Introduction to the PMBOK Guide

English [Auto] I've mentioned the pinback guy 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 PMI 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 management body of knowledge is really much, much larger. It's everything that's out in the world about project management. So it's a guide to the generally accepted practices. All of that information that's out on 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 health care, IT, manufacturing, what have you. This is a 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 PMI exams, as I mentioned, the exam, but also for the CAPM, the PJI, M.P., to some extent, the ACP, the risk management professional in the scheduling professional. So it's a guide that's going to be have some bearing on all of these PMI certifications. Let's talk about the pinback guy, as I mentioned, it's a guide to the project management body of knowledge. Overwhelmingly, your exam will be based on the pinback guy. This course is based on the Pinback Guide 6th Edition. There are five process groups, as you've seen already, and there are forty nine processes within those five process groups. Those five process groups are distributed across the 10 knowledge areas, chapters four through 13 in the Pinback Guide. Let's talk about the Kimbark Guide chapters. So chapters one, two and three 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 quick start about why do we need to pinback 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 will be talking about that coming up. Chapter three is the role of the project manager. What are the generally accepted roles and responsibilities that you do as the PM? Chapter four 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 five is on scope management and schedule cost quality. Chapter nine 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 cause, will be looking at each one of those chapters in detail. So this is setting us up. This is all foundations and brick by brick, we're getting there, building a good foundation was we move into the very specifics of each chapter. So keep pressing forward.