Project Management Institute reviews

Re-alignments, re-organizations, and all of this is not really helping PMI out at all. Lots of hiring and firing going on in IT. Membership on the decline. Lip service being paid to agile even though it's the future (and the present from what I can tell). Having the market research department being part of the marketing department means that market research, which should be objective, will always have a bias. Also, talent development and advancement used to be a priority; not so much anymore.

It's not a very big place and people tend to stay, which is not a bad thing, but it does mean that there is little room to move up in IT. Few people change positions or advance. Overall, PMI is hampered by poor project management, scheduling, and communication between groups. Decisions are made by a small number of people who often seem to be ill-informed about the projects they control. For a fairly small place, the decision making process is often quite opaque. From an IT perspective, management has consistently demonstrated little interest in paying for a functional software development environment, so fundamental problems linger for years. There is a strong institutional predisposition to buy solutions rather than build, so much of development involves integrating vendor solutions that were never designed to work together.