Regards.

Thanks ,

Amir

I havn’t really gone through the book and neither do i know anything about it.Im an architect and was looking forward to learning project management and getting some form of certification for the same,rather than doing a 2year full time masters degree in it.

would anyone be able to tell me if going through this book would help in my case(for architectural projects).

can anyone help out??please mail me on alfera17@gmail.com if possible.

PMBOK still has a long way to go to make it a workable support to real projects.

John, That’s pretty funny because that’s exactly what I said when I joined the PMBOK Guide, 3rd ed. team in 2002. Each iteration of the PMBOK Guide is a major improvement of the previous, and while I do not agree that ANY version is “badly written”, I would say that each is done in the best way possible by those doing the tasks involved in publishing this standard.

When we (the PMBOK Guide, 3rd ed. project core team) started the 3rd edition project, we, the hundreds of contributors, and the entire PM community at large, were well aware of the gaps in the 2nd ed. We worked very hard and diligently for four years … all the while knowing that it would not be “perfect”, and that subsequent versions would continue the philosophy of “continuous improvement”. However we were stisfied that we had the opportunity to remedy the deficiencies in the previous edition.

As an example we received hundreds of suggestions. Each and every one was evaluated for merit by several teams. After culling redundant and irrelevant suggestions, the remaining were triaged and reviewed again by increasingly larger teams. Final incorporated suggestions (as well as all changes) were again reviewed by the hundreds of volunteers comprising the dozen or so sub-teams. We (and most of the PM community) were quite proud of the final deliverable. It met many, many needs for practioners and students of the PM arts.

Like you I felt strongly about the quality of the 2nd edition, and quickly volunteered my 2-cents at the earliest opportunity. I would encourage you to do the same as PMI gears up for the 5th edition in the near future.

Best,
Mr. Dana Goulston, PMP
Co-author PMBOK Guide, 3rd edition

Is there any Changes in Exam Patern after PIMBOK - 4 th edition release.??

Pls advise .

PM(BOK) still has a long way to go to make it a workable support to real projects. At the moment it’s still project management for project management’s sake. The best example to support my statement is this “The Fourth Edition has a new appendix on interpersonal skills. There was information that we felt was important to managing a project, but was not consistent with the intent of a standard. ” - projects are MOSTLY about soft skills - manageing people. People make things happen, it’s the way things are done. A methodology that doesn’t include this at its core will be a finely oiled and designed machine that just doesn’t work in real life.

Mohammad

Thank you soo much!

Simon

This is certainly a nice insight for what’z new in Fourth Edition. I was planning to attend Third Edition training this month which would give me a very littel time to prepare myself for examination in May. Do you advise people to jump into it in hurry and attempt it before May 09 or should we wait till June, attend the new edition training session and then attempt for the PMP certification?
Please suggest.

-Nitin