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PMBOK 8 in Action
All 40 Project Management Processes, Step by Step
Run them on your own project with AI — 63 templates and two worked examples.
Included with Kindle Unlimited. 661 pages · 139,028 words.
The Guide tells you what. This book shows you how.
The PMBOK Guide is a standard, and a standard is written to be precise, not to be followed on a Tuesday afternoon with a project already late. It names 40 processes and 53 outputs. It does not sit down next to you and produce them.
This book does. Every one of the 40 processes of the PMBOK Guide 8th Edition gets its own chapter, in the order you actually run them: what the process is for, what it produces, how to produce it, what it looks like when it is done well — and what it costs you when you skip it.
Two complete projects are carried from start to close through all 40 chapters, so you never read a technique without seeing it land on real work.
40
chapters, one per process
63
ready-to-use templates
2
projects worked end to end
661
pages
An AI prompt for every process
Each chapter closes with Do It Now with AI: a prompt written for that specific process, which you paste into whichever AI you already use. It arrives carrying the context the process needs, so what comes back is a draft of your own document — not a lecture about the technique.
You stay responsible for the judgement. The machine does the typing.
All 40 processes, across the 7 performance domains
One chapter each. Appendix A is the full reference matrix; Appendix B indexes all 53 outputs.
Governance · 9
- Initiate Project or Phase
- Integrate and Align Project Plans
- Plan Sourcing Strategy
- Manage Project Execution
- Manage Quality Assurance
- Manage Project Knowledge
- Monitor and Control Project Performance
- Assess and Implement Changes
- Close Project or Phase
Scope · 6
- Plan Scope Management
- Elicit and Analyze Requirements
- Define Scope
- Develop Scope Structure
- Monitor and Control Scope
- Validate Scope
Schedule · 3
- Plan Schedule Management
- Develop Schedule
- Monitor and Control Schedule
Finance · 4
- Plan Financial Management
- Estimate Costs
- Develop Budget
- Monitor and Control Finances
Stakeholders · 7
- Identify Stakeholders
- Plan Stakeholder Engagement
- Plan Communications Management
- Manage Stakeholder Engagement
- Manage Communications
- Monitor Stakeholder Engagement
- Monitor Communications
Resources · 5
- Plan Resource Management
- Estimate Resources
- Acquire Resources
- Lead the Team
- Monitor and Control Resourcing
Risks · 6
- Plan Risk Management
- Identify Risks
- Perform Risk Analysis
- Plan Risk Responses
- Implement Risk Responses
- Monitor Risks
PMBOK 8 organises work as 6 principles, 7 performance domains and 40 processes across 5 focus areas — formerly known as process groups.
Free · Appendix F of the book
And a free course that runs the 40 processes on your project
PMBOK 8 Together takes the 40 processes in this book's order and runs them against a real project — yours. Your project lives on a board in ProjectAdm. Each process hands you a prompt already carrying your own data; you paste it into whichever AI you use, you decide what to accept, and the process writes the finished document into your folder.
The book explains what each output is for and what it costs to skip. The course produces it, for your project, with your numbers in it. It is free, and it installs nothing — the package carries its own Python.
Four steps, about five minutes, once: standard installation.
Who it is for
- The project manager who has the Guide on the shelf and still starts every plan from a blank page.
- Anyone preparing for the PMP exam on the 8th Edition and wanting the processes to mean something before memorising them.
- The accidental project manager who inherited a project and needs to know what to produce, in what order, starting today.
- Teams standardising on PMBOK 8 who want one shared reference and one shared set of templates.
About the author
Eduardo Montes is PMP and PSM I, a professor, consultant and author. Fifteen years of practice, 507 projects and 17 PMOs are behind the two worked examples in this book — and behind the decision to write the chapter that says what a process costs you when you skip it.
Start with the book
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Questions
Do I need the PMBOK Guide as well?
No. This book stands on its own and uses the official PMBOK 8 terms throughout, so the two agree. If you already own the Guide, read them side by side: the Guide is the standard, this is the practice.
Is it useful for the PMP exam?
The exam moved to PMBOK 8 in July 2026. This book covers all 40 processes and all 53 outputs of that edition, and Appendix A is a reference matrix you can revise from. It is written to make you able to do the work, which is also the fastest way to remember it — but it is not an exam-cram book and does not pretend to be.
Is there a print edition?
The Kindle edition is out now. The paperback is in preparation.
Do the templates come with the book?
Yes — 63 of them, and the book tells you where to download the editable files. The free Starter Kit on the companion page carries them.
Which AI do I need?
Whichever you already use. The prompts are plain text and are not tied to any provider. You paste, you read, you decide what to keep.
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