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PROJECT
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Project Management: A Common Sense Guide to the PMBOK,
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Start it, think about it, do it: A simple guide to building a project
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The Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge published by
the Project Management Institute provides a roadmap of 49 processes
designed to support project managers in all phases of project management.
The sheer number of processes and their allocation across process groups
and knowledge areas may leave project managers in a quandary about
where to start and how to apply the many components of project man-
agement processes. This book provides a simple explanatory guide for
the layman that clarifies the “big picture” of the PMBOK, explains where
a project manager should begin when managing projects, and finally
describes how the project manager can easily make use of the PMBOK
framework to progress from an initial idea to a project schedule.
KEYWORDS
PMBOK, project management, project, process framework
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List of figures xiii
List of tabLes xvii
List of box xix
i from the PmboK frameworK to Project seLection 1
1 introduction to the PmboK frameworK 3
1.1 The PMI Framework: It Is All About Getting Work Done 3
1.2 Projects Versus Ongoing Operations 4
1.3 Digital Versus Analog 4
1.4 The Process Groups and What They Mean in Practice 7
1.5 The Five Process Groups 7
1.6 Beyond the Five Process Groups 7
1.7 Why Process Groups and Project Life Cycles Are
Not the Same Thing 8
1.8 Knowledge Areas: A Content View of What Happens
with Process Groups 9
1.9 Process Groups and Knowledge Areas—How Do They
Go Together? 13
1.10 What’s Next to Think About? Complete the Plan 15
1.11 Do It! (The Executing Process Group) 16
1.12 Stay on Top of It! (The Monitoring and Controlling
Process Group) 17
1.13 Finish It! (The Closing Process Group) 18
1.14 Seeing the “Big Picture” 19
1.15 The Five Process Groups 19
1.16 The Process Logic in the PMBOK 22
1.17 Chapter 1: Important “Takeaways” for the Project
Manager 23
