PMBOK Fourth Edition and difference with Third Edition

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4th Edition of PMBOK was released this year. There are many terminologies that were renamed as a part of this edition. Eg.

  1. “Develop Project Scope Statement (Preliminary)” replaced by “Identify Stakeholders”
  2. “Scope Planning” has been revised as “Collect Requirements”
  3. “Plan” and “Purchase” processes in procurement management have also been combined into one process, “Plan Procurement”
  4. “Request Seller Responses” and “Seller Selection” have been combined into “Conduct Procurement”
  5. “Program Management”, has been added to the project management lifecycle, and the definition of “stakeholders” within “program management” has been expanded from the sponsor, customer, client, to, the PMO, Portfolio Steering Committee and portfolio manager
  6. As for the three types of improvement actions (“corrective actions”, “preventive actions” and “defect repair”) were all put into the process of “change request”

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http://www.pmi.org/Resources/Pages/StandardsFAQs.aspx

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