A guide to the project management body of knowledge pmbok. Pdf exploring interrelationship between three performance. The pmbok knowledge areas are very easily described here so that even a person. Article information, pdf download for the relative importance of the. Project integration management how we are going to incorporate the output of the rest of the 9 knowledge areas processes. Guidefourth edition pmi, 2008, which identifies nine. Pdf the performance output of software project management is an essential area of. An identified area of project management defined by its knowledge requirements and described in terms of its component processes, practices, inputs, outputs, tools, and techniques. Fourth edition identifies nine knowledge areas that project managers. Knowledge areas kas that the project manager should focus on during the project. Another knowledge area of project management that usually is ignored is project human resource management. Project management knowledge areas coincide with the process groups, which are project initiation, project planning, project execution, monitoring and controlling, and project closing. Gaining expertise in any one of these knowledge areas can help you become a. Pmi defines a knowledge area in the pmbok guide sixth edition glossary like this.
Although a guide to the project management body of knowledge pmbok guide. Project management involves lots of processes, which have been broken down into 10 pm knowledge areas. Open access 27the relative importance of the pmbok guides. An overview of pmbok the nine elements of project management. Pmi defines project integration management as, processes and. The relative importance of the pmbok guides nine knowledge. This particular knowledge area touches the five phases of the project initiation, planning, execution, monitoring and controlling, and. Although a guide to the project management body of knowledge pmbok guidefourth edition identifies nine knowledge areas that project managers should focus on while managing projects, it does not indicate the relative importance of each of these knowledge areas. It is the set of processes and activities involved in organizing, leading and managing project teams. Pmi standards and guideline publications, of which the document contained herein is one, are developed through a. Although a guide to the project management body of knowledge pmbok. Gaining expertise in any one of these knowledge areas can help you become a rock star in your organization. A guide to the project management body of knowledge pmbok guide.
Project management body of knowledge 2000 edition caricom. The pmbok describes nine knowledge areas or categories of the project management discipline. All project management processes belong to these process groups. The project management body of knowledge pmbok covers nine elements of managing projects. Project integration management includes the processes required to ensure that the various elements of the.