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Kwiyuh Michael Wepngong

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Financial Management Specialist | US Peace Corps Yaounde, Centre, Cameroon

Any one has read the new edition yet?
What is your impression(s)

Posted: Nov 20, 2025 10:48 AM

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Rami Kaibni

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Senior Projects Manager | Field & Marten Associates New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada

Kwiyh, I like the 8th edition more than the 7th because it feels much more all-inclusive. It brings everything together in one place:

1) Core Principles
2) Performance Domain
3) Expanded Guidance on AI, and PMOs
4) Reintroduced Process Group as Focus Areas in an evolved, non-perspective way.

Overall, I do find that it provides a more balanced blend of principles and practical application.

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1 reply by Kwiyuh Michael Wepngong

Nov 21, 2025 1:56 AM

Kwiyuh Michael Wepngong

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Thank you Sir for your insight

Posted: Nov 20, 2025 5:02 PM

Kwiyuh Michael Wepngong

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Financial Management Specialist | US Peace Corps Yaounde, Centre, Cameroon

Nov 20, 2025 5:02 PM

Replying to Rami Kaibni

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Thank you Sir for your insight

Posted: Nov 21, 2025 1:56 AM

Luis Branco CEO| Business Insight, Consultores de Gestão, Ldª Carcavelos, Lisboa, Portugal

Yes, I’ve reviewed the 8th Edition.

Two quick technical notes:

1. PMI removed the 7th Edition

The 8th Edition is now the sole active guidance.

Even so, several principles and value-based ideas from the 7th remain integrated, though no longer explicitly structured as a separate framework.

2. Technical impression

Clearer structure and stronger operational usability
Better integration of hybrid delivery, PMOs, procurement and AI
Still avoids the prescriptive process-driven model of the 5th/6th editions
Consolidates guidance but reduces explicit conceptual scaffolding

Overall: more practical, more actionable, but with less conceptual depth than the 7th offered.

Curious to hear how others interpret this consolidation

Posted: Nov 21, 2025 5:38 AM (Updated by author: Nov 21, 2025 5:41 AM)

Kiron Bondale Retired | Mentor| Retired Welland, Ontario, Canada

Kwiyuh -

The Eighth Edition feels a bit like "what's old is new again" with the reintroduction of many elements of the process framework and the resumed bloat of the document to over 400 pages.

I do like the reduction in the principles and the added references to AI impacts on the profession.

I don't like the fact that a key image depicting different agile methods & toolkits neglected to include DA - that was an egregious oversight.

I'm also not a fan of the rebranding of process groups as focus areas - this is putting lipstick on a pig. It will do nothing to reduce the confusion many people have between process groups/focus areas and project phases.

Reducing the number of processes from 49 to 40 is a good step.

I'm also not thrilled that they still continue to be Scrum/iteration-centric when it comes to agile guidance. Continuous flow approaches for delivery are given scant coverage.

So a mixed bag...

Kiron

Posted: Nov 21, 2025 7:15 AM

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