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This unpublished paper was first written in February 1996 and has since been revised several times and is now updated for web presentation.
Note: The Project Management Institute, USA, has adopted the acronyms "PMI", "PMBOK", "PMP" as their registered marks.
Published here May 2003.
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Terminology
When PMI first developed its PMBOK guide, I was quite happy with this term "PMBOK". However, as time went by I began to question whether there is in fact such an exclusive domain since it includes knowledge from other domains as well as from project management. Indeed, perhaps the term is presumptuous or even misleading for in fact there are many discipline-related bodies of knowledge. If we use a similar acronym structure, these could be described as XX-related BoKs, or XXrBoKs. For example:
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Project Management
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PMrBoK
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Human Resources Management
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HRrBoK
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General Management
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GMrBoK
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Technical Management
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TMrBoK
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Industry or Sector Management
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IMr or SMrBoK
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And so on.
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I have used this format in the following text. For convenience I have also shortened both project management and project manager to "PM" as the context is always self-evident.
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Background
