PMI Culture Values ​​& Behaviors

Good morning Luis -

Could you provide a link to this document as I took a quick look at PMI's website and couldn't locate it?

Kiron

Luis

my observation is that the actual strategic plan (2021) does not include values, the previous one did (and I think you refer to that), different from those in the new document. So it complements the strategy and may be / should be more stable over time than a strategy.

The new values are called cultural values, I assume meant for the PMI community of staff and volunteers.

Before, the strategy included 5 organizational values, e.g. volunteerism which is now missing. Which concerns me a lot.
How much different is culture from organization?

There also still are the ethical values as set in the code of ethics, and applicable to the behaviors of individuals - members, volunteers and certificate holders. Not staff. Not organisations.

As we humans are members of many communities with many standards of behaviors, we are used to observe different values. So I do not see a practical problem with having ethical and community values.

NB communities define themselves by joint believes (see churches, nations, agilistas, PMI), which they sometimes call values. OK. But 'values' can be seen as different to beliefs as they can span communities, and be human values, observed since 1000's of years (e.g. respect, fairness, honesty).

Luis

my observation is that the actual strategic plan (2021) does not include values, the previous one did (and I think you refer to that), different from those in the new document. So it complements the strategy and may be / should be more stable over time than a strategy.

The new values are called cultural values, I assume meant for the PMI community of staff and volunteers.

Before, the strategy included 5 organizational values, e.g. volunteerism which is now missing. Which concerns me a lot.
How much different is culture from organization?

There also still are the ethical values as set in the code of ethics, and applicable to the behaviors of individuals - members, volunteers and certificate holders. Not staff. Not organisations.

As we humans are members of many communities with many standards of behaviors, we are used to observe different values. So I do not see a practical problem with having ethical and community values.

NB communities define themselves by joint believes (see churches, nations, agilistas, PMI), which they sometimes call values. OK. But 'values' can be seen as different to beliefs as they can span communities, and be human values, observed since 1000's of years (e.g. respect, fairness, honesty).

I think it's fine, Luis. Sometimes, we need to find new ways to connect with our audience. The list you provided in your reply to Thomas can all be found in the new document, just stated in different ways.

Luis -

These culture values are what we in North America would term "apple pie and motherhood". They could apply equally well to a company in any industry if you just replaced PMI community with user community.

It is a little unfortunate that there is no specific reference to project management or helping to increase or elevate organizational project management capability or results.

Kiron