Simply explained by a PMI-certified Project Manager
If you learned project scheduling from the PMBOK Guide, you learned six processes. The eighth edition has three. Nothing about the actual work disappeared, but the boundaries between the pieces did, and that matters if you are studying, writing training material, or maintaining a glossary that still lists the old process names as processes. What … Read more
PMI has published the Agile Practice Guide – Second Edition. The first edition, written with the Agile Alliance in 2017, has been the framework-neutral agile reference behind the PMI-ACP exam and the agile sections of the PMBOK® Guide ever since. Nine years later the terminology has moved, and for a glossary site that is the … Read more
For the past few months, PMI’s answer to “when exactly?” was a quarter, not a date. Its notice on PMP training hours said the live-training rule would change “starting in late Q4 2026” and promised the date would follow. The date is now on the page: 1 December 2026. That is the whole news. Everything … Read more
PMI is revising The Standard for Portfolio Management. The draft of the fifth edition is in the ANSI public review stage right now, and the comment window closes on 7 September 2026. You do not need a paid PMI membership to take part, and you do not need to be a portfolio manager. This is … Read more
Update, 15 September 2026: PMI has since replaced “late Q4 2026” with a firm date. The live-training rule takes effect on 1 December 2026. Details: PMP Live Training Hours: PMI Names the Date, 1 December 2026. Three things really changed in project management certification in 2026, and a lot of what you read about a … Read more