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PMBOK 6: The 10 Knowledge Areas & 49 Processes
5-6 minutes
A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK ® Guide) 6th Edition was released September 2017. The new PMBOK ® Guide 6th edition contains 978 pages, including the Agile Practice Guide (186 pages). When compared with PMBOK ® Guide5th edition was only 616 pages, the 6th edition is one of the major content updates.
PMBOK 6 Knowledge Areas
2 of the knowledge areas are renamed:
1. Time management will be renamed to Schedule Management – this change will place an emphasis the importance of scheduling in project management.
2. Human Resource management will be renaming to Resource Management -this change will also place a boarder perspective on all resources that a project willneed; for example: materials, equipment, licenses etc.
PMBOK 6 Processes
In the 6th edition of PMBOK, three new processes will be added and one will be removed:
1. Manage Project Knowledge (new process) – added under the executing process group
2. Implement Risk Response (new process) – added under the executing process group
3. Control Resources (new process) – added under monitoring and controlling process group
4. Close Procurements (removed from 6th edition) – removed from close project phase
So there are 49 processes in PMBOK 6 (47 PMBOK 5 processes + 3 new processes – 1process).
PMBOK guide 6th edition will gear towards more suggestive wording instead of mandatory wording. Thus, 9 processes have been renamed as follows:
New sections for Agile Development
The Agile concept is incorporated in all 10 knowledge areas. Each knowledge area will contain a section entitled Approaches for Agile, Iterative and Adaptive Environments, describing how these practices integrate in project settings.
New chapter about project manager role
PMBOK 6 will contain a new chapter on the role of the project manager which discusses the PMI Talent Triangle and the skill sets organizations demand that make project managers more competitive and relevant-technical project management, leadership, and strategic and business management.
