PMI Announces Acquisition of Disciplined Agile

I hear your point Wade but PMI as a project management organization should not be bias towards a certain industry and if they are over represented in an industry, it is the IT Industry and I find that they are under represented in others like Healthcare and Construction.

I'd be interested to know what kind of data PMI has on this. It may not be as simple as it sounds, though. IT spans almost every industry, for example, and PMs can be tasked across a wide variety of projects, so a healthcare PM could potentially support an IT project.

I thought I'd be able to find something from PMI, but I haven't found it yet. The closest thing I can find is this "Project Manager of the Future" from 2018 (link below). On page 11, it shows that more PMs are practicing "lean agile" (I hate that term) and Scrum than "waterfall" (I hate that term, too). Kanban is a close 4th, after waterfall. Perhaps this sheds some light on why PMI is investing so much in Agile.

https://www.pmi.org/-/media/pmi/documents/...sc_lang_temp=en


Certainly PMI needs to expand and adapt, but my fear for PMI, as I've often stated, is that they'll focus so much on what others (agilists) are already doing that they'll lose focus of the things PMI has done very well (predictive life cycles).

In fairness to PMI, I guess we could also argue that Agilists are even more narrowly focused on IT. We know Agile was not born from software development, and we're consistently told that it's not just for software. Yet Agile advocates often insist that practitioners have a software development background, and advanced certifications focus heavily on software-specific practices. So it's not just PMI.