What PMBOK 8 Did to Cost Management: Three New Process Names

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PMBOK® Guide 6 had four cost processes. PMBOK® Guide – Eighth Edition also has four, but three of them carry different names, and they no longer sit in a knowledge area called Project Cost Management. If you still search for “Plan Cost Management”, “Determine Budget” or “Control Costs”, you are looking for names the current … Read more

Sustainability in Project Management: PMBOK 8, P5 and CSPP

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Sustainability is no longer a side topic in project management. The PMBOK® Guide – Eighth Edition lists it as one of its six project management principles, and PMI has published a separate standard and a separate certification around it. This article sorts the three apart: what the PMBOK Guide itself says, what the P5 Standard … Read more

Three PMBOK 6 Glossary Terms That PMBOK 8 Dropped

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If you study for the PMP with older material, or maintain a glossary, you probably carry a few terms that the PMBOK Guide no longer uses. Three of them are easy to prove: the sixth edition defines them in its glossary, and the eighth edition does not contain them at all. This post shows how … Read more

PMBOK 8 Cut the Schedule Processes From Six to Three

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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