If you are a member of PMI, you can access this link to comment the current drafts for The Standard for Project Management and “A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge”:
A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge
The main changes are three:
Read on to get the details …
If you are a member of PMI, you can access this link to comment on the current drafts of The Standard for Project Management and A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge. These two drafts are now open for review, and once finalized, they will be unified into a single book as part of the 8th edition of the PMBOK®—the best-selling foundational standard periodically issued by PMI since 1996. The release date for the newest version has not been made public; we only know it will be sometime in 2025.
As far as we know, the main changes that we can expect are these three:
“The Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge” 8th Edition will include 40 processes, aligned with 7 performance domains and organized within the same process groups as in the PMBOK® 6th Edition.
Compared to the PMBOK® 6th Edition, the old 10 knowledge areas have been replaced by 7 performance domains:
PMBOK® 6th Edition standardized 40 processes organized in 10 knowledge areas (chapters 4 to 13) and 5 process groups:
“The Standard for Project Management” 8th Edition will include 6 principles:
“The Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge” 8th Edition will include 7 process driven PERFORMANCE DOMAINS:
PMBOK7 included 12 principles and 8 performance domains, most of them will be gone in PMBOK8:
“The Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge” 7th Edition included 8 PERFORMANCE DOMAINS:
“The Standard for Project Management” 7th Edition included 12 PRINCIPLES: