What’s new in PMBoK 6 th Edition? Maksat Abdildayev, PMP, PMI member
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What’s new in
PMBoK 6th Edition?Maksat Abdildayev, PMP, PMI member
Agenda
1. Review of Major Changes
2. Review of changes to each knowledge area
3. Discuss with club mates their insights on new changes
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Major Changes
Scope of this review is limited to PMBOK Guide only.
Major Changes
Acknowledge Agile
Separate Agile Practice Guide released by both PMI and Agile
Alliance.
When to select Agile
How to apply agile in your context
How PMBOK 6th edition is mapped to Agile practices
PMBOK 6th edition in each Knowledge area have a Consideration
for Agile/Adaptive Environments.
Some agile-specific tools and techniques have been introduced,
such as sprint and iteration planning.
Appendix X3 describes it in more details.
My personal feedback: PMI has finally acknowledged agile and
incorporated it into all knowledge areas and processes. That
cannot be bad since agile is used not only in IT but also in
manufacturing, education, health care, etc.
What is your feedback?
Major Changes
Better Structure
There are 3 parts in PMBOK 6th edition now:
Part 1. A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge
Part 2. The Standard for Project Management
Part 3. Appendices, Glossary, and Index
In PMBOK 5th edition there wasn’t such explicit division between a Guide and Standard.
My personal feedback: New structure seems more convenient and understood
What is your feedback?
Major Changes
Stress on Adaptation and Tailoring
PMI has clearly stated that PMBOK is not a methodology for project management, it is rather a guide to create a project management methodology in your performing organization
First level of Adaptation: Methodology can be created by internal experts or externally outsourced professional consultants using PMBOK 6th edition.
Second level of Adaptation: project methodology takes into account the uniqueness of each project within performing organization, so project manager can adapt processes according the special conditions of his project.
In each Knowledge Area there is a subsection named Tailoring Considerations – more details how you can customize processes to your project
My personal feedback: New PMBOK is now more flexible and adaptive
What is your feedback?
Major Changes
More Focus on Business needs
PMBOK 6th edition is now more focused on business needs and resembles PRINCE2 now.
1. Project Business Case – a documented economic feasibility study
2. Project benefits management plan – a documented explanation defining the processes for creating, maximizing, and sustaining the benefits provided by a project.
3. Additional Project Manager’s competencies were introduced as a logical consequence of previous two items.
New separate section about Project Manager’s Role.
PMI Talent Triangle®:
Technical Project Management
Leadership
Strategic and Business Management
My personal feedback: Focus on strategic and business side of the project is really reinforcing the PM’s and projects’ role in an organizations.
What is your feedback?
Major Changes
More Focus on Knowledge Management
PMBOK 6th edition has now focus on Knowledge Management process
In the Integration Management Knowledge area a new process was added: 4.4 Manage Project Knowledge
Probably the reason is because Agile approaches are extensively generate knowledge during the project life cycle.
There are 2 interesting tools:
Knowledge management (explicit and tacit knowledge, networking, communities of interests, etc.)
Information management (coding explicit knowledge, information gathering and search in web, PMIS, etc.)
My personal feedback: Focus on knowledge management of the project is far better now than just archiving lessons learned in the past.
What is your feedback?
Major Changes
More Attention on Enterprise Environment
PMBOK 6th edition has now a separate section on Enterprise Environment.
Enterprise Environmental Factors are now categorized into two parts: internal and external
Internal: Organizational Culture, structure, and governance, geographic distribution of facilities and resources, infrastructure, software, etc.
External: marketplace conditions, social and cultural influence, etc.
Organizational Process Assets are now stated to be originated internally, and are divided into [Processes, Policies, and Procedures] and Corporate Knowledge Base
Organizational Systems – in new PMBOK 6th edition organizations are treated as complex systems in which projects operate within the constraints imposed by the organization through their structure and governance framework. Three main elements:
Management elements
Governance frameworks
Organizational Structure types
Organizational structure types – 5 new types of organizational structures:
Organic or Simple
Multidivisional
Virtual
Hybrid
PMO
My personal feedback: Although lots of examples for each category is provided and it is easy to understand some points, some other points are not really clear – new organizational structures introduction (PMO for example)
What is your feedback?
