PMBOK 7th Edition What is Changing?

PMBOK 7th Edition What is changing?
Abdelrahman Elsheikh Seedahmed , M.sc, PMO-CP,PMOC,CBAP, PMP, RMP, ACP,
PMI-SP, KPI-A, EVM,CPRE, MCITP, OCP, OCA, ITIL v3, CTFL, ISO20000, ISO27002

Abdelrahman Elsheikh Bio
 17 years experience as Strategic PMO Director, Strategy Execution Consultant,
PMO Consultant, Project Manager, Business Analyst and Software Engineer.
• Master Degree in Software Engineering.
• PMO Value Ring Certified Practitioner (PMO-CP).
• Project Management Office Certification (PMOC).
• Certified Project Management Professional (PMP).
• Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP).
• Risk Management Professional (PMI-RMP).
• Schedule Professional (PMI-SP).
• Certified Business Analyst Professional (CBAP).
• Microsoft Certified IT Professional (MCITP).
• Key Performance Indicator Associate (KPI-A).
• OCP and OCA.
• Certified Professional for Requirement Engineer (CPRE).
• Certified Tester Foundation Level (CTFL).
• Earned Value Project Management (EVM).
• ISO/IEC 20000 Foundation.
• ISO/IEC 27002 Foundation.
• Certified ITIL Foundation Level.

Disclaimer
• The information shared in the following slides related to the PMBOK
7th Edition Guide is preliminary and subject to change.
• The content is still evolving and may continue to change until its
release.

Agenda
• A brief history of PMBOK®.
• The Case for Change to PMBOK 7th Edition.
• What is changing in PMBOK Guide – 7th Edition?
• PMBOK Guide – 7th Edition -The Standard for Project Managements.
• PMBOK Guide – 7th Edition - A guide to the PM body of Knowledge.
• PMI Digital Content Platform: Standards Plus™ .
• What does PMBOK®-7 mean for you, the exam taker?
• How You’ll Benefit?
• Conclusion.

Agenda
• PMBOK Guide – 7th Edition -The Standard for Project
Managements.
• PMBOK Guide – 7th Edition - A guide to the PM body of
Knowledge.
• Conclusion.

The Case for Change to PMBOK 7th Edition
• It’s important to remember that
the PMBOK® Guide is really two
documents in one:
1. The Standard for Project
Management—the consensus-based
standard for the profession, which
carries the American National
Standards Institute (ANSI)
designation.
2. A Guide to the Project Management
Body of Knowledge, which provides
a framework for applying the
Standard using the broad body of
knowledge within the profession of
project management.

The Case for Change to PMBOK 7th Edition
• PMI Strategic Plan 2017
• PMI Global stakeholders (2017-2019)

PMI Strategic Plan 2017
• Due to the speed of change and the fierce market
competition, every organization, irrespective of
industry, is required to adjust much faster today than
in the past.
• To do so, organizations launch projects and expect
them to deliver results.
• There is also more emphasis on leadership and
strategy, two critical skills required to become a more
effective project leader.
• How work is getting done is also changing.
• New advances in technology are disrupting traditional
industries and thereby changing the functional roles
and responsibilities of workers
• https://www.pmi.org/-
/media/pmi/documents/public/pdf/about/governance
/strategic_plan.pdf?v=c419c417-71d5-4c66-9019-
b108e6bb2ef6
• From PMI
Strategic plan
there is direction
to make sure that
is PMBOK 7th
relevant
regardless of
how projects
deliver

PMI Global stakeholders (2017-2019)

What is changing in PMBOK Guide – 7th Edition
Visualize the Migration

PMBOK Guide – 7th Edition Contents
• Preface: Will explain the rationale for the changes from sixth to
seventh edition.
• The Standard for the Project Management:
 Introduction.
 Value Delivery System.
 Project Delivery Principles.
• A guide to the PM body of Knowledge:
 Performance Domains.
 Tailoring.
 Models, Methods and Artifacts.
• Annexes and Appendices.
• Glossary.

