Standards & Publications

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.

Stay Connected

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.

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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