PMBOK Guide 7th Edition Review 18 PDU's, Renew the PMP

Create value by delivering new products, services, or results within larger systems. Manage change, enable changes, and align project processes to deliver value and improve products and processes.

Explore the value delivery components and the value delivery system, showing how projects, programs, portfolios, and operations drive value and meet customer needs within budget, scope, and time.

Improve information flow across senior management, portfolio managers, program managers, and project managers to ensure goals translate into value, avoid data loss and noise, and prevent failed programs and portfolios.

Explore how organizational governance systems guide the value delivery system, align processes across departments, and support project management offices and agile projects to deliver value.

Explore the functions that drive a project, from leading the team to performing the work and building deliverables. Learn how oversight and coordination, governance, resources, and customer feedback enable delivery.

Examine internal and external factors that influence a project, including process assets, templates, infrastructure, availability of resources, marketplace conditions, regulations, and industry standards.

Explore how product management guides the full lifecycle from development and pricing to launch and marketing, and its collaboration with project and program managers.

Provide a high-level overview of the PMBOK seventh edition, focusing on principles and domains, and clarify its umbrella role with details found in the agile practice guide.

Explore the 12 project management principles from the PMBOK guide 7th edition, framing foundational guidelines for strategy, decision making, and stakeholder engagement throughout budgeting, scheduling, scope, and quality.

Explore the PMI Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct, linking morals to professional standards and detailing four core values: responsibility, respect, fairness, and honesty, for project success.

Explore the 12 principles of project management from the PMBOK guide 7th edition, including value focus, stakeholder engagement, leadership, and tailoring approaches across traditional, agile, and hybrid methods.

Explore the stewardship principle, defining its commitment to integrity, trustworthiness, compliance, and broad financial, social, and environmental responsibilities in project management.

Learn how to create a collaborative project team environment that embraces diverse skills, defines roles and processes, and fosters transparency, accountability, and open information exchange.

Proactively engage all stakeholders—customers, project team, sponsors—through interpersonal skills to gather requirements and feedback, shaping value and guiding decisions. Identify stakeholders, analyze needs, and define how often to engage.

Focus on value by delivering outcomes that provide measurable and qualitative benefits to customers and sponsors, continuously evaluating progress to maximize value and project success.

Explore systems thinking in project management, integrating interdependent components like scope, schedule, costs, and quality into a holistic system that interacts with internal and external conditions.

Adapt leadership styles to fit the team and situation, motivate diverse members toward a common goal, resolve conflicts, and uphold honesty, integrity, and ethical conduct for project success.

Tailor the project approach to the unique context and objectives, selecting from waterfall, agile (Scrum, Kanban, lead development, extreme programming), or hybrids to maximize value and minimize waste.

Build quality into processes and deliverables by defining acceptance criteria, aligning with stakeholder needs, and using metrics to ensure deliverables meet objectives.

Navigate project complexity by addressing human behavior, system interactions, and uncertainty. Leverage risk management to anticipate disruption and keep deliverables on track.

Explore how to identify, assess, and optimize risk responses to maximize opportunities and minimize threats, including daily monitoring, risk appetite, and agile risk management basics.

Develop adaptability and resiliency in project management by embracing changing requirements, personnel shifts, and external factors, using open planning, rapid feedback, and continuous learning to deliver value.

Enable change by preparing stakeholders and guiding transitions from current to envisioned future state with a structured, incremental change management approach and motivational strategies to overcome resistance.

Explore project performance domains as activities during work that deliver outcomes, guided by principles, with eight interdependent domains—stakeholder, team development, approach, planning, project work, delivery, measurement, and uncertainty.

Identify, analyze, and engage stakeholders to align expectations, manage requirements, and ensure project deliverables. Monitor engagement and address opposing stakeholders across traditional and agile projects.

Explore the team performance domain and how high performance teams are built through leadership, servant leadership, culture, and shared ownership, with focus on communications, collaboration, and conflict resolution.

Identify the development approach and life cycle options: predictive, agile, and hybrid, and establish the right delivery cadence and lifecycle phases to maximize stakeholder value.

Plan proactively across traditional, agile, and hybrid projects to organize coordination of evolving information and deliverables, using progressive elaboration, and manage changes, stakeholders, and resources.

Execute project work by establishing processes, managing physical resources and procurement, and communicating with stakeholders; capture lessons learned and adapt to changes to deliver expected deliverables and outcomes.

Deliver value in the delivery performance domain by ensuring deliverables meet requirements and quality, realizing benefits, and satisfying stakeholders through requirements management and end-user feedback.

Measure project performance by tracking time, cost, scope, and KPIs to keep work on plan, take timely actions, and deliver value through reliable status and actionable data.

Explore the uncertainty performance domain by recognizing risk and uncertainty in any project. Build proactive responses, reserves, and resiliency to protect objectives.

Use the OSCAR model to coach teams from the current state to a future state by defining outcomes, assessing the situation, identifying choices, taking actions, and reviewing progress.

Explore PMBOK 7th edition change models, including managing change in organizational practice, a five-step awareness-to-rewards model, eight steps for leading change, the Virginia change model, and William Bridges’ transition model.

Explore the Drexler Sibbet team model, a seven-step framework guiding orientation, trust, goal clarification, planning, implementation, renewal, and adapting to change for high-performance teams.

Learn how to report PMI PDAs for PMP and ACP renewals, including assigning 18 PDAs from a PMBOK review course and submitting the course details for PMI certification renewal.

Review the PMBOK 7th edition principles and domains to deliver project value, engage stakeholders ethically, and lead your team, earning 18 PDU credits toward renewing the PMP with bonus resources.