5 Major Changes Coming to the PMP® Exam
Mike Griffiths is a consultant and trainer who help organizations improve performance through shared leadership, agility and (un)common sense. He maintains the blog LeadingAnswers.com.
Some fundamental changes are coming to the PMP® exam. Currently slated for July 2020, the content and composition of the exam will be completely revamped. As described in the new PMP Exam Content Outline, PMI commissioned a research study into trends in the project management profession. This study, called the Global Practice Analysis, investigated which job tasks and approaches people frequently use.
The job task analysis identified knowledge and skills required to function as a project management practitioner. Now the PMP is changing to better reflect these practices; here are some of the major changes:
1. New focus – Switching from the previous domains (scope, planning, risk management, etc.), the new exam will be based on three new domains: people, process and business environment. These new domains align more closely with the PMI Talent Triangle® sections of leadership, technical project management, and business and strategic work.
Since project management occurs in a variety of industries, the business environment domain only tests universal concepts and does not get into any specifics around project types. The split of questions between these domains is:
- People: 42%
- Process: 50%
- Business Environment: 8%
2. New content – The job task analysis revealed that many project managers are using agile approaches, or some agile
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Published at Thu, 24 Oct 2019 04:00:00 +0000
