BRC Academy / Delivery & Certification
PMBOK® Guide 8
The 8th edition explained for practitioners: principles, focus areas, domains and processes.
Beginner Sessions 1–21
- 1PMBOK® Guide 1st to 8th edition: 30 years in one mapHow the PMBOK Guide evolved from the 1987 body of knowledge to the 2025 Eighth Edition: process-based, principle-based, then hybrid.
- 2What's new in the PMBOK® Guide 8th editionWhat changed from PMBOK 7 to PMBOK 8: 6 principles, 7 domains with new Governance and Finance, 40 processes back, plus AI, PMOs and procurement.
- 3Principles, focus areas, domains and processes: how PMBOK® Guide 8 fits togetherHow the PMBOK Guide 8th edition fits together: 6 principles, 7 performance domains, 5 focus areas and 40 processes, mapped to a construction project.
- 4Predictive, adaptive and hybrid deliveryHow PMBOK Guide 8 treats predictive, adaptive and hybrid approaches, how to choose one per work package, and why most building projects are hybrid.
- 5Tailoring: the skill PMBOK® Guide 8 expectsWhat tailoring means in PMBOK Guide 8, its four steps, how to set each domain lighter or heavier, and a sample tailoring log for an owner's project.
- 6Principle: adopt a holistic viewThe PMBOK Guide 8 holistic view principle explained: systems thinking, interfaces and second-order effects, applied to an owner-side warehouse project.
- 7Principle: focus on valueThe PMBOK Guide 8 focus on value principle: outputs vs outcomes, benefits and value, and how an owner tests value-engineering proposals.
- 8Principle: embed qualityThe PMBOK Guide 8 embed quality principle: prevention over inspection, acceptance criteria, cost of quality, and an owner's inspection and test plan.
- 9Principle: be an accountable leaderThe PMBOK Guide 8 accountable leader principle: accountability vs responsibility, decision rights, ethics and escalation on an owner-side project.
- 10Principle: integrate sustainabilityThe new PMBOK Guide 8 sustainability principle: environmental, social and economic lenses across the life cycle, applied to an Ontario warehouse.
- 11Principle: build an empowered cultureThe PMBOK Guide 8 empowered culture principle: clarity, authority and psychological safety, and how an owner builds them across contract lines.
- 12Focus area: InitiatingThe Initiating focus area in PMBOK Guide 8: authorizing a project or phase, the charter, identifying stakeholders, and a construction-phase start.
- 13Focus area: PlanningThe PMBOK Guide 8 Planning focus area: its 19 processes by domain, rules vs baselines, plan alignment, and an owner's planning map for a warehouse.
- 14Focus area: ExecutingThe PMBOK Guide 8 Executing focus area: its 8 processes, what an owner executes on a stipulated-price job, QA versus QC, and an owner's working rhythm.
- 15Focus area: Monitoring and ControllingThe PMBOK Guide 8 Monitoring and Controlling focus area: 10 processes, the control loop, change control under CCDC 2-2020, and reading SPI as an owner.
- 16Focus area: ClosingThe PMBOK Guide 8 Closing focus area: Close Project or Phase, phase gates, an owner's close-out sequence, lessons that stick, and closing early.
- 17Domain: GovernanceThe PMBOK Guide 8 Governance domain: its 9 processes across all focus areas, governance models, decision rights and escalation for an owner's project.
- 18Domain: ScopeThe PMBOK Guide 8 Scope domain: its six processes, requirements, the scope baseline and WBS, and validating vs controlling scope on an owner's project.
- 19Domain: ScheduleThe PMBOK Guide 8 Schedule domain: its three processes, what Develop Schedule now holds, critical path and float, and how an owner controls two schedules.
- 20Domain: FinanceThe PMBOK Guide 8 Finance domain: four processes, budgets and reserves, cash flow with holdback, and earned value for an owner on a stipulated price job.
- 21Domain: StakeholdersThe PMBOK Guide 8 Stakeholders domain: seven processes with communications folded in, stakeholder mapping, engagement levels and an owner's comms plan.
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