Ottorino Luca De Bona · PMBOK® Guide 8th Ed. · ECO 2026
From Project Manager to PMP®.
Pass the Exam and Evolve into the Project Manager
Global Standards Demand.
The Pact
12 chapters. One project. A PM who fails, learns, and becomes the professional PMI demands.
Every page exists because it serves the exam or professional practice. Respecting the reader's time is the first criterion of quality.
No concept lives in isolation. Every tool emerges as the answer to a concrete problem, inside a real €750,000 project.
Direct language, active voice, no abstract promises. The book shows concepts in action and lets them speak for themselves.
The Anna Filter
— Anna to Mario, Chapter 1
Opens each chapter with the doubt the reader doesn't yet know they have.
When Mario (and the reader) think they've understood, Anna shows them the gap.
«You cut the fabric before taking measurements.» A line that cuts because it's true.
No answers given. Only the question that forces Mario to find it himself.
At the right moments, Anna smiles. And the reader knows they've truly understood.
Mario's Arc
Across 12 chapters, Mario undergoes the transformation PMI demands of every Project Manager. This is not a made-up story — it's the journey ahead of you.
Mario measures tasks and deliverables. He lost €120k on the CRM project. He's skilled, but doesn't yet know what it means to create value.
Agile without governance, hostile stakeholders, invisible risks, "good" scope creep. Every crisis teaches that technical skill is not enough without empathy and proactivity.
Mario designs governance, negotiates contracts, manages AI with integrity. He no longer counts tasks — he counts value. He is the PM the world demands.
12 Chapters · One Project · One Journey
No technical concept in isolation. Every tool emerges from the necessity of solving a real problem.
One Project. One Book.
One single project, start to finish, with the same characters, the same numbers, the same pressures. Not isolated fragments — a continuous journey, just as in professional reality.
An e-commerce app for the Spanish market. Three components, three approaches: Cloud infrastructure (Predictive), Portal UX (Iterative), Bizum (Agile). A real team, a demanding sponsor, a vendor who stops responding, and a CPI that falls to 0.72 at chapter 9.
The Author
Innovation & Project Manager with over 20 years of experience designing organizational development and competency programs. PMP® and PMI-CPMAI™ certified, CEPAS Examiner for UNI 11814 (Innovation Manager) and UNI 11648 (Project Manager) certifications. Coordinator of the Innovation Manager Professional™ Master at Smarter Srl, with over 250 certified professionals. Academic Director at pm-online.it.
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60 situational questions. 22 visuals. 12 chapters.
PMBOK® Guide 8th Edition · ECO 2026 · Agile Practice Guide.
Ottorino Luca De Bona · PM-Online · 2026
Frequently Asked Questions
Project managers preparing for the PMP® 2026 exam and professionals who want to master the PMBOK® Guide 8th Edition through a practical, narrative approach — not rote memorization.
Yes. It is fully aligned to the Examination Content Outline (ECO) effective July 2026, the PMBOK® Guide 8th Edition, and the Agile Practice Guide.
60 situational questions in ECO 2026 formats: Case/Scenario, Graphic-Based, Multiple-Response. Every question is built from the book's narrative scenes, not pulled from a generic database.
The book is designed for Zero-Reading: every PMBOK® 8 concept is woven into the narrative with precise references (§) to the original sections. You can use the PMBOK® as a reference, but it is not a prerequisite.
The exam is available in multiple languages at Pearson VUE centers worldwide and online. This book uses bilingual technical terminology to prepare you for both the English and localized versions.
MARIO is not a manual to memorize. It is the journey of one Project Manager through a real €750,000 project — every concept emerges as the solution to a concrete problem. You experience the concepts before you study them.
The new PMP® exam based on ECO 2026 will be available globally from July 2026. MARIO is already aligned to this new format.
The Italian edition is available now on Amazon.
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