Appendix B

Evolution of PMI’s Government Extension to the PMBOK® Guide Third Edition

B.1 Initial Development

In October 1998, the Project Management Institute (PMI) Government Specific Interest Group (SIG) appointed Nigel Blampied as project manager to develop a Government Extension. Over the course of the following year, articles were published in the SIG newsletter both to recruit team members and to begin a discussion on the features that make government projects unique.

A project work breakdown structure was prepared in September 1999; the PMI Standards Member Advisory Group approved a project charter in January 2000 establishing the Government Extension Project as a PMI Standards Project.

The team began to assemble in August 1999, mainly ...

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