Sergio Luis ConteHelping to create solutions for everyone| Worldwide based OrganizationsBuenos Aires, Argentina
As far as I understood the new PMBOK will have the same/similar structure than the Certification Content Outline document, which is not new and in fact is the key point of reference to pass the certificaions exam. Then, if this is it, the process will not disappear. Saving Changes...
Peter RapinSubject Matter Expect; Project Delivery| Independent ConsultantOntario, Canada
".. 49 processes in the PMBOK are essential to navigating projects."
It is interesting to see that some people believe that PMI invented project management. It is true that PMI provided structure and defined processes and tools to assist with the delivery of projects. In addition, PMI encouraged and provided training in the field - but "...essential to navigating projects"?
I don't want to burst anyone's balloon but some pretty significant projects were successfully delivered in the centuries preceding PMI. Even as we comment today there are projects being delivered throughout the world which do not religiously follow PMI processes and teachings.
PMI provided tools that can be used in project delivery when applied judiciously but these tools are NOT "essential".
I would also expect these tools to be improved and added to to reflect today's challenges and constraints. I do not equate them to the Ten Commandments.
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Nov 28, 2020 2:12 AM
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I agree with Peter
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Puneet AgrawalMr| Ericsson India Global Services Private LimitedGurgaon (Haryana), India
Nov 27, 2020 3:57 PM
Replying to Peter Rapin
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".. 49 processes in the PMBOK are essential to navigating projects."
It is interesting to see that some people believe that PMI invented project management. It is true that PMI provided structure and defined processes and tools to assist with the delivery of projects. In addition, PMI encouraged and provided training in the field - but "...essential to navigating projects"?
I don't want to burst anyone's balloon but some pretty significant projects were successfully delivered in the centuries preceding PMI. Even as we comment today there are projects being delivered throughout the world which do not religiously follow PMI processes and teachings.
PMI provided tools that can be used in project delivery when applied judiciously but these tools are NOT "essential".
I would also expect these tools to be improved and added to to reflect today's challenges and constraints. I do not equate them to the Ten Commandments.
I agree with Peter Saving Changes...
Thomas WalentaGlobal Project Economy ExpertHackenheim, Germany
Agree with Peter,
PMI and PMBoK only covers a subset of PM.
Actually, the PMBoK was intended to cover a core of practices from the field, used in most projects most of the time. This did not mean emerging practices (like agile from 2001), and it did not include great practices used in one industry only.
PMI got to know it's knowledge about practices from volunteers and a role delineation study done every 4 years. This is not fast enough any longer.
The 49 processes and tools&techniques are meant to be stored in the standards+ online knowledge base. Maybe accessibility to that knowledge is not as easy as having a comprehensive book which also conveys how these elements work together. Saving Changes...
RICHA LAMAProgram Delivery lead| ScotiabankNew Delhi, Delhi, India
I agree with Peter, PMBOK can be referred to as Bible of Project Management but how many of us blindly and religiously follow "The Bible" in our everyday life?? Saving Changes...
Sergio Luis ConteHelping to create solutions for everyone| Worldwide based OrganizationsBuenos Aires, Argentina
With all my due respect I fully disagree with people that think or sustain PMBOK is "the bible" for project management. That is what the PMI sustain to keep their business running. But when people, as in my case, have to deal with projects in other parts of the world outside USA or LATAM then PMBOK and PMI´s way of view about project management is not followed or in some cases is not know. So, I encourage people, do not contribute to that vision except that vision is the solution to their problems in terms of project management. With that said, in my case, it is but with lot of customization. Better to day, in my case, I use the apocryphal gospels instead. Saving Changes...
I don't see the PMBoK as The Bible nearly so much as an the Encyclopedia Britannica of its day. It is a great collection of well organized knowledge. It is not an instruction manual. It doesn't reflect all the current trends. You will only ever use select pieces at a given time, and you may not even know they even have a name when you use them.
Like a WBS, you can organize things in different ways, and we can debate the best organization. I don't see many other well organized bodies of knowledge however, on lessons learned from prior projects boiled down to the general case. Saving Changes...
