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Where the five disciplines meet
Most practitioners are hired into one discipline and spend a decade there. The work, though, keeps crossing lines: the requirement you wrote becomes the scope you defend, which becomes the change nobody sequenced. This lesson maps the seams.
That gap is where delivery actually fails — not in estimation, not in tooling. Work that is correct in every discipline can still arrive late and wrong, because each handoff loses context nobody was accountable for carrying.
Read the overlaps
Business analysis, project management, agile, program management, and organisational leadership each have a mature body of knowledge. None of them documents the boundary it shares with the next.
The five process groups
PMBOK names five process groups. The common error is reading them as calendar phases. They are kinds of work, and on any live project several are running at once.
Initiating
Authorise the work and name the sponsor. If you cannot say who can cancel this project, it has not been initiated — it has merely started.
Knowledge check
A project is halfway through build when the sponsor changes the success measure. Which process group does the resulting rebaselining belong to?
How each discipline reads the same event
A changed success measure means the requirements traceability is stale. The BA question is which requirements no longer trace to a live objective.
Scope, schedule, and cost baselines are now wrong together. The PM question is what the approved change control path is.
The backlog ordering assumed the old measure. The agile question is what the team stops doing at the next planning event.
Sibling projects consumed the old measure as an assumption. The program question is which dependencies just became invalid.
People built plans around the old definition of done. The leadership question is who has to be told, in what order, before they hear it informally.
- 01Name the event precisely, in one sentence, with no interpretation attached.
- 02Collect each discipline’s reading of it before proposing any action.
- 03Identify which readings conflict — those are the real decisions.
- 04Decide, record the rationale, and tell the people whose plans just changed.
We had five status reports that were each accurate and a program that was three months behind.
- You can state the event without embedding a cause.
- You have a reading from every discipline the event touches.
- You have written down which readings conflict.
- Someone has been named to decide.
Card 1 of 3
Knowledge check — select all that apply
Which of these readings genuinely conflict, rather than simply differing in focus?
Walkthrough: reconciling a live scope change
Before the next lesson
Pick a decision made in the last month that you now think was wrong. Write the event in one sentence, then write the five readings. Bring it to the cohort session.
Knowledge check
select the best answerR....?