Project Management Institute reviews

Even though we've got momentum going, it's clear for many of us that much more needs to change. The basics, especially our products, have been overlooked for years by the previous leaders. Now, with all the changes happening, there's a lot of resistance. Many managers aren't too keen on shifting from their comfort zones. To give them some credit, many are confused about what we want from them, mostly because their own bosses aren't on board with the change or are just too worn out. But on the bright side, there's a new generation of employees and managers who get where we're trying to go and are eager for the change. It's very important for the senior leadership to give this group the permission and clear guidance so we can make the vision happen and take PMI where the profession needs it to be.

Like the dodo, PMI has no natural predators. Add to this reliance on a single food source (cough... the PMP), a trusting -- some might say naive -- view of the environment, and dependence on others (another cough... volunteers) to gather that food for you, and you have all the makings of a Darwinian nightmare. Thus PMI. Very much like that ill-fated bird it has evolved in ways no sensible organism, with even passing regard for its own survival, would contemplate. For years it allowed itself to become a feeding ground for an army of expensive consultants (but I repeat myself), providing valuable practice for their new hires, a soft place to lie down for their close-to-retirement types, and a dumping ground for solutions that were siloed and obsolete before they were deployed. Leadership responded to this hemorrhage of money, and the resulting devolution of an already rickety infrastructure, by deciding they would overlay this Jenga tower with more products nobody wanted or understood and worry about "stabilization" some other time. Enter the new CEO, whose chief preoccupations appear to be photo-ops in exotic locales, lighter-than-air kumbaya pronouncements, and advocacy of any side-hustle that will keep him away from the actual hard work of rebuilding the core business. I am confident he will get it all sorted. To the HR bot poised to respond. I am sitting on a barrel of ink. Choose wisely.