Revisión de la guía metodológica PMBOK como herramienta de éxito en la gerencia de proyectos.

Abstract

The projects are a fundamental part in organizational development and its proper application depends on the growth of the company and its positioning. Because of its importance is vital to generate knowledge from successful processes in execution, so the PMBOK, as a guide that compiles best practices in project management and although they do not guarantee its success, if gives guidelines created to understand the goals they want to attain. In this sense, the next job grade, which generally seeks to examine the main aspects, such methodological guide in order to facilitate understanding arises. This academic paper is a literature review on concerted through the years, around the end of project definitions, historical evolution in project management techniques and analyze general methodological aspects that constitute the PMBOK guide. The theoretical development made it possible to establish objective arguments, which will contribute to the understanding of project management, from the perspective of PMI and thereby establish the advantages and representative disadvantages of the methodological guide in its application to any type of projects of interest; in order to expand the vision of the specialty area that frames the concepts discussed.