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PMBOK® Guide Seventh Edition

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Here’s what the PMBOK® Seventh Edition has to offer.

More Inclusive Content

We're updating our standards and guides to help you use a variety of different approaches. These changes are designed to give you more flexibility in bringing results and value to your organization.

Digitization

With PMIstandards+, you can easily take our standard resources with you wherever you go. They'll be in a digital format that you can quickly check, wherever and whenever you need it.

What to Expect

We first changed The Standard for Project Management and A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide). We promise to keep giving our members great value throughout their careers.

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Learn about our process and progress as we continue to share updates on our standards transformation.

ANSI ASD & ISO

We strive to provide the right tools for your job. As an ANSI ASD (Accredited Standards Developer), many of our global standards are also ANSI approved. We're also actively involved in ISO (International Organization for Standardization) activities focusing on project management.

Foundational Standards

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The PMBOK® Guide and PMI global standards continually and accurately reflect the evolving profession.

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Practice Standards & Frameworks

Practice standards describe the use of a tool, technique or process identified in the PMBOK® Guide or other foundational standards.
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Practice Guides

Practice guides provide supporting information and instruction to help you apply PMI standards. Practice guides may become potential standards and if so, would undergo the process for development of full consensus standards.
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Lexicon of Project Management Terms

The lexicon provides a standardized set of frequently used project, program and portfolio management terms with clear and concise definitions to improve understanding and consistent use of terminology.
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About Standards

Find out more about PMI standards, how they are developed and how you can get involved. Discover how PMI supports the success of international standards activities.
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PMBOK® Guide – Seventh Edition

A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) – Seventh Edition has been updated to better align to how people work today and help you be more proactive, innovative, and nimble.

Publications

PMI members and changemakers around the world can learn about the latest trends in The Project Economy through our array of printed and digital publications.

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Process Groups: A Practice Guide
Process Groups: A Practice Guide is our new supplement to the PMBOK® Guide – Seventh Edition.

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