PMBOK 3rd edition vs PMBOK 4th edition & references

Additional appendix on interpersonal skills

• - Leadership
• - Teambuilding
• - Motivation
• - Communication
• - Influencing
• - Decisionmaking
• - Political and Cultural Awareness
• - Negotiation

Summary

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The major differences between the Third Edition and the Fourth Edition are summarized below in PMI’s webpage:

• - All process names are now in a verb-noun format.
• - Efforts were made to distinguish between Enterprise Environmental Factors and Organizational Process Assets.
• - A standard approach for discussing requested changes, preventive actions, corrective actions and defect repairs was employed.
• - The processes decreased from 44 to 42.
• - Two processes were deleted.
• - Two processes were added.
• - Six processes were reconfigured into 4 processes in the Procurement knowledge area.
• - To provide clarity, a distinction was made between the Project Management Plan and project documents used to manage the project.
• - The distinction between the information in the Project Charter and the Project Scope Statement was clarified.
• - The process flow diagrams at the beginning of chapters 4-12 have been deleted and replaced with data flow diagrams.
• - A data flow diagram for each process has been created to show where information comes from as an input and where it goes to as an output.
• - A new appendix was added that addresses key interpersonal skills that a project manager utilizes when managing a project.

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