
Project Management Glossary: Every PMBOK 8 Term, Defined
This is the project management glossary of the PMBOK® Guide, Eighth Edition: every principle, performance

This is the project management glossary of the PMBOK® Guide, Eighth Edition: every principle, performance

PMBOK 8 groups all 40 project management processes into five Focus Areas — Initiating, Planning,
You mapped, analyzed, redesigned and measured your process. What is left is the part that
Buying a system does not transform a bad process — it only speeds up the
You redesigned the process. But did it actually get better? Without measuring, “it improved” is
You have understood the concept; now it is time to build the diagram. In this
Analysis shows where the process fails. Design is creating how it ought to be —
Modeling a process shows how it is. Analyzing it shows where it fails. Process Analysis
You cannot improve what you cannot see. Modeling a process means making it visible —
Most process initiatives die in PowerPoint: someone maps a beautiful flow and nothing changes in



