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A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge, Third E

A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge, Third Edition (PMBOK Guides) By Project Management Institute * Publisher: Project Management Institute * Number Of Pages: 380 * Publication Date: 2004-11 * ISBN-10 / ASIN: 193069945X * ISBN-13 / EAN: 9781930699458 * Binding: Paperback Book Description: A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide)—2000 Edition is now available in eight additional languages to help project managers around the world. Each of PMI’s official translations includes a bilingual glossary of newly translated and standardized project management terminology. This allows candidates to study the guide in the same language in which they plan to take the Project Management Professional (PMP®) certification exam. PMI undertook a rigorous, year-long process to ensure the maximum effectiveness of each official translation. Each translation team included qualified bilingual PMPs as well as professional translators and editors. Official translations: Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Korean, German and Italian. Summary: Project Managment Rating: 4 It’s a great book. I just have to find some time to learn more from it. I’ve got the feeling that this book not only it’s going to help me with things related to my job but also with my personal life. "Management" is a powerful word. Thanks Summary: PMBOK Rating: 5 PMBOK Guide: The most comprehensive, detailed information available on the subject Project Management Body of Knowledge. This book is primarily useful for those who are preparing for the Project Management Institute’s Project Management Professional (PMP) exam. At times you might find some topics repeating and at times boring. However, this book provides you with a very elaborate knowledge of information on Project Management. Summary: Great book for project managers Rating: 5 The PMBOK contains all the information you need to help you organize your projects and run them successfully. It provides down to earth explanations for each phase and describes some of the pitfalls you need to watch for. I strongly recommend it for any seasoned or aspiring project manager. Summary: Useful as a reference, but not as a learning tool Rating: 3 If you want to become a project manager (or even a better project manager), reading this book will not get you there. As a reference to look up an aspect of project management or a refresher, there is value to having this on your bookshelf, but as far as a learning tool, there is a good chance you will die of boredom before you become a project manager. My objection to this book is not the content - it does cover the core and essential concepts of the PMBOK. My objection is to the style of how the concepts are presented - imagine a 390 page lecture from your most boring, droning professor from college, and you will understand how this book reads. Plenty of information, but in a format that makes assimilation and retention of the information extremely difficult - unless you have the ability to mindlessly capture data and regurgitate it later. I don’t have that ability, and I suspect that many people do not as well. My recommendation is to get this book and use it to back up learning that you gain elsewhere...there are lots of other books and materials that teach project management concepts far better than this book does. And if you are studying to become PMP certified, this is certainly and investment you need to make, but do not rely on it as your first (or even second) source of information for acquiring the knowledge needed to pass the test. Ignore those who insist that you must suffer the boredom of this book to become certified - you don’t. Summary: It is what it is Rating: 3 By the time this review is written the PMBoK has been in print for over 3 years. I imagine the next version is nearly ready for press. So the most obvious reason you should buy this book is if you are planning to take the PMP certification some time soon. Take it before the book changes, especially if you plan on going through a prep course, otherwise you may be skating into unknown territory. What if you are just in the market for a project management text? In a way, this is not really it. See some of my other reviews for some other PM texts, and then there are other good ones beyond those that I just haven’t reviewed yet (because I haven’t bought them lately). The PMBoK is not a how-to; it is a compendium of all the things that you might want to do if you are running a project. It focuses on defining the processes involved in project management in terms of major processes, inputs and outputs. This is extremely handy if you are trying to set a standard of practice (which is PMI’s intent). It IS the standard in the profession, along with the UK’s PRINCE method; there is no point arguing with it (especially if you are planning to take the certification examination). It doesn’t often explain how to actually DO any of the things that the standard says need to be done. Not in this document but on any of a dozen related sites you can get MS-Project templates that assemble all of the tasks in the standard. In actual practice you are probably not going to do many of those things, but at least you will have a moment or two to think through why not. There is one supremely practical if cynical use of the full scope of the PMBoK. If you are in the consulting business and being challenged as to why the customer has to pay an outrageous overhead for a PM who is after all not doing any coding, bricklaying or whatever, then you’ll need to include all the stuff in the MS-Project template and use the PMBoK to explain what all those things are. If you have a customer who is dull enough to need to question why someone needs to manage the work, I can say from experience that when you drop the full-bore PM solution on them and "justify" all those hours that this customer will happily pay the bill and sometimes even insist on even more, now that the "need" has been "documented".

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