Chapter 1
Foundations of Project Management
Course: Pmp Test Prep
Subject: Pmp
Chapter: The Six Principles And The Pm Mindset 5506 10736
This lesson provides a detailed understanding of the first two of the six project management principles: Adopt a Holistic View and Focus on Value.
These two principles anchor different mindset dimensions — Holistic View belongs to the proactive dimension and Focus on Value to the value-driven dimension — but they are examined together here as the opening pair of the principle deep-dives.
The lesson highlights what each principle means, the project impact it produces, a concrete example of the principle in action, and how it connects to the performance domains.
It emphasizes the shared thread between them: both push the practitioner beyond narrow, deliverable-centric thinking — one toward seeing the whole interconnected system, the other toward the value that deliverables are meant to produce.
Each principle is presented using the standard's own structure of definition, project impact, principle in action, and connected domains.