Relationship Overview Performance Domain to Knowledge Areas
🔁 Relationship Overview
PMBOK 6th Edition = 49 Processes → 10 Knowledge Areas
PMBOK 7th Edition = 8 Performance Domains → 12 Principles
PMBOK 7 doesn’t replace or list Knowledge Areas directly,
but each Performance Domain covers the intent or outcome of multiple Knowledge Areas.
🧭 Mapping Table: PMBOK 6 → PMBOK 7
| PMBOK 7 Performance Domain | Key Knowledge Areas (PMBOK 6) | Explanation / Coverage |
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| 1. Stakeholder Performance Domain | Stakeholder Management, Communications Management | Focuses on engaging, influencing, and maintaining relationships with stakeholders. |
| 2. Team Performance Domain | Human Resource (Resource) Management, Communications Management | Covers team leadership, collaboration, motivation, and conflict management. |
| 3. Development Approach & Life Cycle Performance Domain | Integration Management, Scope Management, Schedule Management | Aligns with tailoring project life cycles (predictive, agile, hybrid) and managing scope/schedule. |
| 4. Planning Performance Domain | Integration, Scope, Schedule, Cost, Risk, Quality | Brings together planning across all areas — now viewed as adaptive and iterative. |
| 5. Project Work Performance Domain | Integration, Quality, Resource, Communications | Covers executing and monitoring project activities, ensuring outputs meet requirements. |
| 6. Delivery Performance Domain | Scope, Quality, Procurement, Integration | Ensures that deliverables provide intended business value — outcome-based delivery. |
| 7. Measurement Performance Domain | Cost, Schedule, Quality, Risk | Focuses on metrics, KPIs, performance baselines, and continuous improvement. |
| 8. Uncertainty Performance Domain | Risk Management, Stakeholder Management | Extends risk to include ambiguity, complexity, and emergence (beyond just known risks). |
🧩 Key Takeaways
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PMBOK 7 doesn’t discard the Knowledge Areas — it generalizes them into broader performance outcomes.
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The 8 Domains are value-focused (not process-focused).
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You still need knowledge of the 10 areas for tools, techniques, and best practices — PMI directs you to PMI Standards+ for that detail.
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Integration Management (central in PMBOK 6) is now implicit across all domains — everything is about value delivery systems rather than project control only.
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