Changes in PMBOK chapters
Starting from page 642 of PMBOK 6th edition there is an
overview of the changes to the 6th edition.
Let’s look at them briefly
Section 1 - Introduction
This chapter was significantly rewritten. Basic
information about projects, programs, and portfolios
remains.
What is new?
New information on project and development life cycles,
project phases, and phase gates.
High level information about predictive, iterative,
incremental, and adaptive approaches.
New business documents are described: business case and
the benefits management plan.
Section 2 – The Environment
in which projects operate
This chapter was significantly rewritten. Basic
information about OPA and EEF remains.
What is new?
New content on governance, management elements, and
organizational structure types.
Section 3 – The Role of
Project Manager
This chapter is completely new chapter.
What is new?
PMI Talent Triangle is introduced:
Strategic and Business management skills
Leadership
Technical Project Management skills
Knowledge Area Front
Material
Each Knowledge Area has kind of Executive Summary
information consisting of four items:
Key Concepts
Trends and Emerging Practices
Tailoring Considerations
Considerations for Agile/Adaptive Environments
Changes in Knowledge Areas
names
Project Time Management Project Schedule
Management
Project Human Resource Management Project
Resource Management
Processes
PMBOK 6th edition has 49 processes vs 47 in 5th edition
One process was removed and three were added:
Manage Project Knowledge (Section 4.4) added
Estimate Activity resources (Section 6.4) – Moved to
Project Resource Management
Control Resources (Section 9.6) – added
Implement Risk Responses (Section 11.6) – added
Close procurements (Section 12.4) - eliminated
Processes
The following processes were renamed:
Perform Quality Assurance (Section 8.2) -> Manage Quality
Plan Human Resource Management -> Plan Resource Management
Acquire Project Team -> Acquire Resources
Develop Project Team -> Develop Team
Manage Project Team -> Manage Team
Control Communications -> Monitor Communications
Control Risks -> Monitor Risks
Plan Stakeholder Management -> Plan Stakeholder Engagement
Control Stakeholder Engagement -> Monitor Stakeholder Engagement
Project Integration
Management
Focus on Pre Project activities
Focus on business value
New process – Manage Project Knowledge
Close Project or Phase (includes Close Procurements)
More explicit on project documents change
management
Project Scope Management
More Agile Approach in gathering requirements
Business Analysts role is elaborated
Project Schedule
Management
Process “Estimate Activity Resources” moved to the
“Project Resource Management” knowledge area.
Iterative and on demand scheduling
Agile Release Planning and Iterative planning
Monitoring tools like Burndown Charts
Project Cost Management
Recognize Earned Schedule (ES) as an extension of
Earned Value Management
Project Quality Management
Change from “Perform Quality Assurance” “Manage
Quality”
More Tools to manage and control quality
Project Resource
Management
Process Renamed from Human Resource Management
Added Estimate Activity Resources
Added Control Resources
Self Organizing Teams
Team Values
Team Agreements
Project Communication
Management
1. Agile Communication
2. Social Communication
3. Rename Control Communication to “Monitor
Communications”
Project Risk Management
Non Event Risks
Project Resilience
Added Process: Implement Risk Responses
Rename Control Risks to Monitor Risks
New strategy: “Escalate Responses”
Project Procurement
Management
Process “Close Procurement” is removed
Project Stakeholder
Engagement
Rename: Plan Stakeholder Engagement
Rename: Monitor Stakeholder Engagement
Impact on PMP exam
PMP is based on PMI’s Role Delineation Study
Understanding of Agile is needed now
All content of PMBOK 5th edition remains relevant
Clarity on ITTO
20% more effort to learn
Conclusion
PMBOK 6th Edition has become better
My personal feedback: PMI has done a great job by monitoring
the latest trends in the field of project management and then
embedding them into the PMBOK.
What is your feedback?
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