In a global, widespread and widely used project management standard like PMI’s PMBOK®, its only natural that all the impacted stakeholders would look towards it in anticipation. Therefore I just thought of documenting the changes, from PMBOK® 3rd edition and PMBOK® 4th edition.
Before getting into details:
Lets remember that, PMI’s PMBOK® has been accepted as a standard in project management globally and it’s a ‘robust’ and ‘stable product’. There are no major process redefinitions. Only the improvements, clarifications, regrouping, renaming to continue with ‘verb-noun’ standards.
To begin with Good News:
- Its not a drastic change, so if you have studied PMBOK® 3 and can not take the exam before June 30th 2009. Don’t worry too much about it.
- The changes and revisions are more to do with clarifications, removing process overlaps, improved graphics and figures.
To ‘manage’ and ‘mitigate’:
- - PMI Members will not receive the CDs of the PMBOK®, although PMBOK® can be downloaded from the pmi.org website (I think this feature is currently disabled)
Getting into details: For best understanding, changes to processes can be categorised as
- New, Renamed & Deleted processes
- Rearranged processes
The table below lists the names of the processes, for each process group which are either new, renamed, deleted
New, Renamed & Deleted Processes
|
Process Group |
Renamed |
New |
Removed |
|
Initiating |
Identify stakeholders | Develop preliminary scopestatement | |
|
Planning
|
Collect requirements | Scope planning | |
| Define scope | |||
| Define activities | |||
| Sequence activities | |||
| Estimate activity resources | |||
| Estimate activity durations | |||
| Develop schedule | |||
| Estimate costs | |||
| Determine budget | |||
| Plan quality | |||
| Develop human resource | |||
| Plan communications | |||
| Plan risk management | |||
| Identify risks | |||
| Perform qualitative risk analysis | |||
| Perform quantitativeanalysis | |||
| Plan risk responses | |||
| Plan procurements | |||
|
Monitoring & Controlling |
Perform integrated control | ||
| Verify scope | |||
| Control scope | |||
| Control schedule | |||
| Control costs | |||
| Report performance | |||
| Monitor and control risks | |||
| Administer procurements | |||
|
Closing |
Close project or phase | ||
| Close procurements |
Rearranged Process
|
Process |
Moved to |
Moved from |
| Manage project team | Executing |
Monitoring & Controlling |
| Manage stakeholders | Executing |
Monitoring & Controlling |
How it affects the PMP® Exam candidates?
- In the exam its critical to use the current terminologies, therefore, if you are going to take PMP® exam after 30th June 2009, then use the terminologies, processes, tools and techniques as described in PMBOK® 4th edition.
How it impacts practioners:
- As a process improvement envangelist and PM practitioner, I always wlecome improvements. Therefore, I think such new changes are only going to bring ‘positive’ improvements to the projects.
- There will be better PM vocabulary and better project communication in the PM community.
P.S.
- Having acronym, PMP®, just after your name is never enough. Its about life long learning. It’s the beginning.
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