July 19 2021 at 05:00AM
PMBoK 7th Edition at glance
This new Edition of the PMBoK guide will clarify that organizations need to pay more attention to this topic and encourage practitioners to use other resources such as Portfolio Management to manage programs successfully. Many organizations believe they can solve projects by improving their project management systems or contracting more resources, but the problem often reflects their programs and portfolio management. The project management guide is a knowledge base that no longer covers all Knowledge Areas, and the Processes Groups offers an extended list of tools, including models, methods, and artifacts. [1]
The seventh Edition aims to have more user-friendly content and more applicable to project managers who implement predictive, adaptive, agile, and hybrid approaches. [2]
For the first time, the PMBoK guideline has moved from a process-based standard to a principle-based standard. PMBoK 7th Edition is based on principle and not on process and is shorter than the current Edition.
You can find detailed information on this in the PMI standards on The PMBoK Guide 7th. It describes several tools in the Models, Methods, and Artifacts sections. In these sections, the process groups relevant for the guide are covered, and areas of knowledge for different performance areas are described. [3]
They will move from processes based on standards to principles and based on the principles of standards, standards will be the first to advance, and processes will make project management more prescriptive. The critical point is that project management standards do not favor one approach over another. A standard is, what it says, not a principle of project management but a principle of project implementation. [4]
For managers and team members new to the formal project management, using this form of process management can be confusing. Generally, a project requires five process groups: initiation, planning, execution, monitoring & controlling, and closing.
The new Edition contains the most significant changes since the PMBoK was introduced in the 1990s. The Seventh Edition of PMBoK will represent a radical change, with substantial shifts from waterfall project management techniques to agile and holistic project implementation methods.
This new Edition acknowledges the continuous development of the methodologies and practices of project implementation. It condenses them into principles that anyone in the project industry can use to manage and implement projects.
PMI Research has shown that today many projects use a form of agile or hybrid approach, and there is a clear need to move away from the process-based approach of the PMBOK Standard. As introduced in 2019 suggests, agile and hybrid project management approaches are entering in the mainstream. [5]
Project Delivery and Use of Project Management in PMBOK 7th Edition deals with the results of a project. Transforming Project Dynamics focuses on the outcome and results. [6]
Amendments to the Code of Conduct should be adapted to the evolution of the industry. Work on the elaboration and development of principles-based standards that can be applied to supply the new approach. [7]
About the author:
Ivan Moreira, PMP®[8] works in the technology industry. He is an agility enthusiast, international speaker, volunteer, passionate about helping companies and people address changes in their businesses and life with technology. A believer that community growth and progress, that together, could change the world.
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[1] https://www.axelos.com/news/blogs/october-2020/from-prince2-to-the-7th-edition-of-the-pmbok-guide/
[2] https://www.vinsys.com/blog/pmbok-guide-seventh-edition/
[3] https://www.mpug.com/webinar-recap-pmi-pmbok-guide-7th-edition-standard-whats-new/
[4] https://www.wrike.com/blog/demystifying-pmbok-process-group/
[5] https://www.projex.com/whats-new-in-the-2021-pmi-pmbok-7th-edition
[6] https://mudassiriqbal.net/the-standard-of-project-management-and-pmbok-7/
[8] https://ivanmoreira.org/about/
