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We start the new decade with a bang as we present the 13th edition of our annual virtual conference and exhibition! Whether you’re a seasoned PM or new to the field, PMXPO provides an excellent opportunity to learn, network, earn PDUs and broaden your perspective on project management. This year’s show is headlined by keynote speaker Cara Brookins, a bestselling author who rebuilt her broken family by building her own house watching “how-to” videos on YouTube.
Join us for PMI Business Analysis Virtual Conference 2019! This virtual event will explore the latest trends in business analysis and provide you with the insights, resources, and tools to advance your career and enhance project success.
The PMI Talent & Technology Symposium 2019 explores the impact of rapidly changing technologies on the project management profession across industries. Participants will gain an understanding of how to better position themselves for growth and to identify talent for their project teams.
This webinar explores the evolution of the GPM-b™ credential into the Certified Sustainable Project Professional (CSPP™) and what the transition means for modern project leaders. Attendees will learn how the CSPP™ positions sustainability as a core project management capability, how the credential is earned, and how it fits within the broader certification landscape. The session also examines why sustainable project leadership is becoming increasingly critical for long-term career growth and organizational impact.
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.
Project managers today must do more than manage scope, schedule, and budget—they must lead. In this session, Dr. Vince Molinaro introduces a practical framework to help project managers strengthen their influence, create value, and drive meaningful change.
Crisis. The very word strikes fear and panic, often accompanied by sudden, unexpected events and a high degree of uncertainty and risk. Every project will have challenges, but a crisis is another level that is disruptive, driven by a sense of urgency, and high-impact, which can unsettle even the experienced PM and derail their project. The good news is that recognizing a crisis and utilizing the 3 C's of crisis leadership principles and responses can enable you as a program and project manager to embrace, adapt, and even thrive (EAT) in a crisis. Join this webinar to learn practical strategies to effectively lead your project team through a crisis.
You have likely come across a SWOT analysis, which maps strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. This template applies the SWOT concept to your career development plans to help you build on strengths, address areas of weakness, leverage opportunities and monitor threats.
You may be the most brilliant project manager out there, but it doesn't count for much if it comes at the expense of everything else. You are more likely to establish a sustainable, long-term PM career when you can balance your life with your work. This workbook allows you to leverage agile principles to do that. Use in conjunction with the Agile Your Life webinar.
To help you think through each of the sustainable PM drivers and how they apply to you, use this template to assess yourself and develop your plan for becoming a sustainable PM. Use in conjunction with the article Becoming a Sustainable Project Manager.
Taking time to reflect on ways you have integrated your PM skills into your day-to-day life can be an invaluable exercise. The more consciously you are aware of your competencies, the more successful you may be in your PM career—and your life journey. Use this simple worksheet as a starting point and in conjunction with the article Applying PM Skills to Day-to-Day Life.
How content you are in your current and future career potential? With your physical and mental health? With your current and future financial status? This assessment will help you think through areas in your life that are most important to you—and develop a practical and sustainable purpose statement to guide you when to say "yes" to some things and "no" to others. Use in conjunction with the blog "Your North Star – Creating a Practical and Sustainable Purpose Statement."
Thinking about volunteering? A longtime practitioner reflects on her 33-year journey that began after attending her first conference in 1992. Through her many roles, she gained invaluable skills, friendships, and opportunities, and encourages others to make a meaningful impact.
As project managers, we pride ourselves on discipline, intentionality, and learning from experience. Applying those same principles to our own careers may be the most challenging project we ever manage.
Organizations are undertaking more projects than ever, and the nature of those projects is diversifying. Does that create a need for specialist PMs? How can you maintain a successful career in these fast-changing times?
Career paths for the IT project manager are evolving, with your job becoming more strategic and less traffic-based. Here’s how the change will happen. Let’s make sure you’re ahead of the game when it does…
By deliberately fostering targeted career development skills, PMOs can elevate their teams into strategic contributors who deliver value well beyond immediate project outcomes. Here's how to integrate career development within the PMO setting.
PMI has expanded the PMI Certified Professional in Managing AI (PMI-CPMAI)™ to nine additional languages, helping more individuals build the knowledge and confidence to lead AI initiatives successfully, regardless of location.
PMI has introduced a new suite of official preparation resources to support candidates preparing for the revised Project Management Professional (PMP)® exam, launching on 9 July 2026.
Throughout history, there have been many outstanding baseball pitchers—from starters, relievers and closers. It’s their role, or branding, that distinguishes how and when they are used in a game. What can PMs learn from this?
Wherever you are in your AI journey, you have something valuable to contribute to project management. Your skepticism, enthusiasm, questions, experiments, successes and failures all move the profession forward.
Regardless of whether you are an entrepreneur, an up-and-coming executive, or a professional who is examining ways in which to enhance their business instincts, mentorship can be a key factor in accelerating the growth of colleagues.
Whether it’s a potential hiring manager or a company executive looking to appoint a PM for a critical initiative, are you prepared to deliver your career elevator pitch when it matters most? (Elevator optional...)
How experienced project managers respond to AI today will influence not only their own careers, but how the profession itself is perceived inside organizations. Here's how PMs can become leaders rather than resources.
This practitioner takes a step back in time to share how her experiences in project management began—and why we still need to champion women in the profession.
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