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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Project Management But Were Afraid to Even Think About

The Project Management Institute, the non-profit group that has long worked to standardize the project management field, has re-published its seminal work, A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK). This is the third edition of a  book that is regularly updated to keep current with generally accepted project management information and practices. It is an invaluable resource for anyone involved in the field of project management, whether you’re the member of a team embarking on a new project or a company looking to purchase project management web software, you will find PMBOK the most complete compendium of project management processes and disciplines.

PMBOK recognizes five basic process groups and nine knowledge areas typical of most projects. The basic concepts are applicable to projects, programs and operations.

The five basic process groups are:

1. Initiating
2. Planning
3. Executing
4. Controlling and Monitoring
5. Closing

Processes overlap and interact throughout a project or phase. The processes include inputs (documents, plans, designs, etc.) tools and techniques (mechanisms applied to inputs, like project management software) and outputs (documents, products, etc.).

The nine knowledge areas are:

1. Project Integration Management
2. Project Scope Management
3. Project Time Management
4. Project Cost Management
5. Project Quality Management
6. Project Human Resource Management
7. Project Communications Management
8. Project Risk Management
9. Project Procurement Management.

Each knowledge area contains some or all of the project management processes. In fact, one of the changes in the new edition of PMBOK is the increased clarity an emphasis on processes, including highlighting that the five Process Groups are the key to the management of projects.

More than a million copies of a Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge have been sold and previous editions of the book have been translated into Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese and Russian. It is truly the ultimate project management reference book.

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