Agenda
• PMBOK Guide – 7th Edition -The Standard for Project
Managements.
• PMBOK Guide – 7th Edition - A guide to the PM body of Knowledge.
• Conclusion.

The PMBOK 7th Guide – The Standard for Project Managements (43 Pages)
• The Standard for Project Managements contains three sections:
 Introduction.
 The Value Delivery System.
 The Principle Statements.

The Standard for Project Managements - Introduction
• Explain what a standard is, its principles- based for why and for
whom it is intended.

The Standard for Project Managements - The Value Delivery System
• Discuss the connection between strategy
business objectives and Portfolios,
Programs and Projects.
• Value Delivery System is the holistic
system through which projects deliver
business value.
• Business value is the tangible and
intangible benefits received by customers,
employees, and partners of the business.
• And projects are the main vehicle that
delivers business value by achieving
business objectives of the organization.
• The 7th Edition of Standard for Project
Management, on which PMBOK is based,
shows how good strategy leads to
intended business value in the
organization.

The Standard for Project Managements - The Value Delivery System
• This is done through defining
organizational strategies that help identify
business objectives.
• Business objectives then turn in to
actionable initiatives such as portfolios,
programs, and projects.
• Projects produce deliverables.
• Deliverables increase capabilities of the
organization, producing tangible or
intangible outcomes.
• Increased capabilities or tangible or
intangible outcomes creating benefits for the
customers and end users.
• Benefits for the customers and end users turns
into business value produced by the
organization.

The Standard for Project Managements - The Principle Statements
• The updated Standard adopts a principles-based format in
order to be more inclusive of the full range of approaches
to value delivery—not just the predictive approach
traditionally associated with project management.
• PMI must respect the project professional’s right to choose
the correct approach for the project at hand—whether
that’s predictive, agile, adaptive, or a hybrid approach.
• The 12 governing Principles in the Standard are built
around a set of statements that best summarize the
generally accepted actions and behaviours of project
management practice regardless of development
approach.
• The Principles provide broad parameters within which
project teams can operate and remain aligned with the
intent of the Principle.

Proposed Project Delivery Principles
• There are 12 principles defined in the Standard for Project Management:
1. Be a diligent, respectful, and caring steward (Stewardship – Servant Leadership).
2. Build a culture of accountability and respect (Team - Accountability).
3. Engage stakeholders to understand their interests and needs (Stakeholders -
Engagement).
4. Focus on value (Value).
5. Recognize and respond to systems’ interactions (Holistic Thinking – System Thinking).
6. Motivate, influence, coach, and learn (Leadership).
7. Tailor the delivery approach based on context (Tailoring).
8. Build quality into processes and results (Quality).
9. Address complexity using knowledge, experience, and learning (Complexity).
10. Address opportunities and threats (Opportunities and Threats).
11. Be adaptable and resilient (Adaptability and Resilience - Agility).
12. Enable change to achieve the envisioned future state (Change Management).

Proposed Project Delivery Principles
• Sounds a bit familiar like Agile principles?
• While we do not have access to PMBOK 7th Edition at this time to
validate, I’m wondering whether there will be a change in Ethics
and Professional Responsibility part in view of these principles.

Agenda
• PMBOK Guide – 7th Edition -The Standard for Project Managements.
• PMBOK Guide – 7th Edition - A guide to the PM body of
Knowledge.
• Conclusion.

PMBOK 7th - A guide to the PM body of Knowledge
• A guide to the PM body of Knowledge:
 Performance Domains.
 Tailoring.
 Models, Methods and Artifacts.

A guide to the PM body of Knowledge - Performance Domains
• The seventh edition of the Guide builds on
the Standard and is structured not around
Knowledge Areas and ITTOs but around
Project Performance Domains.
• The Performance Domains: a group of
related activities that are critical for the
effective delivery of project outcomes.
• The Domains include important
management practices but are not
prescriptive “how to’s. “
• Each section explains why the specific
domain is important for effective project
management.

