So...not more Knowledge areas??

Thank you Sergio for sharing your opinion.
How to use this guide to manage a project? Where do you start? I'm lost

I will not use this guide at all. It has no sense. Just to comment, I was part of other groups such as Scrum Guide or DSDM creation or IIBA BABOK creation and in a point this type of things have been debated. I mean to create or not things based on principles only. And in some cases the change was the start to "take an organization out of the market". Mainly because the final result was inapplicable for lot of domains. Principles stated in new PMBOK sounds like a joke in the context that most of the people will agree with that. Nothing new. But to apply them or not is a matter of context . If you need need more abstraction to define the project management process then you can find it inside the Context Outline document which is used to create the exam questions and exists from long time ago. In a point, I agree with @Thomas comment about this version can be consider a defensive move. The key thing here is to define if a guide is something that can be used in strategy, tactic or technical field inside the organizations. In this case, in my humble opinion, the new PMBOK is in the middle of everything and in the case I think is unusable. Now, I understand why there was not a public review of the guide and why lot of people were not accepted as author or reviewer. In my humble opinion the PMI has to start the process to explain how the new guide can be used with other components inside the PMI literature to apply it at all levels at least in critical domains like construction, health, etc. In software, it is obvious because unfortunately in the last years, starting for the agile guide, the PMI work has a lot of focus in that domain.

This guide was not meant to teach you basic project management but rather understand the mindset of leadership and value delivery. There are many ways to "manage" a project - but all has to be determined based on the context of the project. This was mentioned in the 6th edition, and there were tailoring concepts which unfortunately no one reads - They just start at chapter 4 to learn the 49 processes - which are not always applicable - and never performed exactly as laid out.

Ok ok, thats good point! So I have to still use The 6th edition . PMBOK7 doesn't replace the previous one . I mean... if I were someone starting the profession, where I have find the guide to follow for accomplish a project first time?

Thanks Rami Kaibni, I really appreciate your help!

Thomas..Thank you! that was I thought ..this statement its a key point :

"Organizations look for methods and process. Methods normally include steps, sequences and interdependencies which have been widely eliminated and also cannot be found easily (if at all) in PMstandards+."

I did ,explore the PMstandards+ , I found for some topics , It brought to me Guide6th 's process !!.

¿Where Dou you recomend to start if I try to teach someoneelse about proyect Management based on PMI approach?

Exactly, thanks again!

Okay, I understand. Thank you.
What I want to understand is how to use what we have to start a project in real life. I work with different projects, different life cycles. I also teach new project managers and I'm trying to understand and put the puzzle together.

Thank you Abolfazl Yousefi Darestani.

Sergio,

Just for those of us who run organizations, I would like to be clear about this:

"The key thing here is to define if a guide is something that can be used in strategy, tactic or technical field inside the organizations"

thanks !

Thank you Israrul. ¿For you using this 7 guide , its clear follow a init-planning-execution-check strategy for accomplish any project?
Regards (without the guide or other reference documents)

Aaron,
,
I totally agree with you that PMBOK is not the bible, and you could tailor your project to the specific process and method and techniques you need. No problem with that at all.
I have managed hybrid, agile, predictive (oil and gas) projects and have adjusted the processes according to the need of the organization and the project.
My confusion is about the use of the guide, could be it used as the base of organisational PM methods ?
Thank !