2 of the knowledge areas are renamed:

PMBOK 6 Processes

In the 6th edition of PMBOK, three new processes will be added and one will be removed:

Manage Project Knowledge (new process) - added under the executing process group Implement Risk Response (new process) - added under the executing process group Control Resources (new process) - added under monitoring and controlling process group Close Procurements (removed from 6th edition) - removed from close project phase

So there are 49 processes in PMBOK 6 (47 PMBOK 5 processes + 3 new processes - 1 process).

PMBOK guide 6th edition will gear towards more suggestive wording instead of mandatory wording. Thus, 9 processes have been renamed as follows: