Replying to James Deiner
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I am delving into the PM Standard and PMBOK guide for 7th edition, and I have to say that I am quite under-impressed. What are others' impressions?
I do like the focus on PM Principles. I don't know what the advantage is of jettisoning the Knowledge Areas for the "Performance Domains", and as far as I have been able to gather, I don't see any rationale for the change. I also find quite a lot of overlap (or redundancy) between some of the Principles and Knowledge Domains, e.g. Team or Stakeholder, etc.
I also am quite under impressed with the content & descriptions of the Performance Domains. Such gems as:
"In and of themselves, KPIs are simply measures that have no
real use unless and until they are used"
And then absolutely NO explanation of what they would consider "real use" or how to make them "useful".
The old PMBOKs at least had the process view which would give PMs some idea of what/how to implement the PMBOK principles. This current incarnation doesn't provide any of that, as far as I can see. But I haven't gotten to the Tailoring chapter yet.
