Saad Al JabriArchitectural Consultant, PMP, MSc BIMM| Jabri Engeneering Consultant JECJeddah, Saudi Arabia
Information in construction projects is becoming larger and significant. Project Managers depend more and more on different kinds of information to take actions and decisions about their daily tasks in projects.
However, neither the PMBOK Guide nor the construction extension includes standards or processes for dealing or integrating with managing information. The PMBOK® Guide explain only about project information terminology and divides them to: Work performance data, Work performance information, and Work performance reports (Project Management Institute PMI, 2013, p. 58). There is no evidence about how to manage these dozens of information in a proper way. This insufficiency of information management can make allot of problems with the project and project team need to figure out ways to fix that. Saving Changes...
Not in PMBOK, may be as separate practitioners guide. What do you say? Saving Changes...
Catherine KoleckiConsultant, M.Ed., PMP, DASM| DocSolutions, Inc.Aurora, Il, United States
A separate practitioner's guide would be a better fit. It could be designed so that it applies to specific industries and to tackle information management with varying degrees of complexity. Saving Changes...
Justin WortleyProject Manager| Quicken LoansDetroit, Mi, United States
Information management is such a dynamic area with a lot of room for interpretation based on the industry you're in, which is why it's not a good fit for the PMBOK. Saving Changes...
When you said a new knowledge set...are you talking about new knowledge area?
Because in this case, as you maybe know, in the PMBOOK 5th Edition, we have 9 Knowledges Areas, and the purpose of these Knowledge Areas is to better organize the different processes and bring the processes having common characteristics under one category.
Information management is not a process, is a dynamic area, and as @Justin Wortley said, it changes depending of the industry.
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2 replies by Anupam and Saad Al Jabri
Sep 12, 2016 8:41 PM
Anupam
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Correction - There are 10 KA in the PMBOK® Guide 5th Edition, these are:
As Anupam said there are ten knowledge areas and if you look to the Construction Extention to the PMBOK will find extra four knowledge sets which they are:
Safety Management
Environmental Management
Financial Management
Claim Management
However, neither the PMBOK Guide nor the construction extension includes standards or processes for dealing or integrating with managing information. The PMBOK® Guide explain only about project information terminology and divides them to: Work performance data, Work performance information, and Work performance reports (Project Management Institute PMI, 2013, p. 58). There is no evidence about how to manage these dozens of information in a proper way. This insufficiency of information management can make allot of problems with the project and project team need to figure out ways to fix that. To work around this project managers can utilise Building Information Modeling (BIM) standards.
When you said a new knowledge set...are you talking about new knowledge area?
Because in this case, as you maybe know, in the PMBOOK 5th Edition, we have 9 Knowledges Areas, and the purpose of these Knowledge Areas is to better organize the different processes and bring the processes having common characteristics under one category.
Information management is not a process, is a dynamic area, and as @Justin Wortley said, it changes depending of the industry.
Correction - There are 10 KA in the PMBOK® Guide 5th Edition, these are:
This is its own entity. It is not a thing, rather a way.
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1 reply by Vincent Guerard
Dec 10, 2016 9:21 PM
Vincent Guerard
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Thanks for sharing that link.
Second paragraph read
"Knowledge management is the process of capturing, distributing, and effectively using knowledge."
Each of the knowledge area is call "Project ...(knowledge)...Management", it is managing the information on that knowledge.
PMBOK don't need to go deeper, it doest tell you how to conduct a meeting, it tells you that you need meetings. Same should go here.
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George JucanManaging Partner| Organizational Perfomance Enablers NetworkWoodbridge, Ontario, Canada
In the Core Team for PMBOK Guide 5th Edition we discussed a very similar topic regarding Information Management / Knowledge Management. Our conclusion at the time was that a comprehensive discussion would take us out of the realm of Project Management, so we focused on clarifying the information flow within the project and as it pertains to project management - see section X1.5 in the appendices. Please note that this clarification is at a high level (the specific implementation of these flows are very dependent on organization's OPAs) but it should explain the data - information - reports flow. Saving Changes...
Saad Al JabriArchitectural Consultant, PMP, MSc BIMM| Jabri Engeneering Consultant JECJeddah, Saudi Arabia
Sep 12, 2016 1:04 PM
Replying to Mayte Mata Sivera
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When you said a new knowledge set...are you talking about new knowledge area?
Because in this case, as you maybe know, in the PMBOOK 5th Edition, we have 9 Knowledges Areas, and the purpose of these Knowledge Areas is to better organize the different processes and bring the processes having common characteristics under one category.
Information management is not a process, is a dynamic area, and as @Justin Wortley said, it changes depending of the industry.
As Anupam said there are ten knowledge areas and if you look to the Construction Extention to the PMBOK will find extra four knowledge sets which they are:
Safety Management
Environmental Management
Financial Management
Claim Management
However, neither the PMBOK Guide nor the construction extension includes standards or processes for dealing or integrating with managing information. The PMBOK® Guide explain only about project information terminology and divides them to: Work performance data, Work performance information, and Work performance reports (Project Management Institute PMI, 2013, p. 58). There is no evidence about how to manage these dozens of information in a proper way. This insufficiency of information management can make allot of problems with the project and project team need to figure out ways to fix that. To work around this project managers can utilise Building Information Modeling (BIM) standards. Saving Changes...
