Project Management Knowledge

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

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

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