Introduction to the PMBOK Guide

English [Auto] Mention of him but guide a lot already in our time together. And of course you know the Pinback guide is what a bulk of your PMP Exam is based on the Pinback guide is a publication from mine that describes the generally recognized approach to project management. It is the project management body of knowledge guide. It is not just the project management body of knowledge. The project manager of body of knowledge is really much much larger as everything out in the world about project management. So it's a guide to the generally accepted practices all of that information that's out in the world. The Pinback guide describes a good practice for project management. These are the generally accepted approaches of how you do a project in any organization. Healthcare I.T. manufacturing what have you. These are the generally accepted practices. It also establishes a common lexicon of terminology that what we call integration management regardless of the discipline is integration management or quality or communications or risk or what have you that we all agree as a project management community that this is what this term means. It's a fundamental for my exams as I mentioned the PMP Exam but also for the CPM the PGE MP to some extent the ACP the risk management professional and the scheduling professional. So it's a it's a guide that's going to be have some bearing on all of these p.m.-I certifications. Let's talk about the Pinback guide as I mentioned it's a guide to the project management body of knowledge. Overwhelmingly your PMP Exam will be based on the Pinback guy. This course is based on the Pinback guide 6 the. There are five process groups as you've seen already and there are 49 processes within those five process groups. Those five process groups are distributed across the 10 knowledge areas. Chapters 4 through 13 and the Pinback guy. Let's talk about the Pinback guide chapters so chapters 1 2 and 3 are kind of a high level overview and really give us a good understanding of project management and how the Pinback guide fits into the world of project management. First off the first chapter is just an introduction. It's just a QuickStart about why do we need him back guide and what it does. The second chapter is about the environment in which projects operate so unique to your organization the environments where you operate. We'll be talking about that coming up. Chapter 3 is the role of the project manager. What are the generally accepted roles and responsibilities that you do as the PM. Chapter 4 is on Project integration management. I like to call this chapter all about the gears. It's the only knowledge area integration management is a knowledge area that has at least one process in every process group. So initiating planning executing monitoring controlling and closing integration management spans all of those process groups. So it's a pretty large chapter because there are a lot of processes within the knowledge area of integration management. Chapter 5 is on Scope management and schedule cost quality. Chapter 9 on resource management 10 on communications 11 on risk 12 on procurement and 13 on stakeholder management. So that's the Pinback guy. Just a quick tour of it. As we move deeper and deeper into the course we'll be looking at each one of those chapters in detail. So this the setting is that this is all foundations and brick by brick. We're getting there. Building a good foundation as we move into the very specifics of each chapter. So keep pressing forward.