Comparison between the Project Management in Spain and Latin-America and the prevision in the implementation of the ISO 21500 standard.

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A comment to PMI based on comparison of ISO 21500 and PMBOK® Guide 5th Edition Draft Versions

Answer from PMI is attached related to a comment from Mario Coquillat (from ISO 21500 analysis project) to version 5 of PMBOK (made during Exposure Draft process)


Your Recommendation"Lessons learned" term is increased from version 4 (54 times) to version 5 (61 times) so is getting more important every time. A new process ("Collect Lessons Learned") must be included to define methodology because more and more praticioners say that knowledge is the most important project resource and thus it deserves to be treated as separate subject in the discipline of project management. Because it´s about all knowledge areas it must be included in integration (4.7)


Your JustificationThis new process is considered in ISO 21500 draft so PMBOK v5 must include it to be according to new ISO project management standard. I worked in this topic for last three years and there are no tools & techniques defined,so for example I created a methodology based on PMI risk methodology which I want to share with PMI (through publish an article through PMI Virtual Library and Project Management Journal). Probably, same situation about other praticioners because of lack of guidance in this issue.


Our vote on your recommendation: Deferred
Our justification: Thank you for taking the time to provide feedback on the exposure draft for the PMBOK® Guide—Fifth Edition. Recommendation DEFFERED – out of scope for current update committee project charter. Recommendation will be forwarded to next update committee for their consideration.

Comparison of ISO 21500 Draft Version and PMBOK® Guide 4th Edition

Stanisław Gasik holds an MSc in mathematics and a PhD in organization sciences (with a specialty in project management), both from the University of Warsaw, Poland.

Currently he works as a project management consultant and adjunct professor at Vistula University in Warsaw. He was engaged in PMI standardization projects (PMBOK® Guide, OPM3®, and other documents). He has lectured at global PMI and IPMA congresses and other conferences.

He has published papers in local and international journals, including PMI Project Management Journal.

Stanisław Gasik, PhD is involved in the current project as external advisor. Among his functions, he will review and improve all deliverables developed during the analysis, orientated to created a Help Guide to implement ISO 21500 Standard.

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