DOMAIN 5
PMBOK 7 Performance Domain · Deep Dive
Project Work
The engine room: establish efficient, right-sized processes, balance competing constraints, keep the team focused & productive, manage resources, procurement & communications, handle new work & changes, and learn continuously.
Visual Map — Running the Work
Establish processes
right-size & tailor▸ Balance constraints
trade-offs▸ Manage resources & procurement▸ Monitor work & changes▸ Learn & improve↺
right-size & tailor▸ Balance constraints
trade-offs▸ Manage resources & procurement▸ Monitor work & changes▸ Learn & improve↺
The competing constraints:
ScopeScheduleCostQualityResourcesRiskBenefits
This domain executes what Planning set up and feeds Delivery & Measurement. Push one constraint and others move — manage the trade-offs.
Key Activities
- Processes: establish, tailor, lean, continuously improve (retrospectives / kaizen).
- Team focus: sustainable pace, remove impediments, manage workload.
- Physical resources: logistics, materials, just-in-time, reduce waste.
- Procurement: administer contracts, evaluate & manage sellers.
- Change: handle emergent work via integrated change control.
Learning Throughout
- Capture lessons learned continuously — not just at closure.
- Tacit (in people's heads) vs explicit (documented) knowledge.
- Share via communities of practice, demos & reviews.
- Treat knowledge as a reusable organisational asset.
Exam Concepts
- Competing constraints are traded off, not all maximised.
- Integrated change control for new/emergent work.
- Tacit vs explicit knowledge.
- Keep the team's pace sustainable.
Executive View
- Operational efficiency & flow.
- Remove blockers for teams.
- Govern change; capture knowledge as an asset.
Industry Example
Manufacturing
- Lean line: standardised processes, JIT materials, kaizen improvements, and visual management to keep flow steady and waste low.
Interactions & Checking Results
- Executes Planning; supplies Delivery; reports to Measurement.
- Good signs: efficient processes, balanced constraints, productive team, controlled change, captured learning.
Memory Hooks
- "Run the engine: process · balance · supply · change · learn."
- The competing constraints all push against each other.
- Tacit in heads · explicit on paper.
60-sec ReviewList the competing constraintsIntegrated change controlTacit vs explicitSustainable paceContinuous learning
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