Project Management Body of Knowledge
Background
This wiki article will be about one of the central standards within the field of portfolio, program and project management. The standard is project management body of knowledge (PMBOK) published by the project management institute (PMI). The standard describes the central tools and knowledge, which can be applied to a project to secure a successful project. The standard is based on the modern views of project management from the 1960’s when PMI was founded in 1969. In 1989, the first edition of the PMBOK was created out from a series of workshop with leading project managers from the industry. In 1996 the first edition was revised and changed out from comments from project managers. This process is iterative and PMI has contiounsly updated the standard several times during the years. American National Standards Institute (ANSI) accepted the PMBOK as a standard in 1998, and later by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Today the standard is widely known and used, and by December 2013 a total of 628,363 [1] people has been certified in the PMI. And a yearly increase of certification holders by 13% in the North America, 18.1% in Europe and Africa, while in Latin America it is an yearly increase of 22.8% [1]. By the increasing numbers of certification holders it is clear to see that the standard is being widely accepted and the importance and impact of the standard is huge.
Content of the standard
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