TABLE OF CONTENTS The purpose of this appendix is to give a detailed explanation of the changes made to A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK Guide) Third Edition to create the PMBOK Guide Fourth Edition.
The approved scope statement for the PMBOK Guide Fourth Edition explicitly states that the team should undertake Any necessary work to make the standard more accurate, up to date, relevant, clear, concise, and easy to understand and implement. This may include the re-organization of content, additional content, refinement of content, or deletion of content.
With that directive in mind, the update team adopted an approach aimed at achieving a greater degree of consistency and clarity by refining the processes, standardizing inputs and outputs where possible, and implementing a global approach for documenting the inputs and outputs.
The Fourth Edition, in keeping with the consistency requirement, completed the change to verb noun format for all processes. Standard verbiage was incorporated throughout the document when describing recurring concepts to aid the reader s understanding.
In addition, since process descriptions are located in four places throughout the document, these descriptions were rewritten...