1. Team.
2. Stakeholders.
3. Life cycle.
4. Planning.
5. Navigating Uncertainty &
Ambiguity.
6. Delivery.
7. Performance.
8. Project work.

• Think of them as broad areas of focus for project delivery.
• Think about when you work on a project.
• You spend time focusing on the outcome or deliverable that
the project was undertaken to develop.
• You spend time focusing on the team.
• You spend time focusing on stakeholders.
• These are areas of focus that interrelate and interact with each
other within your project.
• There are times when a situation arises with a stakeholder that
you need to address immediately.
• That situation involves a stakeholder but it also impacts
planning, delivery, navigating uncertainty, project performance
measurement and other aspects of project work.
• So instead of thinking about engaging with the stakeholder in
isolation of everything else, you think about the stakeholder,
the situation and their impacts across the various project work
domains.

• Domains run concurrently throughout the phases of a
project life cycle, regardless of how you deliver value
(frequently, periodically, or at the end).
• If we use the examples above, your focus on the
deliverables has to include thoughts about your
stakeholders, and your team.
• But the activities associated with creating those
deliverables are different activities than those you
undertake in working with your team members.
• The activities interrelate, but they are different.
• They are interdependent, and they overlap in different
ways throughout the project.
• However, you can’t work on a project without
focusing on deliverables, stakeholders and team
members.

• There is another aspect of performance domains – they are outcomes
focused.
• Notice that outcomes are different from outputs.
• As you are likely aware, in previous editions of the PMBOK® Guide the
processes culminated in an output, such as a scope statement, risk
management plan, stakeholder register, etc. Outputs are fine, but they are
not the same as outcomes.
• Outputs enable outcomes.
• For example, if we have a performance domain around effective
interaction with stakeholders, I would want to know the outcomes
associated with that.
• For example, one outcome might be satisfied stakeholders.
• I can measure that with surveys, observing relationships and interactions,
etc.
• Each performance domain has measurable outcomes, and the outcomes
are different from an output.
• I might use an output, such as a stakeholder register to enable the
outcome, but the stakeholder register is not the most important thing,
stakeholder satisfaction is what’s important.

• This is a big shift in how we think about
delivering projects, so let me summarize it
for you:
 Project management performance domains are
areas of focus for delivering projects.
 They are interdependent, interrelated, and
overlapping.
 They occur throughout the project life cycle.
 They are outcomes focused.

A guide to the PM body of Knowledge – Tailoring (17 Pages)
• Provide a framework and key questions to help project teams tailor
the delivery approach.
• Justification:
 Meet a key customer need by providing a level of guidance not
previously included in the PMBOK Guide.
 Aligns with intent to be agnostic approach, method, framework.
 Supplement to organizational guidance and requirements, not
replacement.

A guide to the PM body of Knowledge – Models, Methods and Artifacts
• The Guide also has an expanded section
on tools and techniques titled Models,
Methods, and Artifacts.
• In-depth information about how to
apply these tools and techniques by
project type, development approach,
and industry sector is presented on a
new, digital platform called
PMIstandards+™.
• In fact, the entire PMBOK® Guide—
Seventh Edition will launch with a digital
and interactive element, delivered
through PMIstandards+™.

A guide to the PM body of Knowledge – Models
• Different models that Project Manger may find useful Such as:
 Making decisions in complex environment.
 Stages of Team building.
 Conflicts Resolution.

A guide to the PM body of Knowledge – Methods
• Little bit like Tools and Techniques.
• This is how you do things.
• It is mean of getting thing done.
• Such as analytics has to be done.

A guide to the PM body of Knowledge – Artifacts
• Little bit like (Outputs).
• Template, Plan, document, etc..
• Not actions to do such as (update project plan).

