The AMA Handbook of Project Management, 4th Edition

SECTION ONE

The Project Management Body of Knowledge: Comprehension and Practice

Introduction

FOUNDATIONAL PROJECT MANAGEMENT KNOWLEDGE

Serious students and practitioners of project management are already familiar with the PMBOK^® Guide—the professional standard published by the Project Management Institute (PMI). 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 in the PMBOK^® Guide is described in as much detail as possible when creating a document that, by definition, must apply to all projects in all fields of endeavor. For the new project manager or the project manager faced with a specific ...