Certification of Project Managers
Project Management Institute (PMI)
Project Management Institute is a nonprofit professional organization. It is the largest association dedicated to the project management in the world. PMI was founded in 1969 and it has over half million members and credential holders in 185 countries. The President and CEO of the Project Management Institute is Mark A. Langley. (Project Management Institute Website 2011.)
PMI provide many kinds of services to the Project Management profession, e.g. the development of standards, teaching, publication, networking-occasions in local divisions, study, hosting conferences and training seminars and preserving various credentials in project management. (Project Management Institute Website 2011.)
PMI world-recognized credentials and universal standards have helped establish the Institute as the leading authority in project management, helping it grown into the worldwide organization it is today. During last 25 years, PMI has contributed project management forms and produced standards that are internationally well known. PMI is the single one project management organization improving standards for people, programs, projects, portfolios and organizations. (Standards Portal 2011.)
Learn more about PMI go to: www.pmi.org
In 2009 Project Management Institute celebrated their 40 years long journey. PMI published video, where the five founders of PMI discuss how PMI was founded and where the Institute has come since then. You can watch this interesting video here: Meet the PMI Founders (Source: www.pmi.org/AboutUs/Pages/Founders)
Sources:
Project Management Institute (2011). About Us. Available from Internet : < http://www.pmi .org/About-Us.aspx>.
Standards Portal (2011). Project Management Institute, Organizational Overview. Available from Internet : <http://www.standardsportal.org/usa.en/sdo/pmi.aspx>.
Project Management Institute is a nonprofit professional organization. It is the largest association dedicated to the project management in the world. PMI was founded in 1969 and it has over half million members and credential holders in 185 countries. The President and CEO of the Project Management Institute is Mark A. Langley. (Project Management Institute Website 2011.)
PMI provide many kinds of services to the Project Management profession, e.g. the development of standards, teaching, publication, networking-occasions in local divisions, study, hosting conferences and training seminars and preserving various credentials in project management. (Project Management Institute Website 2011.)
PMI world-recognized credentials and universal standards have helped establish the Institute as the leading authority in project management, helping it grown into the worldwide organization it is today. During last 25 years, PMI has contributed project management forms and produced standards that are internationally well known. PMI is the single one project management organization improving standards for people, programs, projects, portfolios and organizations. (Standards Portal 2011.)
Learn more about PMI go to: www.pmi.org
In 2009 Project Management Institute celebrated their 40 years long journey. PMI published video, where the five founders of PMI discuss how PMI was founded and where the Institute has come since then. You can watch this interesting video here: Meet the PMI Founders (Source: www.pmi.org/AboutUs/Pages/Founders)
Sources:
Project Management Institute (2011). About Us. Available from Internet : < http://www.pmi .org/About-Us.aspx>.
Standards Portal (2011). Project Management Institute, Organizational Overview. Available from Internet : <http://www.standardsportal.org/usa.en/sdo/pmi.aspx>.
