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PMBOK 4 to PMBOK 5 deeper drill

Late last year, PMI came out with a new Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) v. 5.  Like a lot of people, I wrote something up about it on these very pages. Now that the date of the test cutover (July 31) is imminent and I’ve done a deeper drill, I thought it might be advantageous to revisit this subject: For PMBOK 5, PMI has made changes

PMBOK 4 to 5 – Stakeholder Management

The most significant new item in PMBOK 5 is the addition of a tenth Knowledge Area, Project Stakeholder Management. The important thing to know is that stakeholder management is by no means new to PMI. But they have taken it out of the Communications Knowledge Area and put it into its own Knowledge Area. As noted previously, PMI did this “in