A User's Manual to the PMBOK Guide, Fifth Edition

Preface

This book is designed to help make the Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide)—Fifth Edition more accessible to project managers.

It presents information from the PMBOK® Guide -Fifth Edition, in easily understandable language, and it describes how to apply the various tools and techniques. In short, it makes the PMBOK® Guide easier to understand and helps you implement the practices described in the PMBOK® Guide.

The information in this book is based solely on information from the PMBOK® Guide—Fifth Edition.1 Therefore, you will find identical definitions and many of the same tables and figures. Thus, we will not footnote each reference to the PMBOK® Guide because, as we have stated, that is the sole source for content.

We have included some forms in Appendix A that show you how to use a form or template to record the information in a specific document. These forms can be found in The Project Manager’s Book of Forms,2 published by PMI and Wiley. Again, since this is the sole source for forms, we will not footnote each reference.

To help make this book easier to read, we are using various icons, tables, data flow diagrams, and call-out boxes. For instance, when we use a definition from the PMBOK® Guide we have inserted a dictionary icon. At the beginning of each process we describe the process and then show a data flow diagram from the PMBOK® Guide so you can see how information flows through the process, where it comes from, and where it goes. Call-out ...