A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK(R) Guide)—Fourth Edition Translations Now Available

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Feb 22, 2010, 08:00 ET

NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa., Feb. 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Project Management Institute (PMI), the world's leading professional membership organization for project managers, announced that A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK^® Guide)—Fourth Edition is now available in Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, French, and Italian. The PMBOK^® Guide is an internationally recognized standard that gives project managers the essential tools they need to practice project management and deliver organizational results. In addition to English and the seven other languages that are now published, the PMBOK^® Guide will soon be available in three additional languages: Arabic, German and Russian.

According to respondents of PMI's 2009 Pulse of the Profession survey, up to 51% of the projects they manage span multiple countries and/or continents. This trend toward globalization requires that project managers, regardless of location and language barriers, work with a common set of methodologies and best practices in order to ensure optimal project outcome and maximum ROI. PMI's PMBOK^® Guide is recognized as the global standard for project management as it contains the fundamental practices that all project managers need to attain high standards for project excellence. The PMBOK^® Guide is found in top business schools, corporate training centers and on the desk of hundreds of thousands of working project managers in all industries all over the world. Including previous editions and official translations, there are more than three million copies in circulation.

PMI's translation verification process is a rigorous endeavor that involves cross-cultural teams of project management professionals from all over the world who thoroughly test and verify the accuracy of the PMBOK^® Guide translations. Doing so ensures that the PMBOK^® Guide's principles are communicated in a precise, accurate vernacular that enables project managers to consistently achieve PMI's standard of project success within their own unique cultures and organizations and as part of global teams, projects and programs.

The PMBOK^® Guide—Fourth Edition is available for purchase in these languages on PMI's Web site.

About Project Management Institute (PMI)

The world's leading professional membership organization for project managers, PMI shares knowledge with nearly 500,000 members and credential holders in over 185 countries. Since 1969, PMI has impacted more than one million practitioners, businesses, governments, students and training organizations. Today, PMI's products and services range from world-class standards for project, program and portfolio management to five professional credentials, including the gold standard Project Management Professional (PMP)^®. PMI's exclusive Global Corporate Council and European Corporate Networking Group engage large multinationals and government organizations in endorsing the value of project management. The only project management association with an established academic research program, PMI has invested more than US$14 million in support of dozens of research projects since 1997. Learn more at PMI.org.

SOURCE Project Management Institute