Sources & Citations
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The whole brand rests on one rule: what we claim, we can point to. The PM Vault instruments align to recognised standards and published methods, cited here by name and edition. We cite them as authority. We do not reproduce them, and we do not claim their endorsement.
Standards & methods
Each instrument states, in its own Sources view, exactly which of these it uses. This is the line-wide list.
| Standard / method | Edition cited | Where it is used |
|---|---|---|
| PMBOK® Guide | 8th Edition · 2025 | Governance performance domains; the framing for predictive control. |
| ISO 21502 | 2020 | Project, programme and portfolio management vocabulary and practice. |
| PRINCE2® | 7 · 2023 | Management-stage and stage-boundary governance concepts (PeopleCert / AXELOS). |
| ANSI/EIA-748-E | Feb 2026 | Earned Value Management system guidelines (CV, SV, CPI, SPI, EAC, TCPI). |
| Earned Schedule | Lipke · 2003 | Time-based schedule performance: ES, AT, SPI(t). |
| DCMA 14-Point | assessment method | Schedule-quality checks. BEI / CPLI are labelled approximate in-product. |
| Scrum Guide | 2020 · CC BY-SA 4.0 | Flow and delivery framing; cited, never embedded. |
| Reference-class forecasting | Flyvbjerg; Kahneman & Tversky | Outside-view calibration of forecasts. |
| Beta-PERT (three-point) | Malcolm et al. · 1959 | Duration and cost distributions for Monte Carlo. |
Industry statistics we cite
Where the site quotes a number about the state of project delivery, here is the source and the year. Nothing is rounded for effect.
| 13% of projects fail outright | PMI, Pulse of the Profession · 2025 | |
| 52% of projects experience scope creep | PMI · 2018 | |
| 45% average cost overrun on large IT programs | McKinsey & University of Oxford · 2012 | |
Open-source components
The instruments are single files that bundle everything they need. The third-party code inside them, and its licence:
Apache ECharts · Apache-2.0
Sora · Inter · JetBrains Mono · IBM Plex Mono · SIL OFL 1.1
WebCrypto AES-GCM / PBKDF2 · browser-native
ECDSA P-256 licence signatures · browser-native
What "aligned" means. PM Vault is an independent publisher and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or certified by the Project Management Institute (PMI), AXELOS/PeopleCert, Scrum.org, SAE, or ISO. PMBOK®, PMP®, and PMI® are registered marks of the Project Management Institute, Inc. PRINCE2® is a registered trademark of PeopleCert. We align our methods to these standards and cite them as authority; we reproduce none of them.