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For questions related to the Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBoK Guide).

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Does PMBoK say that a project manager should resist any change to the approved plans?

PMBOK 6th Ed. Section 4.5.3.2 change requests may be issued to expand, adjust, or reduce project scope, product scope, or quality requirements and schedule or cost baselines. … As the other answers have said, PMBOK does not say that change should be resisted but that it should be controlled. …
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PMBoK vs The Standard for Project Management

The PMBOK Guide is not a prescription for how to do project management. Various bodies create and approve standards and ANSI is one such national standards body. … In 1999 ANSI approved the standard that is included in the PMBOK Guide. There are other standards however, notably the ISO 21500. …
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Pricing risks when developing a project's budget

It's a commercial decision based on your past experience, your business objectives and judgement about what the customer will pay. In my opinion fixed price is a poor idea for a one-off software devel …
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The relation between a project and a contract

PMBoK and Scrum try to be relevant to all kinds of industry and types of work - contracted or not. You shouldn't expect them to tell you how to negotiate a contract or run your business. …
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What are the main reasons Scrum doesn't admit managers?

Self-organising teams are not something unique to Scrum, but they do happen to work very successfully for software and technology teams. One argument for self-organising is that no single person (whet …
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Change management in small fixed-price projects

The answer to the first two questions can turn out to be simple or complex, but it is the same regardless of the size of project: negotiate. The evaluation as to whether something represents a change …
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How a software development contract is concluded?

There's a difference between being a software vendor and being a service provider for bespoke applications development. You seem to be describing a service-provider kind of relationship. A fixed-price …
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What contract type to use when the scope is largely defined (but NOT completely)?

There are always questions that can't be answered at the start of a project. You begin with incomplete information and learn more as you go on. This is a well-known principle called the Cone of Uncert …
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Financial indicators of a project and a project manager's efficiency

A lot depends on the commercial context, the business need being served and presumably the nature of the PM role as well. You have tagged this question with "Scrum" but in Scrum there is no project ma …
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