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PMBOK® Guide – Fifth Edition

Update

Dave Violette, PMP

PMBOK® Guide – Fifth Edition Update Committee Chair

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PMBOK® Guide Update

• Major Deliverables

– Factor feedback from deferred Fourth Edition Exposure Draft

and post publication comments into update

– Reposition Chapter 3 (The Standard for PM) as a stand-alone

standard

– Address key inter-relationships between ISO 21500 and

PMBOK® Guide

– Ensure PMI Lexicon terminology is represented consistently and

identically in the PMBOK® Guide

– Harmonize related content between PMBOK® Guide, Program,

and Portfolio Management standards



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PMBOK® Guide – Fifth Edition update

Core Committee

Presentation Title

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Update Committee

• 11 member core committee:

– Canada, Greece, Spain, United States

• 75 content committee members

– 22 countries

• Argentina, Australia, Canada, Columbia, Costa Rica, Germany,

Ghana, India, Italy, Mexico, New Zealand, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan,

Saudi Arabia, Romania, Spain, Switzerland, Uganda, United Arab

Emirates, United States, Vietnam

• 57 internal review committee members

• Over 500 exposure draft reviewers



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Feedback and Comments

• Feedback on Fourth Edition:

– Deferred comments from Fourth Edition = 773

– Fourth Edition post publication comments = 245

– Total comments for Fourth Edition = 1,018

• Feedback from Fifth Edition internal review

– Independent internal review comments = 2,055

• Feedback from Fifth Edition Exposure Draft

– Exposure Draft recommendations = 6,368

• Accepted, Accepted with Modification, or Editorial = 3,770

• Deferred = 817

• Rejected = 1,781



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Major Changes with

PMBOK® Guide – Fifth Edition



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The Standard for Project Management

of a Project

• Moved content from Section II “The Standard for Project

Management of a Project” to Annex-A1

• New section 3 addresses project management

processes and Process Groups as in previous editions

of PMBOK® Guide

– Does not include the summary of the discrete processes within

each Process Group



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New Knowledge Area

• Split chapter 10 “Project Communications Management”

into 2 knowledge areas within 2 sections

• Section 10: Project Communications Management

– Focused Project Communications Management to planning , collecting,

storing, and disseminating project information, and monitoring overall

communications effectiveness

– Moved the report project performance process into the controlling

processes

– New processes for Project Communications Management are:

• Plan Communications Management

• Manage Communications

• Control Communications



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New Knowledge Area (continued)

• Section 13: Project Stakeholder Management

– New Knowledge Area to increase focus on identifying and engaging

stakeholders

– Renamed Manage Stakeholder Expectations to Manage Stakeholder

Engagement

– Shifted emphasis focus to the importance of appropriately engaging

project stakeholders

– Stakeholder Management processes are:

• Identify Stakeholders

• Plan stakeholder Management

• Manage Stakeholder Engagement

• Control Stakeholder Engagement



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Project Data and Information Flow

• New model for consistency in handling work execution

data and information flow



Figure 3-5 Project Data, Information and Report Flow

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Planning Processes and Project

Management Plan

• Added four planning processes

– Scope, Time, Cost, and Stakeholder Management

• Reinforces concept that each major Knowledge Area

has a planning process focusing on how that area will

be planned and executed



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Consistency Changes

• Harmonized definitions found in both PMBOK® Guide,

PMI Lexicon, and other PMI standards

• Renamed processes for consistency

– Processes creating subsidiary plans named Plan {XXX}

Management

– Monitoring and controlling processes named Control {XXX}

• Cleaned up ITTOs to address “orphans”, update tools &

techniques, and improve consistency

• Reinforced concept to improve value to project by

transforming data to information in order to create

knowledge



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Increased Discussion in Introductory

Sections 1 & 2

• Realigned and harmonized text in addressing projects,

programs, and portfolios

• Increased discussion of PMOs and differences between

project and operations management

• Added section to address characteristics and structures

of project teams

• Expanded discussion on project life cycles and phases



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Table 4-1



Table 4-1 Differentiation Between the Project Management Plan and Project Documents

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Figure 7-8



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Figure 8-2



Figure 8-2 Fundamental Relationships of Quality Assurance and Quality Control to

IPECC, PDCA, Cost of Quality Models and Project Management Process Groups

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Figure 8-7



Figure 8-7 Storyboard Illustrating a Conceptual Example of Each of the Seven Basic Quality Tools

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Figure 8-10



Figure 8-10 Storyboard illustrating the seven quality management and control tools



Appendix A-1

• Appendix A-1 provides detailed summary of

changes incorporated into PMBOK® Guide –

Fifth Edition



Contact Information

Dave Violette, MPM, PMP

[email protected]

704-651-6320