Chapter Changes in the Third Edition
We upgraded the description of the Project Manager. We added a significant section on the skills required: Technical, Behavioral, and Business and Strategic. This originated from work by Vijay Kanabar on the PMI Curriculum Project. As a result, we added a chapter devoted to the Project Manager.
Chapter 7: The Project Manager
The PMBOK 6th Edition emphasizes Stakeholder Engagement. Therefore, we added a new Chapter on stakeholders.
Chapter 7: Stakeholders
The PMBOK 6th Edition renamed the “Time” Chapter as “Schedule (finally). Therefore, we rewrote the cost and schedule chapters, which are now:
Chapter 7:10 Cost Estimation
Chapter 7:11 Schedule Estimation
Chapter 7:12 Earned Value
Chapter 7:13 Cost and Schedule Tracking
We added a new part to the book on Agile Project Management. It covers:
Part III Agile Project Management.
Chapter 20: The Agile Framework.
- Why Agile? A comparison of Waterfall, Evolutionary and Agile. When Not to Use Agile.
- The Agile Framework, Scrum, The Agile Team, Agile Planning, User Stories, and The Product Backlog.
- Estimating Agile Projects, Relative Estimation & Story Points, Agile Cost Tracking & Velocity.
- The role of the Project Manager in Agile,
Chapter 21: Agile Sprints
- Agile Start Activities , Sprint Planning, The First Sprint
- Daily Scrums , The Sprint Work, and the Sprint Backlog
- Sprint Reviews, Sprint Retrospectives , and Sprint Velocity.
Chapter 22: The SAMPL App
- SAMPL Agile Start Activities: Vision, Business Case, and SAMPL Scrum Team
SAMPL Estimation and Tracking, Burndown charts.
SAMPL Sprint #1: Daily Scrum, Review, and Retrospective - Examples of Sprint Activities
- SAMPL Cost and Schedule Tracking
Chapter Changes in the Second Edition
Chapter Mapping between First and Second Edition of The Art and Science of Project Management
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1st Edition |
2nd Edition |
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1 |
Chapters 1,2 ,3,4,5 (Projects and their environment) Part I |
Same as First Edition
(Projects and their environment) Part I |
2 |
Chapters 12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24
(The Knowledge areas) Part III |
Chapters 6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18
(The Technical Skills) Part II |
4 |
Chapters 6,7,8,9,10,11
(The Process Groups) Part II |
Chapters 21,22,23,24,25,26
(Process groups, Processes and Knowledge areas) Part IV |
5 |
Chapters 25
(The “New Kitchen” Project) Part IV |
Chapters 19 (A new Kitchen) Part III |
Chapters 20 (The Picnic templates) Part III | ||
Chapters 27
(Microsoft Project Tutorial) Part V |