Product Description: The PMBOK(r) Guide Fourth Edition continues the tradition of excellence in project management with a standard that is even easier to understand and implement, with improved consistency and greater clarification. Standard language has been incorporated throughout the document to aid reader understanding...read more

Product Description: The PMBOK(r) Guide-fourth edition continues the tradition of excellence in project management with a standard that is even easier to understand and implement, with improved consistency and greater clarification. Standard language has been incorporated throughout the document to aid reader understanding; new data flow diagrams clarify inputs and outputs for each process; greater attention has been placed on how Knowledge Areas integrate in the context of Initiating, Planning, Executing, Monitoring & Controlling, and Closing process groups; two new processes are featured: Identify Stakeholders and Collect Requirement...read more

Product Description: The PMBOK(r) Guide-fourth edition continues the tradition of excellence in project management with a standard that is even easier to understand and implement, with improved consistency and greater clarification. Standard language has been incorporated throughout the document to aid reader understanding; new data flow diagrams clarify inputs and outputs for each process; greater attention has been placed on how Knowledge Areas integrate in the context of Initiating, Planning, Executing, Monitoring & Controlling, and Closing process groups; two new processes are featured: Identify Stakeholders and Collect Requirement...read more

Product Description: OPM3(r) -Second Edition continues to provide the tools necessary for organizations to measure their maturity against a comprehensive set of best practices. It includes: greater alignment with other PMI Standards, Introduction of Organizational Enablers - to promote smooth transitions within the domain, stages and process groups and to achieve a higher degree of organizational maturity; categorization by Knowledge Area, by Business Results and by Balanced Scorecard; consolidated best practices to eliminate duplicatio...read more

Product Description: Since its release in 2003, the Organizational Project Management Maturity Model (OPM3®) has been used by organizations around the world to minimize risk, drive the right projects, and align investments to accelerate organizational success...read more

Sharpen your project manager skills now! Discover the career benefits of climbing into the Project Management Institute’s (PMI®) new competency development framework. Like an evolving building’s transparent superstructure, the competency framework enables you to clearly see the interdependencies between your job knowledge, skills and behavior. Readily uncover areas of outmoded or faulty construction and tackle only what needs renovating. Enjoy the clarity! Researched by senior-level PMI members for four years, The Project Manager Competency Development Framework has the primary purpose of sharpening the skills of project management practitioners everywhere. It also guides the professional development of aspiring project management practitioners. Organizations will find the framework useful in guiding practitioners to their fullest potential. Individuals will find the framework useful in guiding the development of their own project management competence against a recognized standard. In PMI’s framework, competency units, clusters and elements combine to create the essential aspects of every project manager’s job. See for yourself: -Blend integration and planning: Identify the project stakeholders and develop a stakeholder management plan. -Join scope with executing: Establish an approval process for project deliverables. -Hook time management to controlling and schedule control: Implement a schedule change control system. -Intersect human resources, planning and organizational planning: Develop project team policies and procedures. -Take achievement and combine it with order and accuracy: Check to insure accuracy of data provided by others. PMI has connected dozens of units, cluster and elements to produce a superstructure of hundreds of career-enhancing performance criteria. You will discover that it takes two to ascend The Project Manager Competency Development Framework. Your job is to assess your knowledge, skills and behavior and develop appropriate improvement strategies. PMI gives you the tools to accomplish those tasks. Your employer is there to support and encourage your progress. PMI designed this superstructure for you both. Enjoy the climb!

Product Description: The Government Extension to the PMBOK® Guide-Third Edition, extends the baseline information included in the PMBOK® Guide-Third Edition to provide an overview of the key project governance processes used in most public sectors, define key terms, describe atmospheres where government projects operate and review the management life-cycle of government programs...read more

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Product Description: Book annotation not available for this title.Title: A Guide to the Project Management Body of KnowledgeAuthor: Project Management InstitutePublisher: Project Management InstPublication Date: 2009/10/30Number of Pages: 484Binding Type: PAPERBACKLibrary of Congress:

Product Description: The Practice Standard for Earned Value Management—Second Edition expands on the earned value information in A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) –Fourth Edition. EVM is often referred to as “management with the lights on” because it helps objectively and succinctly identify where a project is and where it is going...read more

Product Description: This at-a-glance reference intended to help you gain a general understanding of the features and benefits of OPM3, as you consider the possible merits of using OPM3 in your organization.

Product Description: A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide)—2000 Edition is now available in eight additional languages to help project managers around the world. Each of PMI’s official translations includes a bilingual glossary of newly translated and standardized project management terminology...read more

Product Description: The Construction Extension to A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) – 2000 Edition supplements, modifies, reinforces and expands the profession’s de facto global standard in an easy-to-use format for practitioners in the construction industry...read more