All new terms of the PMBOK 5th edition

It took a bit longer to go through this, but here they are, all the terms that have been added to the 5th edition of the Project Management Body of Knowledge, 5th edition. There are some interesting terms in it, terms that we would have thought were already part of the project management world but that had not been added officially. And who would have thought that Emotional Intelligence finally made it into the PMBOK? 238 new terms while some terms also had to leave our beloved PMBOK. Schedule Activity had to leave the PMBOK already in the 4th edition, but what has S-Curve done to the project world that it did not make it into the 5th edition?

Please, let us know if you have concerns about one of our new definitions, here is a complete list:

• Accepted Deliverables
• Accuracy
• Acquisition
• Activity Cost Estimates
• Activity Network Diagrams
• Activity Resource Requirements
• Adaptive Life Cycle
• Additional Quality Planning Tools
• Adjusting Leads and Lags
• Advertising
• Affinity Diagram
• Agreement
• Alternative Analysis
• Alternatives Generation
• Analytical Techniques
• Applying Leads and Lags
• Approved Change Requests Review
• Attribute Sampling
• Backlog
• Basis of Estimates
• Benchmarking
• Bidder Conference
• Business Case
• Business Value
• Cause and Effect Diagram
• Central Tendency
• Change Control Tools
• Change Log
• Checklist Analysis
• Checksheets
• Claims Administration
• Close Procurements
• Close Project or Phase
• Closed Procurements
• Closing Process Group
• Collect Requirements
• Colocation
• Communication Constraints
• Communication Methods
• Communication Models
• Communication Requirements Analysis
• Communication Technology
• Communications Management Plan
• Compliance
• Conduct Procurements
• Conflict Management
• Conformance
• Conformance Work
• Context Diagrams
• Contingent Reserve Strategies
• Contract Change Control System
• Control Chart
• Control Communications
• Control Costs
• Control Procurements
• Control Quality
• Control Risks
• Control Schedule
• Control Scope
• Control Stakeholder Engagement
• Cost Aggregation
• Cost Plus Award Fee Contract (CPAF)
• Cost-Plus-Percentage of Cost (CPPC)
• Cost-Benefit-Analysis
• Critical Path Activity
• Customer Satisfaction
• Data Gathering and Representation Techniques
• Define Activities
• Define Scope
• Dependency Determination
• Design of Experiments
• Determine Budget
• Develop Schedule
• Diagramming Techniques
• Dictatorship
• Direct and Manage Project Work
• Discretionary Dependency
• Document Analysis
• Documentation Reviews
• Emotional Intellligence
• Estimate Activity Durations
• Estimate Activity Resources
• Estimate Costs
• External Dependency
• Facilitated Workshops
• Fallback Plan
• Fee
• Fishbone Diagram
• Fixed Formula Method
• Fixed Price with Economic Price Adjustment Contract (FP-EPA)
• Fixed-Price Contract
• Flowchart
• Focus Groups
• Funding Limit Reconciliation
• Group Creativity Techniques
• Group Decision Making Techniques
• Guideline
• Hard Logic
• Histogram
• Human Resource Management Plan
• Idea/MInd Mapping
• Identify Risks
• Identify Stakeholders
• Incentive Fee
• Incremental Life Cycle
• Independent Estimates
• Information Gathering Techniques
• Information Management Systems
• Inspections and Audits
• Interpersonal Skills
• Interrelationship Digraphs
• Interviews
• Issue Log
• Iterative Life Cycle
• Majority
• Make-or-Buy Analysis
• Make-or-Buy Decisions
• Manage Communications
• Manage Stakeholder Engagement
• Management Reserve
• Management Skills
• Mandatory Dependeny
• Market Research
• Material
• Matrix Diagrams
• Milestone List
• Monte Carlo Simulation
• Most Likely Duration
• Negotiation
• Nominal Group Technique
• Nonconformance Work
• Observations
• Optimistic Duration
• Organizational Project Management Maturity
• Payment Systems
• Percent Integrated Change Control
• Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
• Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis
• Performance Reviews
• Phase Gate
• Plan Communications Management
• Plan Cost Management
• Plan Human Resource Management
• Plan Procurment Management
• Plan Quality Management
• Plan Risk Management
• Plan Risk Responses
• Plan Schedule Management
• Plan Scope Management
• Plan Stakeholder Management
• Plurality
• Policy
• Precision
• Predictive Life Cycle
• Preferential Logic
• Preferred Logic
• Prioritization Matrices
• Process Analysis
• Process Decision Program Charts (PDPC)
• Process Improvement Plan
• Procurement Audits
• Procurement Performance Reviews
• Procurement Statement of Work
• Product Analysis
• Program Evaluation and Review Technique
• Project-Based Organizations (PBOs)
• Project Funding Requirements
• Project Governance
• Project Management Staff
• Project Scope Management
• Project Stakeholder Management
• Project Statement of Work
• Proposal Evaluation Techniques
• Prototypes
• Quality Audits
• Quality Checklists
• Quality Control Measurements
• Quality Function Deployment (QFD)
• Quality Management and Control Tools
• Quality Management System
• Quality Metrics
• Quality Policy
• Quality Requirement
• Quantitative RIsk Analysis and Modelling Techniques
• Questionnaires and Surveys
• RACI
• Records Management System
• Regression Analysis
• Reporting Systems
• Requirements Documentation
• Requirements Management Plan
• Requirements Traceability Matrix
• Resource Optimization Techniques
• Resource Smoothing
• Responsibility
• Risk Appetite
• Risk Audit
• Risk Categorization
• Risk Data Quality Assessment
• Risk Reassessment
• Risk Threshold
• Risk Tolerance
• Risk Urgency Assessment
• Scatter Diagram
• Schedule Baseline
• Schedule Data
• Schedule Forecasts
• Schedule Network Templates
• Scheduling Tool
• Scope Baseline
• Scope Management Plan
• Selected Sellers
• Seller Proposals
• Sequence Activities
• Seven Basic Quality Tools
• Soft Logic
• Source Selection Criteria
• Sponsoring Organization
• Stakeholder Analysis
• Stakeholder Management Plan
• Stakeholder Register
• Statistical Sampling
• SWOT Analysis
• Tailor
• To-Complete Performance Index
• Tolerance
• Tornado Diagram
• Unanimity
• Validate Scope
• Variance at Completion (VAC)
• Variation
• Velocity
• Verified Deliverables
• Weighted Milestone Method
• What-if Scenario Analysis
• WBS Dictionary
• Work Breakdown Structure Component
• Work Performance Data