Following up on the previous post, this is another chapter that we deleted from an upcoming book.
I have been using the PMBOK Guide since 1996 and I used the original consolidated version to prepare for the PMP in the days where there were no real exam prep books. I became a PMP in 1998 and since that time, I had been contributing to the updates of the guide. However, in recent...
This will be a very short post and maybe more on the light side Technically, in the new sixth edition of the PMBOK Guide, per the exposure draft, there are only four process groups not five. Well – let us agree first on the definition of a group. Would you agree that a group of...
Earlier today I saw a post from a colleague that triggered this short post. What my colleague had posted is guidelines about how to complete the “first” document on a project. In the view of person posting the message, that first document is the project charter. This is not a correct statement. Yes, developing a charter...
A few weeks ago, PMI had released the draft for the Project Management Standard that is published in the PMBOK Guide. At that time, we published a blog post on the main points with the updated – draft standard. A week or so ago, PMI published the exposure draft for the guide part of the...
Introduction Over the years, the PMBOK Guide has the ANSI stamp on the cover, giving the impression that the whole guide is an ANSI Standard. However, inside the guide, one can find a mention that the ANSI Standard was part of Chapter 3 in the 3rd and 4th edition of the guide and an Annex...
I struggled with writing or starting this blog since I honestly did not know what to say. Is “I told you so” appropriate? Is it good that some of the PMI volunteers are finally waking up, appropriate?
Let us expand on the question: how to build a universal methodological approach, for managing projects that is flexible enough to adjust for project type, domain, classification, or a learning platform (international standard)? First, let us include some definitions.
Did some of the project management associations and organizations screw up the role of the project manager? Are they (or some of them) making the role of the project manager as the jack-of-all-trades and the master of none? Or, are some of these organizations confused about the role of the project manager and cannot make up...
This article was also published on Mr. Mounir Ajam personal blog site, because it is a personal opinion. It is a follow up to the previous post. However, we decided to share it here as well although it is not a SUKAD blog article.
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