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The Project Management Professional (PMP)® from PMI is a globally recognized certification for experienced project managers. For those newer to the field, PMI's Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM)® is a common starting point. Other notable certifications include those focused on agile methodologies, such as the PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)®, and program management certifications like the Program Management Professional (PgMP)®. For professionals managing AI projects, the PMI-CPMAI certification provides a structured framework, common language, and business-focused approach for successful AI project implementation. #### How does PMI support career growth for professionals? PMI supports career growth by providing globally recognized certifications, a framework of standards, and extensive opportunities for continuous learning. Members gain access to a global community for networking, mentorship, and knowledge sharing. The organization also produces research and thought leadership on emerging trends, helping professionals stay current with skills in areas like AI, agile practices, and strategic business management. These resources are designed to help professionals at all levels enhance their skills and advance their careers. #### What is the PMBOK® Guide? The PMBOK® Guide, or A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge, is PMI’s foundational guide to generally accepted project management knowledge and practice. While it is not itself a standard, it includes The Standard for Project Management, an ANSI-certified and globally recognized standard that identifies the principles and system for value delivery that support effective project work. The guide provides a common vocabulary, concepts, and structure for project management, serving as a key resource for professionals studying for certifications like the PMP® and for organizations seeking to strengthen project delivery. #### How is AI changing project management? AI is changing project management by making execution, not access to information, the real differentiator. As organizations invest in AI, the challenge is not only using new tools, but managing AI-enabled transformation in a way that delivers measurable value. Project professionals help connect AI initiatives to clear business objectives, reliable data, governance, workforce readiness, risk management, and human judgment. 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Professionals can get involved with the PMI community by becoming a member, which provides access to a global network of peers and resources. Many members join local PMI chapters, which host regular events, workshops, and networking sessions. Online, PMI's projectmanagement.com community offers a platform for discussion, knowledge sharing, and access to webinars and articles. Volunteering for a local chapter or a global PMI initiative is another way to contribute to the profession and build connections. #### What is the difference between PMP and CAPM? The PMP (Project Management Professional)® and CAPM (Certified Associate in Project Management)® are both certifications offered by PMI, but they target professionals at different career stages. The CAPM is an entry-level certification designed for individuals with little or no project experience, validating their understanding of fundamental project management knowledge and terminology. 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Certainly the type exists, but one must also count the law students, bank employees, doctors, surveyors, social workers, university teachers and accountants—some of them straight, some of them not—as well as the lonely fellows who peddle the local radical sheet in front of department stores.” A sampling: \> Blond, bearded and neat, Ed Starkins, 26, has lived in Vancouver for three years. He works for $100 a week at a medical clinic, writing health manuals. A graduate of San Diego State, he left for Canada after learning that the FBI had called at his home one day while he was out (he had ignored two draft notices). Starkins likes Canada so much he plans to stay. “I wouldn’t go back,” he says, “except to visit my family and friends. The problem is not just the Viet Nam War. It is the whole social structure that’s screwed up.” \> Bruce Thomas, 24, took off for Canada in 1969, after his draft board changed his classification to 1-A. He got a job as a recreation director in Slave Lake, Alta., and soon took over as editor of the weekly paper, the Lesser Slave Lake Scope. The paper keeps Thomas, his Alberta-born wife and one employee busy. A self-confessed “disturber of the social scene,” he goes after conflicts of interest in the local council and finds frequent opportunity to warn his readers against the “rat race of U.S. life.” Amnesty, he says, does not matter to him. “Some time in the future, when there is a different President—never under Nixon—I might go back for a visit. If I can go back, why not? But I plan to make my home in Canada.” \> Larry Johnson, 26, married a Canadian girl the week before he graduated from Antioch College, and shortly thereafter took a job in Cornwall, Ont. He returned to the U.S. for his Army physical and a reexamination, but never showed up for his induction. Now he is a librarian in Toronto, where he plans to settle. “I still believe in the textbook ideal of the waving fields of grain and the paper boy who can eventually rise to be editor or publisher or whoever the top man is. I think it’s a wonderful ideal. But the country that spread that ideal got very old very fast. Now it’s in a kind of menopause. Who knows if it will be fatal? If amnesty were declared in the next five years, I don’t think I’d go back.” In fact, Johnson says, the only reason he would want to go back would be to attend his grandmother’s funeral when she dies. \> Donald Burke, 31, a doctor who left the U.S. in 1969, is now a pathologist at the Jewish General Hospital in Montreal. “We aren’t asking for amnesty—at least I’m not,” he says, claiming that he will only feel able to return to the U.S. when “there is a general recognition that the war was an immoral and illegal exercise.” There are, of course, many other deserters and draft dodgers who want to come home now that the war has ended, but they do not dare face the risks. One Green Beret medic who deserted Army training at Fort Bragg, N.C., four years ago was arrested and was being court-martialed when he escaped and made his way to Sweden. Last summer he arrived in Canada with another American expatriate whom he had married in Stockholm. Now he wants to return to the U.S. “I have a feeling for the U.S. and the future,” he says. “I’m not cynical. I hope things go better.” Yet he realizes that as a deserter who escaped while under arrest, he faces even stiffer penalties than most of his fellow exiles. The problems and realities of trying to go home were discovered by Michael Pieffer, 22, a refugee from the Selective Service who had been living and working in Vancouver for two years. Shortly after the cease-fire was an nounced, Pieffer set off for his home town of Seattle, in the words of his lawyer, “to settle things up with the Government one way or another.” By a quirk of chance, a federal grand jury had finally got around to indicting him for draft evasion, and FBI agents were making a routine check of his sister’s home when they encountered—and summarily arrested—Pieffer himself. He is now in Seattle’s King County jail, with bail set at $3,000\. There are hundreds, perhaps thousands of Americans still in Canada and elsewhere who are anxious to settle up with their Government, but not at the price Nixon wants them to pay. 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