Have Project Management activities been affected by the situation in Venezuela?

Absolutley YES! for instance, hundred of technical experts have emigrated from this country, it impacting on quality of talent that the enterprises find in order to implement projects.
It is not feasible to planning in middle and long term, due to lack of formal statistics and economic uncertainty.
Due to high inflation, the project costs are huge, then organizations conduct less projects.
There are a lot of risks for PMOs

George, good question, difficult question, not easy to answer in few lines. Venezuela has become a hard place to perform Project Management.

Finance. Customers do not have dollars to pay services or products. You have to make offers in Bolivares or a combination (Bs/$). If you don't get dollars, how could you buy machines? or get an agreement with a vendor from other country? You can't pay them in Bolivares.

Human Resources. One of the most impacted areas. Young people is leaving; it is very hard to find professionals to hire. It's been normal to hear that some coworker or customer's employee has gone to another country.

Providers. Working with providers is very, very hard.It's been very difficult to find materials; if you are lucky and find them, providers give you few days to buy them.

Risks. The area that produce more work!!! Every day we have to work thinking on risks. Identifying, controlling, etc, is in our daily schedule.

Costs. It not easy to plan a project. How could you define a cost baseline for a project with an inflation like the one we have been having last two or three years. That's impossible.

Time. The triple constraint is impacted every day. Maintaining the schedule is affected by almost allof the other components.

Changes. Managing changes is impossible!!! Customers get a budget for the project and it's very hard to work based on that.

For all of this points is that we have to work, more than ever, based on a methodology that help you to keep your work on track.

As I said.... very few lines to discuss this topic. Nice to join your network.

Kenyi - So what's the advice for PM's in VE, just wait? I know some transnational companies are helping its employees, having then take on Jobs in branches in other countries, but this is surely not the only solution.

Comments? The only thing I can think of at the moment is to create awareness.

In my case George, I have tried to keep learning, keeping updated. I follow my basis on PMI, keep trying to control projects and doing what I can do from here. In case you do not have a chance to work for a transnational company, get a working visa in another country and try to mitigate risks for your own project, your life project!

We as project managers working in Venezuela we are currently facing a challenge!. As many other collegueas have explained before me, we faced different type of risks mainly on cost control, resource management, procurement, etc. In my case managing projects on the IT area (mobile APPs) finding skilled workers has been extremely difficult, mainly because most of them are better paid in other countries or work freelance from Venezuela to projects in other countries where they get paid in USD representing a good ammount due to exchange rates but not the proper salary if they were really working as developers in a foreign country. Sometimes for such type of phenomen I have made jokes saying that our skilled work force are the new "Indians" for South America, it means we are well trained, efficcient, but our rates (if paid in USD or Euros) are really low, it works here if you find someone to sell them and feel rich due to the exchange rates, but are not competitive if you compare them to same positions in other countries.

Speaking strictly of project management activities; the current situation has affected or rather increased the risk management. These risks can affect many areas. As PM, you have to assume that things that are not possible, in Venezuela they are possible.... jajaja
To work in Venezuela, you have to be a risk lover.... truly lover
what benefit gives us... if we are good in our job, we will acquire a higher capacity of problem resolution...