Chapter 1
Foundations of Project Management
Course: Pmp Test Prep
Subject: Pmp
Chapter: Life Cycles Development Approaches And Focus Areas 5506 10738
Having met the five focus areas one by one, the final step is to see them working together — not as a checklist marched through in order, but as interacting categories of action that overlap, iterate, and flex with the development approach.
This lesson pulls the focus areas together as an integrated whole, then makes the pivotal connection that bridges the two halves of the standard: how the five focus areas map onto the seven performance domains through the 40 processes. That mapping is the hinge between the Standard for Project Management (mindset, principles, life cycles, focus areas) and the PMBOK Guide (domains, processes, tools) — and understanding it is what lets a project manager see the whole system at once.
Key Objectives:
- Understand the focus areas as independent of application area, industry, and development approach.
- Recognize how focus areas overlap and iterate differently in predictive versus adaptive work.
- Understand the 40 processes as the mechanics that connect focus areas to performance domains.
- Read the focus-area-to-domain mapping and what it reveals about where work concentrates.
- See how the mapping bridges the Standard and the PMBOK Guide.