A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge and The Standard for Project Management

What the authority record establishes

PMI maintains the PMBOK Guide and The Standard for Project Management as a professional reference for project delivery and value creation.

Voluntary unless adopted through policy or contract

The exact official title, issuing body, jurisdiction, version or application record, and linked source define the scope of this page. Readers should not transfer the authority's status to a commercial product or infer transaction-, patient-, system-, site-, or organization-specific applicability from this summary.

Why it matters to this market

It gives system buyers a wider governance and delivery context without turning a software workflow into the project-management method or accountable decision.

Affected operating stages

• Governance
• Planning
• Delivery
• Measurement
• Uncertainty
• Closure

Capabilities to examine

Project Record And Portfolio Hierarchy

Ask how the system or service identifies the controlling source and version, applies customer-specific interpretation, handles exceptions, preserves human judgment, and retains evidence for project record and portfolio hierarchy.

Budget Cost-Code And Original-Contract Control

Ask how the system or service identifies the controlling source and version, applies customer-specific interpretation, handles exceptions, preserves human judgment, and retains evidence for budget cost-code and original-contract control.

Potential Change Event And Change-Order Control

Ask how the system or service identifies the controlling source and version, applies customer-specific interpretation, handles exceptions, preserves human judgment, and retains evidence for potential change event and change-order control.

Cost-To-Complete Forecast And Variance Analysis

Ask how the system or service identifies the controlling source and version, applies customer-specific interpretation, handles exceptions, preserves human judgment, and retains evidence for cost-to-complete forecast and variance analysis.

CPM Schedule Planning And Update Workflow

Ask how the system or service identifies the controlling source and version, applies customer-specific interpretation, handles exceptions, preserves human judgment, and retains evidence for CPM schedule planning and update workflow.

Program Portfolio And Executive Reporting

Ask how the system or service identifies the controlling source and version, applies customer-specific interpretation, handles exceptions, preserves human judgment, and retains evidence for program portfolio and executive reporting.

Project Risk Issue Contingency And Exposure Analysis

Ask how the system or service identifies the controlling source and version, applies customer-specific interpretation, handles exceptions, preserves human judgment, and retains evidence for project risk issue contingency and exposure analysis.

Contract Correspondence Notice And Obligation Records

Ask how the system or service identifies the controlling source and version, applies customer-specific interpretation, handles exceptions, preserves human judgment, and retains evidence for contract correspondence notice and obligation records.

Cross-Project Analytics And Benchmark Reporting

Ask how the system or service identifies the controlling source and version, applies customer-specific interpretation, handles exceptions, preserves human judgment, and retains evidence for cross-project analytics and benchmark reporting.

Affected buyer audiences

• project managers
• sponsors
• program teams
• delivery organizations

Implementation questions

• Which entities, products, populations, transactions, systems, sites, or jurisdictions are actually within scope?
• What is binding, what is guidance, and what is a technical or consensus standard?
• Which publication, adoption, effective, application, transition, and enforcement dates differ?
• Who owns legal, clinical, quality, regulatory, policy, or operational interpretation?
• How will a source revision affect open work and historical decisions?

Interpretation boundary

The publication does not certify software, prescribe one delivery method, or establish project performance.