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Practice Guides & Resources

Practice guides provide supporting information to help you apply PMI standards.

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Leading & Managing AI Projects Digital Guide

Discover a step-by-step methodology to align AI with business goals, embed governance and ethics, and drive adoption across the enterprise.

Leading AI Transformation: Organizational Strategies for Project Professionals.

This guide helps PMOs, TMOs, and project managers drive innovation by equipping them with frameworks to harness, scale, and institutionalize AI for company-wide success.

Project Management Offices: A Practice Guide

A groundbreaking resource designed to bridge the gap between theoretical knowledge and practical application, while shaping the future of PMOs.

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AI Essentials for Project Professionals

Access foundational knowledge and practical applications to incorporating AI in day-to-day project management.

Risk Management in Portfolios, Programs and Projects: A Practice Guide – First Edition

Our community has updated the requirements for applying risk management in portfolios, programs and projects with the introduction of this new guide.

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Agile Practice Guide

Created in partnership with Agile Allianceยฎ, the Agile Practice Guide provides tools and guidelines to enable better results.

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The Standard for Organizational Project Management

This newly-created standard provides a framework to align project, program and portfolio management practices with organizational strategy and objectives.

Practice Standard for Project Estimating – Second Edition

The Practice Standard for Project Estimating โ€“ Second Edition focuses on providing models for the project management profession in both plan-driven and change-driven adaptive (agile) life cycles.

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Practice Standard for Scheduling – Third Edition

Effective project scheduling and time management are critical factors in the success or failure of a particular project. The Practice Standard for Scheduling transforms chapter six of theโ€ฆ

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Practice Standard for Work Breakdown Structures โ€“ Third Edition

An essential tool for project planning, a work breakdown structure organizes a projectโ€™s total scope to help practitioners track projects across disciplines and project life cycles.

The Standard for Risk Management in Portfolios, Programs, and Projects

This publication focuses on the โ€œwhatโ€ of risk management, including: core principles, fundamentals, and life cycle.

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Business Analysis for Practitioners: A Practice Guide โ€“ Second Edition

Practical advice that will help you better meet customer expectations and deliver solutions that drive business value.

Process Groups: A Practice Guide

An important companion to the PMBOKยฎ Guide, this publication offers useful and practical guidance for a predictive approach to project management.

Benefits Realization Management

This guide will help you drive more successful outcomes and better strategic alignment in your organization.

Requirements Management: A Practice Guide

This guide gives practitioners clear guidance on the tasks and techniques of requirements development and management.

Governance of Portfolios, Programs, and Projects: A Practice Guide

Take a closer look at the different types of governance and learn how you can implement or enhance governance on your portfolios, programs, and projects.

Navigating Complexity: A Practice Guide

Understand how to navigate complexity in projects and programs using principles, tools and techniques referenced in the PMBOKยฎ Guide and other PMI foundational standards.

Managing Change in Organizations: A Practice Guide

Go in-depth on the change management processes discussed in our foundational standards. This guide helps project and program managers to identify and account for change elements within a project orโ€ฆ

Project Configuration Management

Project configuration management (PCM) is the collective body of processes, activities, tools and methods project practitioners can use to manage items during the project life cycle. PCM addresses the composition of a project, the documentation defining it, and other data supporting it.

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The Digital Transformation Playbook โ€“ 2nd Edition

Insightful ideas and best practices that drive digital transformation. Contributors include leading thinkers and practitioners drawn from around the world.

Choose Your WoW! โ€“ 2nd Edition

A Disciplined Agileยฎ Approach to Optimizing Your Way of Working. A pragmatic application of agile, lean and traditional techniques for your enterprise-class environment.

Introduction to Disciplined Agile Delivery – Second Edition

A quick overview of how agile software development works from beginning-to-end.