Government Extension to a Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK Guide)--2000 Edition

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Summary: DoD PMBOK and much need extension to PMBOK
Review: I use this book often in our PMO for Defense and Civil space systems and find it a much needed replacement for PMBOK.

First a previous reviewer claimed that this book is $9. It is actually free (in PDF format) from the DoD acquisition community site. Second the percentage change is reverse the previous. About 70% is new.

Either buy if you want a bound version or download to make your own book, because...

1. The areas of PMBOK that are vague and comfusing, lacking implementation details have been replaced.
2. The over simplification of spiral development is replaced with the standard Phase A/B C/D incremental PM processes
3. Much of the generalization in PMBOK has been replaced with specific actionalable outcomes.

Rating:
Summary: Not worth more than 9 USD
Review: This book gives some basic information, but 75% of the text refers to the PMBOK, which you also have to buy to read it. It gives a few tips...like you may have problems with your scope because there is a multiple ownership...All in all there are about 30 pages of information, so, in my opinion it is worth about 6 USD. If you are a public project manager it brings you no insite into how to do your job better.