It was intended to provide generic guidance, explain core principles and what constitutes good practice in project management.
[4] Research has demonstrated that organizational effectiveness is a direct function of the decision-making criteria and goal-centered activities embedded in processes[5] and implicitly, a process-based approach to project management.
[7] The standard as developed by the ISO was modeled on the Project Management Institute's Body of Knowledge (PMBoK), although there are some key differences.
[8] The ISO project management standard is only 47 pages long and is limited to the introduction of the processes, their inputs, and their outputs.
[9] Similarly, for the PMBoK, the major development in this coordinated approach was the requirement that a knowledge area always starts with the associated management plan.