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X1.2 RULES FOR HARMONIZATION BETWEEN GLOSSARY TERMS AND THE PMI LEXICON
OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT TERMS
To ensure that terms used in the PMBOK® Guide align with the PMI Lexicon of Project Management Terms 1 and
harmonize with other relevant PMI standards, the Sixth Edition followed these business rules:
For terms found in both the PMBOK® Guide and the PMI Lexicon, the definition from the PMI Lexicon is used.
Where terms used in the PMBOK® Guide are not found in the PMI Lexicon but are found in other relevant
PMI standards, the definitions of the terms should be identical. If the definitions do not align with the
respective standards, the term is elevated to the PMI Lexicon team for assistance in creating an acceptable
common definition.
1
Project Management Institute. 2016. The PMI Lexicon of Project Management Terms. Available from
http://www.pmi.org/Lexiconterms
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Sequencing Rules:
If the project charter is an input, it is the first input.
When the project management plan is an input or output, the subsidiary management plans are listed in the
order of the sections in the PMBOK® Guide where they are produced as an output, followed by baselines and
then any other plans.
Project documents are listed in alphabetical order.
Enterprise environmental factors and organizational process assets are listed last in that order.
When updates are an output they are listed in the following sequence:
Project management plan updates,
Project documents updates, and
Organizational process assets updates.