Product 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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #124 in Books
• Published on: 2004-11
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 380 pages

Customer Reviews

This is the bible
A lot of people would say that the book does not has flow and is not easy to understand etc ............... but so is project management profession to most of the people, even though they believe they do. People say it not practical, but many are the challenges in project management profession, and to deal with them we need to have a sound base of whats ideal. I mean how would you know the risk of what you are doing unless you know how it is supposed to be done.

This book is straight and challenges you.

Most important but very dry reading
If you can read this book and don't sleep then you are something :). I think this guide needs some facelift and some more examples etc.

A comprehensive treatment of project mangement relevant to construction management
This book is the definitive reference standard for project management in many fields - Information technology, manufactoring, pharmaceuticals and construction. Although many construction personnel have "project manager" on their business card, few know of and continuously apply the full processes defined in this book.

The early steps, such as establishing a charter, are freqeuntly given less attention, for similar projects, than is desireable -" Do it like we did the last one". The book's treatment of this subject can help avoid possible problems from this less than rigourous approach.

Time and cost management is well developed in construction, and the book's treatment of these subject offers little new. Scope management is well known in construction, but results could stand improvement, and this section can help refocus on this task.

Quality management is known and discussed in construction, but purposful action lags. Construction is just as capable of inplementing quality management as any other industry, and this section of the book is a useful framework for this effort.

The book does suffer from an unnecessary amount of technical jargon, which is a barrier to widespread understanding. Much of the jargon could be changed to terms with identical meaning, that are more widely known in many industires.

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