How PMI is Expanding Value for Stakeholders

By: Michael DePrisco , Interim President & CEO | PMI

Serving Those Who?Make Reality

PMI has long been best known to many for the?PMP? certification ,?which remains a valuable differentiator for project professionals around the globe.

PMI is the leader in project management and aims to empower people to make ideas a reality. Our strategy addresses the needs of our existing project management community and welcomes a new audience of global changemakers—a huge cohort of individuals around the globe who wake up each day to figure out how to drive sustained change in their organizations and communities for businesses, people and society overall.

We also know that today’s project professionals and changemakers face an increasing number of complex problems that require new skills, capabilities and experiences to solve. And we are committed to continually refreshing our portfolio of offerings to serve these needs.

As work is increasingly delivered through projects, more individuals will need to upskill and dive deeper into effective implementation. There’s a clear need that has gone unmet for too long—a single one-stop place for individuals to access resources that enable them to make change happen. Whether we call our vehicle for change a project, product or value stream, it nonetheless requires people skilled at not simply having great ideas, but delivering great results.

Evolving Our Portfolio to Enable Deeper Impact

In order to serve the diverse needs of project professionals and changemakers, we have expanded the offerings in our portfolio to meet stakeholders where they are, regardless of experience or industry, and help them gain the skills they need to create positive impact.

These newer offerings?act as doorways to improvement—essentially ways that individuals can turn ideas into reality:

• Kickoff :?A free 45-minute online course and toolkit that covers basic project techniques and tools professionals can use to drive change forward using either agile or traditional approaches.
• Navigator :?A free tool to help professionals determine the next step in their career development, including opportunities for a comprehensive self-assessment of skills, interests and goals, while offering action plans to achieve objectives.
• Disciplined Agile Certification Suite :?A range of agile certifications designed to help professionals learn?when and how to use different agile practices, with an emphasis on tailoring to the unique needs of a team or entire organization.
• PMI Citizen Developer? :?The first of its kind, platform-agnostic suite of learning tools and resources for professionals and organizations seeking to implement and scale citizen development initiatives, which utilize no-code/low-code platforms as an agile but secure way of developing apps.
• Wicked Problem Solving :?An online, interactive design-thinking toolkit, created in partnership with a leading industry expert that helps changemakers collaborate and define both problems and solutions as a group.
• Organizational Transformation Series :?A series of online courses and micro-credentials dedicated to helping professionals learn how to drive and lead successful business transformations of various sizes.
• PMIstandards+? :?A digital solution for instant access to PMI standards and practice guides, as well as how-to content and more—all tailored to industry, approach?and goals.
• PMI Project Management Ready? :?An early-entry project management certification available to those who do not yet have a high school diploma and/or may not have the experience and education required for our entry-level professional certification, the Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM)? exam.

Benefits of Broadened Portfolio

Let’s break down some of the unique benefits of our offerings that can help supercharge a career.

• Deliver Greater Value?– Today’s professionals need a variety of tools in their tool belts depending on their unique context and environment. Our offerings enable professionals to tackle and overcome challenges with a multitude of approaches. Whether someone needs to increase their fluency in agile or step up their business acumen, they can find an offering tailored to their needs, allowing for opportunities to deliver greater value to their business.
• Customized and Personalized?– We believe that project skills are essential throughout life. We serve individuals at every stage of their careers, from students and newly minted professionals learning the ropes of effectively managing projects, all the way to seasoned veterans seeking to better understand emerging technologies and ways of solving problems. Our offerings are customized and personalized to the individual and what they need at the moment they need it.
• Ready for Anything?– COVID-19 proved that professionals need to be prepared to expect the unexpected and tackle unprecedented challenges. Ultimately our expanding portfolio is focused on ensuring that PMI is the place where anyone can find guidance, tools, knowledge and perspective on how to address their next big challenge, whether it’s building a hospital in record time, converting a large-scale event to a virtual experience or launching a new product.

Stay tuned on new ways that PMI will empower both project professionals and changemakers to turn all their biggest and boldest ideas into reality.

This article was originally published on the Official PMI Blog .