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PMI, PMBOK
Training, PMBOK
Management Training, PMBOK
PM, Fundamentals & Overview
Feel Good Management

0807 -    ..
0808 - Summary/Objective
0809 -
080901 - Follow up ref SDS 3 0000.
080902 -
080903 - This evening I completed scanning the PMBOK received at the PMA event.
080904 - Did not have time to link it into much of the SDS record, but this
080905 - work can now begin and go on normally when needed.
080906 -
080907 -    [See later analysis comparing PMBOK and ISO 10006, ref SDS 7 line
080908 -    46.]
080909 -
080910 -
0810 -
0811 -
0812 - Progress
0813 -
081301 - Authority of Project Manager
081302 -
081303 - The PMBOK indicates in chapter 2.3.1 under figure 2-6 that "authority"
081304 - distinguishes "Project Manager" from a "leader" or "coordinator" ref
081305 - OF 1 line 1107 and ref OF 1 line 1122, supporting the analysis at ref
081306 - SDS 5 line 235.
081307 -
081308 - PMBOK identifies a "project charter" in section 5.1.3.2, as a document
081309 - that provides the project manager with the authority to apply
081310 - organizational resources to project activies, ref OF 1 line 2717.
081311 -
081312 -    Comment
081313 -
081314 -    Both of these prescriptions fail to state that unless a manager has
081315 -    authority to compel performance with responsibility, then it cannot
081316 -    be said that a "project manager" is assigned, nor that "project
081317 -    management" is being used.
081318 -
081319 -    Feel Good management is at work when a PM does not have authority
081320 -    to perform, ref SDS 5 line 288, and ref SDS 6 line 132.
081321 -
081322 -
081323 - PMBOK calls for a staffing plan in 9.1.3.4 identifies "authority" as
081324 - part of "job descriptions" that should be written out.
081325 -
081326 -
081327 - Communication
081328 -
081329 - This is explained in section 2.4.2 (see ref OF 1 line 1357), as a
081330 - general management skill, and also under chapter 10 (see ref OF 6 line
081331 - 2750), as a requirement to manage "communication." However, neither
081332 - part of the PMBOK discusses the concept of "command and control of the
081333 - record."
081334 -
081335 - There is no mention in the PMBOK of the prominence of this function as
081336 - consuming most of the time and energy of a project manager, and the
081337 - consequent opportunity for improving productivity by improving
081338 - communications.
081339 -
081340 - The PMBOK maintains:
081341 -
081342 -      The receiver is responsible for making sure that the information
081343 -      is received in its entirety and understood correctly.
081344 -
081345 -   ... at ref OF 1 line 1329, and ref OF 2 line 2992.
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