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IN THIS CHAPTER

Defining a project and its four phases

Breaking down project management

Shifting from process-based to principles-based project management

Determining whether you have what you need to be successful

Successful organizations create projects that produce desired results in established timeframes with assigned resources. As a result, businesses are increasingly driven to find individuals who can excel in this project-oriented environment.

Because you’re reading this book, chances are good that you’ve been asked to manage a project (or multiple projects!). So, hang on tight — you’re going to need a new set of skills and techniques to steer that project to successful completion. But not to worry! This chapter gets you off to a smooth start by showing you what projects and project management really are and by helping you separate projects from non-project assignments. This chapter also offers rationale for why projects succeed or fail and gets you into the project management mindset.

We are hopeful that you read this book’s Introduction but, if not, don’t worry, we can bring you up to speed. Whether you read the Introduction or not, keep in mind as you’re reading that one of our intentions with this book is to help you navigate the Project Management Institute (PMI)-published A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge, 7^th Edition (we use the abbreviation PMBOK 7 throughout the book) and prepare you for the PMI-administered Project Management Professional (PMP) certification exam.

Since PMI’s first edition of the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) in 1987, The Standard for Project Management included in and explained by the PMBOK Guide has remained a process-based standard aimed at enabling consistent and predictable outcomes…until now. PMBOK 7 introduces a fundamental shift from the process-based standard of the previous versions to the now principles-based approach of PMBOK 7, with a newly refined focus on intended outcomes rather than project phases and deliverables.

PMI has ensured that nothing in PMBOK 7 negates any of the processes, terminology, or concepts of PMBOK 6 and prior, but rather complements the content of the previous versions, with an updated and more holistic view of project management and its ability to deliver valuable outcomes to stakeholders. A few of the most fundamental concepts from the prior PMBOK editions (Editions 1 through 6), discussed in earlier editions of this For Dummies book (Editions 1 through 5), will always be true even if not explicitly referenced by name in PMBOK 7. We review those in the next few sections. You’ll know that we’ve transitioned to PMBOK 7 concepts and terminology when you reach the “Adopting a Principled Approach to Project Management” section of this chapter.