For our 10th anniversary as SUKAD we have decided to run a competition where we give away enrollment to our classes and sets of books.
Every week we ask one question – and there will be 4 winners; 2 win courses’ enrollment and 2 win set of books.
The first week we asked the following question:
“Can you provide the names of the project phases or stages on the project life cycle?”
Before you read more … can you think of the answer?
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We expect some readers will answers like what most respondents answered: “Initiating, Planning, Executing, Monitoring & Controlling, and Closing”. We realize that most give this answer because of the image below from the PMBOK Guide. I am sure you realize these are called process groups.
Again, these are the process groups from the PMBOK Guide, which is published and copyright to the Project Management Institute.
If you answered “Initiating, Planning, Executing, Monitoring & Controlling, and Closing” then you are making the most common mistakes where most practitioner who are PMP or follow PMI makes. These process groups are NOT project phases. Per the PMBOK Guide the process groups repeat in EVERY PHASE! Refer to the next two images – both explain this point in a different way.
The first image
The Second Image
We have published many articles on this topic before, you can search our blog site for more reading. We are also working on book on the PMBOK but that might be a few months before it would be ready.
