دانلود کتاب مجموعه دانش APM – (APM Body of Knowledge)

A body of knowledge is a set of concepts, terms and activities that make up a professional domain. The Association for Project Management Body of Knowledge (APMBoK) has expanded over time to reflect the role of project-based working in achieving objectives for change at strategic and operational levels, involving the development of new or amended products, processes or other capabilities and across private, public and third sectors. In this seventh edition, we use the term ‘project-based working’ (or the ‘management of projects’) to refer collectively to projects, programmes and portfolios, and we deal with aspects of projects, programmes and portfolios across the text, although acknowledging that not all aspects of project-based working apply to projects, programmes and portfolios equally. We have used the term project professional to refer to anyone working in a defined role within a project, programme or portfolio. A central tenet of project-based work is the need to balance multiple competing objectives and challenges within a defined set of time, cost and quality constraints in order to achieve beneficial change. This makes the concept of the triple constraint or ‘iron triangle’ as relevant today as when it was first introduced. However, contemporary management by projects is a more developed field than ever before and this gives the organisational leader a wider range of options about how to organise and govern a particular change initiative. In this version of the APMBoK, we explicitly acknowledge the ability to choose between multiple forms of life cycle – from one designed to guide the management of deliberate change in a linear fashion to one designed to guide the shaping of emergent change in an incremental, iterative or evolutionary way. Avoiding any simplification of this matter by referring to ‘waterfall vs agile’, we outline the choices that leaders can make and acknowledge the reality that many project-based endeavours now adopt some sort of hybrid linear/ iterative life cycle approach. The APMBoK is written for anyone interested in understanding more about achieving beneficial change through project-based working, however the structure of this APM Body of Knowledge is designed so that each chapter is written with a primary audience in mind.