The Indian Infrastructure Body of Knowledge InBoK is a unique comprehensive guidebook for implementation of programs and execution of constituent projects. This encompasses best practices of program management and project managements and retains the essential connect between programs and projects. Program success depends on successful execution of constituent projects and more importantly on their interface and integration for assuring overall program outcomes. This linkage is established in the InBoK in every chapter

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India Infrastructure Body Of Knowledge
(InBok)
Idea Strategy Program Project
Source - https://niti.gov.in/sites/default/files/2020-11/The-Indian-Infrastructure-Body-of-Knowledge-Rev-C.pdf

2. Background
• InBoK is a unique comprehensive guidebook for implementation of
programs and execution of constituent projects.
• This encompasses best practices of program management and project
managements and retains the essential connect between programs and
projects.
• Program success depends on successful execution of constituent projects
and more importantly on their interface and integration for assuring
overall program outcomes. This linkage is established in the InBoK in every
chapter

3. What is InBok
The India Infrastructure Body Of Knowledge is the Technical Baseline to the
Practice of Program & Project Management In India
This was needed in India to meet the growing demand for structured program /project
management practices, to manage these programs and implement them successfully
This was intitiative of NITI Aayog who constituted the Task Force on Program & Project
Management.
The Task Force entrusted the Quality Council of India, in collaboration of the Technical
Committee to develop the framework and technical baseline for program/project
management in India, as well as set up a nodal body for certification of
program/project management professionals.

4. The Ultimate Indian Standard
• The purpose of InBoK is to provide guidance on concepts and processes of
program and project management that are important for and have impact on
the performance of projects and the outcomes of programs.
• It shall be a guide for program/project professionals, the trainers,
program/project management institutes and program/project management
industry as the ultimate Indian Standard for the profession and its practice.
• It encompasses all the phases of a program/project and acts as a guide every
step of the way. It comprises seven distinct parts, distributed over 21 sections
altogether to encapsulate every phase and component for the program
implementation and project execution.

5. Comments of Amitabh Kant, CEO, NITI Aayog
• ‘The Task Force also recognised that India will need more than 70 lakh skilled program and
project managers. in the next 10 years, and InBoK shall be the base for their
development’.
• ‘The Indian Infrastructure Body of Knowledge sets the baseline to operationalize this
grand vision, it contextualises the program/project management practice for India and
incorporates the best practices from across the globe for professionals in India to study,
refer and practice’
• ‘Whereas Program Management is strategic in nature, project management is tactical.
Program management focuses on the achievement of the intended strategic economic
objectives through the coordination of multiple projects, while project management, in
contrast, focuses on the tactics of planning and execution of the work output.’

6. Comments of Adil Zainulbhai Chairman, Quality Council of India
• ‘NITI Aayog's Task Force on Program & Project Management recognized
the urgent need for standardizing Program/Project Management in India
and introducing a common language of Program/Project Management
across the government and industry’
• ‘The Indian Infrastructure Body of Knowledge (InBoK) is a crucial pillar to
bring the vision of mainstreaming program/project management practices
in the infrastructure sector in India to life, and we have the dedicated
efforts of each member’

7. Comments of VTCS Rao Dean, L&T Institute of Project Management
‘This Edition is the actualization of the vision to create an Indian Standard in
the practice of program/project management, with the thrust on the
infrastructure sector and envisioned around the Baseline-Approach to
program and project delivery. It encompasses all the phases of a programs
and projects, acts as a guide every step of implementation, and encapsulates
the required knowledge to manage each phase’

8. Target Readership for InBok
• The purpose of InBoK is to provide guidance on concepts and processes of program and
project management that are important for and have impact on the performance of
projects and the outcomes of programs
• Senior managers and project sponsors, in order to provide them with a better
understanding of the principles and practice of project management and to help them
give appropriate support and guidance to their project managers, project management
teams and project teams;
• Project managers, project management teams and project team members, so that they
have a common basis upon which to compare their project standards and practices with
those of others;
• Professionals who are involved in execution of Infrastructure Projects across the
country.

9. Target Readership for InBok
• The intent of InBoK is not to handhold project professionals on basics of project
management. It is designed to provide guidance on those elements that make
significant contribution to effective program delivery
• InBoK has 21 sections under six distinct parts that cover a program life cycle. The
tone of the InBoK is suggestive in some cases and prescriptive in some sections
which are new to the traditional project management.

10. Certification
• Certification examinations will be based on both InBoK and the key
supplementary references. “Implementation Checklist” is a good tool to
ensure that a program or project is following the guidelines while
implementing/executing. These checklists can be used in Program /Project
Management

11. With this initiative of NITI Aayog & QCI India finally we march towards adoption of a
common Program & Project Management Vocabulary for India. Corporate will no
more waste huge sum of money on getting their professionals trained on Foreign or
Indian home made training and certification programs.
Confusion created in market about Competence v/s Life Cycle Based approach to
Project Management is thing of past. Now corporate will hire agencies for getting
their own training kits developed around InBok or higher experts who base their
trainings only around InBok if their programs and projects are based out of India
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