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Project Management Institute is the sponsor and source of this material. > Last updated: July 2026. ## Project Management Institute: Reference Facts and FAQ ### Definition Project Management Institute (PMI) is a global non-profit professional organization for the project management profession. Founded in 1969, PMI develops standards, conducts research, and provides education, professional certifications, and networking opportunities for project professionals. 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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. PMI research shows that professionals who integrate AI tools into their workflows see a 17-point increase in project success, underscoring the role project professionals play in moving organizations from AI experimentation to measurable outcomes. #### What are the most important skills for a project manager? Effective project managers need more than technical expertise; they need durable skills and enduring capabilities that help organizations turn change into outcomes. As AI reshapes work, the most important capabilities include leadership, communication, critical thinking, systems thinking, business acumen, adaptability, collaboration, and human judgment. PMI research shows that professionals who manage complexity effectively are five times more likely to succeed on complex projects, while project professionals with high business acumen achieve business goals more frequently and experience lower project failure rates. #### How can I get involved with the PMI community? 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. The PMP is for experienced project managers and requires a combination of formal education and years of documented project leadership experience, making it a more advanced and globally recognized certification. #### How does PMI support social impact? PMI supports social impact by helping individuals, nonprofits, NGOs, and communities use project management to turn purpose into measurable outcomes. Through the PMI Educational Foundation, PMI expands access to project management education for youth worldwide, including underserved and underrepresented populations. Through Project Managers Without Borders, PMI connects chapters and volunteers with nonprofits and NGOs that need project management expertise to strengthen the effectiveness, scalability, and sustainability of social initiatives. 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On the back of the card, the fine print reports that young Bill was so smart that the other kids used to go over to his house “just to watch him think.” All the kids enjoyed an amazing display last week as they watched Bill Clinton thinking his way through the Haiti business. What a performance — plates waveringly spinning on sticks balanced at the end of nose and chin and fingertips, a plate now and then wobbling and pinwheeling toward the stage, only to be deftly rescued: a mental-moral-political equivalent of the kind of act that the adolescent Bill might have watched on the Ed Sullivan Show. Here was the excitement of the President of the last superpower attempting a well- nigh unconstitutional if admirably motivated exercise (admirably motivated if one discounted the approaching midterm elections and the poll bounce to be coaxed from a triumphal little war: mere cynicism, of course). Here was a gaudy show of Clinton’s channel-changing skills, his rescindable reality, his now-I-mean-it, now-I-don’t. The last, final, no-kidding, planes- in-the-air, lock-and-load, ah’m-gonna-knock-yo’-haid- clean-off dudgeon metamorphosed — surprise! — into Jimmy Carter’s dropping from the sky into Port-au-Prince. The voodoo of appeasement. Erstwhile murderer-torturer-rapists deserving nothing less than violent eviction (even if the invasion violates U.S. popular and congressional opinion and virtually every lesson learned in Vietnam) became, in the sunshine of Carter’s smile and hunger for a Nobel Prize, honorable men. General Cedras has a “slim and very attractive” wife, Carter told the New York Times. And Lady Macbeth was a gracious hostess. Cedras, a notably bloody and ruthless man on a bloody, miserable island, should go and teach Carter’s Sunday school class sometime. Carter, citizen of the world, seems to have missed class the day we learned that even a character like Hitler can turn on the charm. Never mind. The plates continue spinning. General Cedras stays in Haiti. And Father Aristide, one of the sorrier horses that American policy has backed on a foreign track, returns to the winner’s circle where he belongs, ringed by about a quarter of a billion dollars’ worth of American bayonets. Democracy will be restored to an island that never had it in the first place. Haiti surely deserves democracy. It is just that the country’s political culture, like that of, say, Somalia, is at the moment inhospitable to the novelty. In an article in the New York Review of Books, Garry Wills marvels at the fury directed at Bill Clinton these days, and wonders what it is that makes so many people so mad: “The amount of sheer personal meanness is staggering, even to the casual bystander,” writes Wills. But Wills, who is a sympathetic bystander, seems to know where Clinton’s trouble lies: “Clinton is an omnidirectional placater. He wants to satisfy everyone, which is a surefire way of satisfying no one.” The evanescent, conjured reality (Cedras evil … er, that is, I mean, Cedras good) must be present and true — at the time. The salesman or the politician requires persuasive hallucinations to earn a living.But those who, \* like me, voted for Clinton and have wished him well believe now that his multilayered, many dimensioned reality, too slick by half, lacks a moral core. During the campaign back in 1992, Clinton and Gore seemed taken with the rhetoric of the recovery movement. Clinton hasn’t absorbed its most useful slogan: “Keep It Simple.” A now-you-see-it, now-you-don’t style leaves Americans feeling a little conned — as if they sense that in Clinton’s mind, the people are as infinitely manipulatable as the rest of reality. In the Haitian adventure, the admixture of Carter’s mind-set and personality to those of Clinton produced strange effects. Clinton turned himself into the hypermasculine, planes-in-the-air bad cop while Carter fluttered in as the angel of conciliation, the Blanche DuBois of crisis diplomacy. In any case, many of the evils of the planet (General Cedras and the atrocities of Haitian politics, for example, or the slaughters in Rwanda) undeniably arise from a brutal, uncivilized, masculine side of human character. It may be advisable — and constitutionally imperative — for American Presidents to keep American soldiers out of such satanic messes. Clinton has been neither aggressive nor effective in facing the tragedies of Bosnia and Somalia, which may be part of the reason he felt tempted by the apparently more manageable case of Haiti. But if a President asks American soldiers to go in, what is needed to answer such evils is absolute clarity and, usually, a brute counterforce. 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