The Glitch Code: Ethics, Decisions & Longevity as a Project Manager

Mishirika Scott is the Director, IT PMO at UCLA Anderson School of Management, ad former Project Manager of Student Success Systems at California State University, Los Angeles (Cal State LA). She is the managing partner of Riche Professionals, LLC (a jr. project manager training company) and she values robust engagement with emerging professionals.

  Ethics  

This is a time for reflection on our humble beginnings, not a time for new starts. What guided you to choose a career in project management? Was it an encouraging parent? A teacher who insisted that the sky is the limit? A supportive friend? A selfless act to put a spouse through nursing school?

Your motivators have put you in the driver’s seat of building your professional brand and legacy. October 2024 marked the 18^th anniversary of the PMI Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct (intimately known as “The Code”). It is the global benchmark for appropriate behaviors and actions of all PMI members, volunteers, certification holders, and certification applicants. As the business landscape evolves, with globalization and rising interest in project management, it’s prime time to revisit ethics in the workplace.

As a project practitioner myself, the aim of this article is to teach new project managers the practice of ethics in the workplace because I’m convinced that if we have real ethics, we will show it by behaving like global leaders, especially when we find ourselves facing difficult situations that compromise our integrity or values. We are human, so we all stumble in different ways.

The good news is that our commitment to leadership excellence in the workplace means we have permission to lift each other up and dust off one another&rsquo…

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