PMI Digital Content Platform: Standards Plus™
• As a project management practitioner or
someone with educational or research
interest StandardsPlus is a way to quickly refer
to Project Management Institute standards and
guides.
• https://standardsplus.pmi.org/
• PMI states that “Standards Plus was created
specifically to help you apply the standard to
your work“.
• This digital platform connects PMBOK to
content specifically created to help
practitioners implement standards at work.
• StandardsPlus has tons of content in the easy-
to-consume format such as articles, videos,
audios, and downloadable templates.

PMI Digital Content Platform: Standards Plus™

What does PMBOK-7 mean for you, the exam taker?
• Project management profession is evolving.
• For instance, agile methodologies were not in common in project management
as it is nowadays.
• In order to be compliant with the changing industry dynamics, PMP exam
changes every 3-5 years based on the PMI leadership conducted by subject
matter experts from leading organizations around the world.
• Every few years PMI does a role delineation study to understand how project
manager’s role is evolving.
• From the research it conducts PMI then refines the Examination Content Outline
(ECO) document which is the syllabus based on which PMP exam is conducted.
• Note that, PMP exam changes do not mean that PMBOK will change as well.
• Latest PMBOK (6th edition) has been released by end of 2017 and PMP exam
changed on 2018 Q1 based on the PMBOK.
• You didn’t think PMP is solely based on PMBOK, did you?

• PMI announced on its website (June 2019),
the new Examination Content Outline -
the PMP exam content.
• By the 2nd of Jan 2021, PMP certification
exam takers will sit for the new PMP exam
content outline.
• It is better to enrol in PMP training and get
your PMP certification before the PMP
exam changes.
• Note that, first, the planned exam change
date was the 1st of July 2020.
• However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic,
PMI announced that PMP exam change is
moving to 31st of Dec 2020.

• If you are interested in taking PMP exam based off
PMBOK-7 you got to wait.
• As of now this guide is not available, and once
released PMI allows several months’ time before
basing the PMP exam on the new version of
PMBOK®.
• PMP certification has tremendous impact on ability
to perform one’s job efficiently as well as increasing
one’s value in the market.
• If you are eligible to take the exam, I recommend to
prepare yourself to take the exam in the current
format.

How You’ll Benefit
• PMI ultimate goal with the Seventh Edition, of
course, is to make your job easier—to give project
management professionals like you greater
flexibility to be proactive, innovative, and nimble
in response to change—whether it’s disruption
from a new technology, competitors, or from a
health crisis like COVID-19.
• That’s why PMI new format reflects foundational
principles of PMI practice, rather than a
prescriptive approach.
• PMI believes this new format better reflects
current and future practitioners’ needs and will
remain relevant as practitioners identify the most
appropriate approaches to bringing about
intended outcomes.

How You’ll Benefit
• PMI new digital format also will enable easier
access, more options for providing feedback,
shorter update cycles, and new original content by
subject matter experts.
• You’ll have access to a richer, deeper set of
resources to put the standards into practice with
tools and techniques for managing various aspects
of project management.

Conclusion
• The biggest change is the shift from “process-based project
management” to “principle-based project delivery”.
• Instead of processes, inputs, outputs, tools, and techniques,
project delivery focuses on principles and outcomes.
• Knowledge areas will not be existing in PMBOK anymore.
• There will be performance domains.
• There will be a new digital platform: Standards Plus linked to
PMBOK.
• This platform will show current, emerging and future project
delivery practices for the use of project practitioners.
• Standards Plus digital platform is available for PMI members.

Conclusion
• PMI is planning to release PMBOK 7th Edition by the end
of 2020 (Q4 2020).
• The PMBOK 7th Edition has radical changes and a big
change from waterfall project management techniques
to agile and holistic project delivery methods.
• I recommend preparing and sitting for the PMP exam
before the changes happened.

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