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PMI (Project Management Institute)

PMBOK Guide 8th Edition

The Project Management Body of Knowledge — the definitive PMI standard for project management, built on 12 principles and 8 performance domains that guide effective delivery across predictive, adaptive, and hybrid environments.

Overview

The PMBOK® Guide 8th Edition represents a major shift from previous editions, moving away from process groups to a principles-based approach. It introduces 12 project management principles and 8 performance domains that provide a framework for effective project delivery across predictive, agile, and hybrid environments. The guide recognises that there is no one-size-fits-all approach to project management.

Key Principles

  • Be a diligent, respectful, and caring steward
  • Create a collaborative project team environment
  • Effectively engage with stakeholders
  • Focus on value
  • Recognise, evaluate, and respond to system interactions
  • Demonstrate leadership behaviours
  • Tailor based on context
  • Build quality into processes and deliverables
  • Navigate complexity
  • Optimise risk responses
  • Embrace adaptability and resiliency
  • Enable change to achieve the envisioned future state

Study Topics

12 Project Management Principles
The foundational guidelines from PMBOK 8th Edition
8 Performance Domains
Areas of critical project management activities and responsibilities
Risk and Uncertainty Management
Navigating complexity and optimising risk responses
Tailoring
Designing fit-for-purpose project approaches
Stakeholder Performance Domain
Identifying, analysing and engaging the people who affect or are affected by the project
Team Performance Domain
Building and leading high-performing project teams
Development Approach and Life Cycle
Choosing predictive, iterative, incremental, adaptive or hybrid approaches
Planning Performance Domain
Organising, coordinating and elaborating project work over time
Measurement Performance Domain
Performance metrics, earned value, and informed decision-making
Delivery Performance Domain
Scope, requirements, quality and realising value
Models, Methods and Artifacts
The toolkit of thinking frameworks, techniques and deliverables