With more than 700,000 members, the Project Management Institute (PMI) is the world’s largest professional association for project management. It issues a range of accredited project management certificates.
These include:
The Project Management Institute (PMI) has published several standardization documents, of which “A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide)” is the most important. The PMBOK® Guide is now recognized worldwide as the most important set of standards in project management and is the basis for PMP certification and CAPM certification.
The PMBOK® Guide describes all process steps of professional project management from the initiation, the planning, the execution, the controlling to the closing processes. Further it contains detailed information on methods and techniques for managing scale, time, expenses, risk, quality, staff, communication and purchasing in projects.
The PMBOK® Guide is available in bookstores or directly on the PMI® website if you are a PMI member. PMBOK® Guide – Seventh Edition Member PDF download, Print and eBook versions are available in multiple languages including English, Spanish, French, Brazilian Portuguese, Italian, German, Russian, Arabic, Korean and Simplified Chinese.
