Business acumen can feel abstract. We see it in job descriptions, but what does it actually look like? Here are seven easy ways to demonstrate business acumen every day.
After layoffs, strong project management isn’t about doing more with less. It’s about resetting expectations, creating alignment, and ensuring that every commitment has a foundation in reality. The result is a roadmap that tells the truth—and a team and organization equipped to deliver on it.
This is a Partner Voice highlight with the PMI Educational Foundation’s long-standing partner, STEM Racing. This article accompanies the on-demand webinar Building Future Project Managers: Real-World PM Skills Through STEM Racing.
Project management may be guided by universal principles, but the reality on the ground looks very different depending on where you work. Here we explore what happens when PMs move between startups and larger organizations, sharing real-life lessons, challenges, and success stories from both environments.
Organizational stiffness slows down decisions, stops creativity, and makes it harder to adapt. Learn how agile project principles, cross-functional collaboration, and rituals for continuous improvement can help teams get their flexibility back.
Think of a time when things just clicked. What specific conditions, behaviors, or decisions made it possible? How might we intentionally replicate those patterns elsewhere? ...
How a two-minute manifesto turned into a certification economy, and what it costs the teams still living inside it.Somewhere along the way, a simple idea got heavy.It started light. A few people sitti ...
IntroductionArtificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming industries, reshaping user experiences, and redefining how organizations operate. As AI-driven products become more widespread, the ethical imp ...
1.IntroductionArtificial Intelligence (AI) systems are increasingly being developed through iterative processes, leveraging cycles of prototyping, user feedback, and continuous improvement. While this ...
The PMBOK® Guide – Seventh Edition explicitly identifies **Adaptability and Resiliency** as one of the core principles . It reminds us that successful projects are not only built on good planning, but ...
Modern organizations are obsessed with outcomes.Projects are evaluated through outcomes.Strategies are evaluated through outcomes.Leaders are evaluated through outcomes.Governance systems are evaluate ...
IntroductionIn today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, organizations increasingly rely on cross-functional squads to drive innovation, deliver value, and stay competitive. These Agile teams compr ...
Many projects are approved based on a business case containing financial projections and assumptions that may no longer be valid months or years later. Yet, in my experience, once a project is authori ...
Business acumen is often framed as something that is possessed. It is described as something that you have, or you do not. Not only is this notion incomplete, but it is a dangerous one. It presents business acumen as a tangible something to be acquired, a checkbox to be attained, finite and specific.
Today’s PMs face a world of complexity, shifting priorities and constant change. Tools and methodologies are not enough. Faro—Spanish for lighthouse—is a simple yet powerful model that reminds us to lead with fortitude, adaptability, relationships and purpose.
AI can appear so lifelike, so helpful, and so available. Just make sure you are keeping emotional intelligence at the forefront and not letting the self-centeredness of AI weaken your EI skills.
How often do project managers consciously balance our own lives? Drawing from his experiences in both the private and public sectors, this practitioner explores practical ways to sustain mental health and achieve genuine work/life balance in a high-pressure project environment.
No matter how much the definition had evolved, change management was still seen as something directly related to the project. But now, that’s changing. The idea of organizational change management has been moving closer to project-style change management for a while.
This article shares practical lessons from real projects, highlighting successful strategies, critical mistakes, and actionable frameworks that project managers can apply when adopting AI in regulated environments.
As part of the development of the Manifesto for Enterprise Agility, PMI spoke with executive leaders about how organizations can build this capability in practice. Zoë Merchant, Founder and CEO of Bright, shares her perspectives on creating learning cultures, leading reinvention, and more.
Business acumen may just be the single most important discipline that a project manager needs to master today. And it can have a significant impact on a career. Here's why...
Join award-winning leaders from PMI as they discuss how project managers can drive meaningful outcomes through inclusive collaboration, stakeholder engagement, and strategic influence. Explore practical ways to build trust, encourage diverse perspectives, and expand access to the project management profession.
Learn how storytelling enables project professionals to do — and why narrative is a core project leadership skill, not a soft one.
This webinar explores the alignments and differences between product and project management. The contributions of each to delivering effective solutions is explored, and where there are overlaps and gaps. In particular, the ways that they can complement each other are explored, as well as the cautions that practitioners should keep in mind.
In this interview, Yannick Carriou, CEO of Médiamétrie, defines enterprise agility as the ability to keep adapting while staying grounded in a clear value proposition. He argues that organizations should replace long planning cycles with faster decisions made closer to the work and more frequent reassessment of priorities and value. He also says leaders must move beyond command-and-control, foster psychological safety for experimentation and mistakes, and embed learning across the organization. Ultimately, he presents enterprise agility as a practical way to navigate uncertainty by facing reality, challenging assumptions and aligning work to changing market needs.
In this interview, Sagar Kochhar discusses enterprise agility as an organization's ability to sense change early, make decisions quickly and execute at scale without losing alignment. Drawing on Rebel Foods' evolution from a single-brand restaurant business into a global internet restaurant platform, Kochhar explains that agility is not about speed alone but about combining adaptability with a clear strategic direction. Organizations must be willing to challenge their own assumptions, disrupt successful business models and continuously evolve in response to changing customer behaviors, technologies and market dynamics.
This content is from PMI. It is not PDU Bearing Path to PMP: 2026 PMP Exam Change provides aspiring PMP® certification holders with a practical, forward‑looking overview of the updated PMP exam launching on July 9, 2026. This session breaks down why the exam is changing, what’s new in the updated content outline, and how candidates should adapt their study plans to stay on track. Attendees will walk away with clarity on what to expect next and how to prepare with confidence for the next generation of the PMP exam.
In today’s complex project environments, professionals must deliver results while managing competing priorities, stakeholder pressure, and limited authority. Yet many struggle to push back effectively without damaging relationships or credibility.
Attendees will learn the key dimensions of complexity and which practices drive strong outcomes. We will highlight examples that all project professionals can apply to their own roles.
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