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2. Foundation – The PMBOK® 8th Edition Framework

The PMBOK® Guide and the ECO are deliberately different documents — this phase gives you the PMBOK® 8 vocabulary (principles, performance domains, focus areas) that the ECO's tasks and enablers in Phases 3-5 assume you already understand.

Alvin Varughese
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