A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) – Seventh Edition and The Standard for Project Management (ENGLISH)

Appendix X5

Research and Development for The Standard for Project Management

X5.1 INTRODUCTION

The purpose of this appendix is to provide insight into how the update to The Standard for Project Management was developed. Content includes:

• Rationale for a move to a principle-based standard,
• Overview of the research conducted prior to the development of the standard,
• Description of how the standard was developed, and
• Information on how the content in the standard was validated.

X5.2 THE MOVE TO A PRINCIPLE-BASED STANDARD

Since 2010, PMI's standards program has included research in addition to practitioner experience to develop standards. Academic research, market research, focus groups, and practitioner experience have been inputs when updating ...