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PMI Are some more equal than others?

The Lazy Project Manager

So what is my concern and why am I mentioning PMI? Well I’m not just focusing on PMI but the behaviour I am concerned about seems to be rather more prevalent within PMI and PMI Congresses than others. PMI’s global membership currently exceeds 500,000, impressive of course. Let me explain.

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The PMO Series (3): The Different Project Management Office Types

Inloox

A PMO has various functions and purposes: It’s responsible for establishing and maintaining standardized processes, methods and policies in the organization and to make sure that projects align with the organizational business strategy. A lot of large enterprises will even have several PMOs with varying responsibilities in the organization.

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Simply the Best

The Lazy Project Manager

For example this is how the PMI Congress system works – you submit an outline presentation and, if they like the sound of it (and you) PMI request a full paper and presentation etc. Many events use such a mechanism. Now I absolutely freely admit that it was not a ‘paper’ in the official sense of the word. It was, in fact.

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Complete Collection of Project Management Statistics 2015

Wrike

Number of PMI Certified Project Managers: Total Number of PMP credential holders: 607,128. # PMI Agile Certified Practitioner holders: 5,265. [14]. Between 2010 and 2020, 15.7 Business services (2 million jobs) and Manufacturing (630,000 jobs) supported the greatest number of project management roles in 2010. trillion. [11].

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Webinar Recap: How Innovation & Portfolio Management Office Underpins Corporate Success

MPUG

Today’s session is eligible for 3/4 of a PMI PDU in the strategic category, and the code to claim that is on the screen now. During the 2010, 2013, and all of those other fun launches as we’ve gone through and continued to advance Microsoft Project, Project Online, and all of the good Project for the web stuff.

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Webinar Recap: Microsoft Project Do’s, Don’ts, and Cool Customizations

MPUG

PMI PDUs in the technical category and the MPUG activity code for claiming the session was on the screen now. This is project 2016 I’m using for this demonstration, and I think that this will go all the way back to like project 2010 or even earlier than that. PMI PDUs in this technical category. Here we go.

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Webinar Recap: Understanding Dependencies, Leads, and Lags with MS Project

MPUG

Today’s session is eligible for one PMI PDU in the Technical category, and the MPUG Activity Code for claiming is on the screen now. As early as 2009, 2010, nearly 11 years before I was working as a PMO. Today’s session eligible for one Technical PMI PDU. My name is Kyle, and I’ll be the moderator today.