Description
A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK Guide) and The Standard for Project Management, Seventh Edition
The PMBOK Guide, Seventh Edition, marks a shift in how project management is taught and practiced. Instead of prescribing rigid processes, it focuses on principles, value delivery and adaptability, built around 12 project management principles and eight project performance domains.
The guide treats project work as no longer one size fits all, and it encourages practitioners to tailor methods, tools and governance to context, risk and stakeholder needs.
Outcomes over outputs
This edition emphasizes outcomes over outputs, helping project managers connect their work to business objectives, customer value and long-term organizational success. It integrates predictive, agile, hybrid and emerging approaches, so it applies to traditional project environments as well as digitally driven teams.
A learning framework and a reference
Expanded coverage of models, methods and artifacts lets the guide work as both a learning framework and a practical reference. Its integration with PMIstandards+ gives readers applied guidance by industry sector and project type.
Book details
- Title: A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK Guide) and The Standard for Project Management
- Edition: 7th (Seventh Edition)
- ISBN-13: 9781628256642
Questions buyers ask
Who is the PMBOK Guide Seventh Edition for?
Students, working professionals and certification candidates who need a project management reference and study text.
How is the seventh edition different from process-based guides?
It is built around 12 principles and eight performance domains rather than prescribed processes, and it favors adapting methods to context over following one fixed process.
Does it cover agile as well as traditional project management?
Yes. It integrates predictive, agile, hybrid and emerging approaches for both traditional and digitally driven teams.
Is it useful as an ongoing reference, or just for exam study?
Both. Expanded coverage of models, methods and artifacts makes it a learning framework and a practical reference.
What is PMIstandards+?
The guide integrates with PMIstandards+ to give readers applied guidance based on industry sector and project type.
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