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This concept will be emphasized for the first time in sixth edition. The Project Scope vs. Product Scope concept will also be emphasized for the firs t time.

There will be a distinction between "Communication" communication between two people and "Communications" artifacts, such as published e -mails.

Project Managers will now be encouraged to prepare updates on a frequent basis not just at the end of the project.

The standard has more voluntary instead of mandatory tone in some areas. Choose any of these that best might fit your current project. More emphasis will be laid on strategic and business knowledge, including discussion of project management business documents. Instead of earlier 47 processes, there will now be 49 processes. Three new processes will be added, while one process will be deleted. The expected outcome is to have increased number of successful projects. Pmbok 6th Edition -itto December 1, Free Pmbok 4th Edition Pdf December The Project Management Body of Knowledge is a set of standard terminology and guidelines a body of knowledge for project management.

The PMBOK Guide also overlaps with general management regarding planning, organising, staffing, executing and controlling the operations of an organisation. Other management disciplines which overlap with the PMBOK Guide include financial forecasting, organisational behaviour, management science, budgeting and other planning methods. That document was to some extent based on earlier work that began with a white paper published in called the 'Ethics, Standards, and Accreditation Committee Final Report.

The Fourth edition was published in The Fifth Edition was released in The PMBOK Guide is intended to be a 'subset of the project management body of knowledge that is generally recognized as a good practice. Processes overlap and interact throughout a project or its various phases. A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge — Sixth Edition provides guidelines for managing individual projects and defines project management related concepts.

It also describes the project management life cycle and its related processes, as well as the project life cycle. The PMBOK as described in the Guide recognizes 49 processes that fall into five basic process groups and ten knowledge areas that are typical of most projects, most of the time.

The ten knowledge areas , each of which contains some or all of the project management processes, are:. Each of the ten knowledge areas contains the processes that need to be accomplished within its discipline in order to achieve effective project management.

Each of these processes also falls into one of the five process groups, creating a matrix structure such that every process can be related to one knowledge area and one process group. While the PMBOK Guide is meant to offer a general guide to manage most projects most of the time, there are currently three official extensions:.

One thrust of critique has come from the critical chain developers and followers e. Eliyahu M. Goldratt and Lawrence P. Leach , [5] as opposed to critical path method adherents.