According to the PMBOK® Sixth Edition, Project Management (or management) is defined as the application of knowledge, skills, tools and techniques to project activities to meet your requirements.
It is a management implemented through the appropriate application and integration of the 49 project management processes, logically grouped in five groups of processes (initiation, planning, monitoring and control and closure) distributed in 10 areas of knowledge. Talking about definitions, the guide is concerned with defining “standard” as being “a document established by an authority, custom or general consent as a
model or example.”
In part 2 of the guide there is a clarification on the logical grouping of the group of processes and the figure below puts, based on the sixth edition, the processes and their location in this grouping.
In addition, this sixth edition of the PMBOK® guide adds the “Agile Practice Guide”, also containing The Project Management Standard (part 2 of the guide), where there is more detail about process inputs and outputs. It is highlighted the greater concern with tools and techniques in appendix X6, offering a more specific view on these items.
This part of the guide has a logic established in 7 parts that deserve a sedimentation in the professional of project management in view of its concern with the satisfaction of the client. The figure below presents the logical division of the Agile practice guide.
