The AMA Handbook of Project Management, 3rd Edition

Section One: Introduction

PROJECT MANAGEMENT KNOWLEDGE … PLUS

Serious students and practitioners of project management are already familiar with the PMBOK^® Guide—the professional standard published by the Project Management Institute. This document provides the foundation for the study and practice of our discipline. Like most standards, it is both very detailed and very high level. That is to say, each knowledge area and process group described in the PMBOK^® Guide is described in as much detail as possible when creating a document that must, by definition, apply to all projects in all fields of endeavor. For the new project manager—or the project manager faced with a specific problem in need of a specific solution—such standards often seem frustratingly ...