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byCan AI replace people? Sometimes. But we invest in project managers for when things aren’t going smoothly. And that’s where they always have—and always will have—value.

Can AI replace people? Sometimes. But we invest in project managers for when things aren’t going smoothly. And that’s where they always have—and always will have—value.
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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.
The PMI Talent & Technology Symposium 2018 is the fusion of two prior events, the Internet Systems & Technologies Symposium, and the Talent Management Conference. The new event focuses on the impact of rapidly changing technologies on the project management discipline and careers. Participants will better understand how emerging technologies affect their career and skills progression, as well as the evolving needs of hiring managers as they seek out top project management talent.
Stay ahead of career requirements and organizational demands at the PMI Talent Management Conference 2017, the only talent management event designed exclusively for PM professionals.
Explore sponsorship, organizational influence, and legacy leadership while learning practical strategies to create opportunities and support future project leaders..
HR leaders today are managing far more than policies and people; they’re driving complex, high-stakes projects that shape the future of the workforce. From AI adoption to employee engagement and training initiatives, success depends on more than good intentions. It requires a proven approach to execution. Maximizing HR’s Potential: A New Approach to Project Execution will show HR professionals how project management can transform the way they deliver results fast, focused, and built to last.
PMI forecasts a possible global talent gap of up to 30 million project professionals by 2035. Explore the data behind the demand, and what’s at stake if we don’t close the gap.
Now more than ever, it's challenging to schedule meetings that cater to workers in multiple time zones. The International Meeting Planner helps you choose the optimal time for your international meetings based on the number of attendees—and the local time—in each time zone. The red-amber-green color coding shows you (and the team) at a glance how friendly (or unfriendly) a suggested meeting time is for up to nine time zones.
Translate your improvement plans into concrete actions and real results using this simple questionnaire, which helps you chart development focus areas and tie them to situations you encounter on the job. Adjust to fit your situation, and add rows/sections as needed.
Use this template in conjunction with the article How to Strengthen Your Resilience to help evaluate yourself across 12 dimensions and look for areas to improve—and strengths that will enable you to help others.
If it weren’t for people, projects would be easy! Getting the team to act as one is challenging. This presentation from the PMI Global Congress 2014 in Phoenix will help you all trust each other, stick together and achieve project success.
UPDATED TEMPLATE! A core requirement of building a project team is identifying the people that you need to work with. The skill requirements worksheet and questionnaire is a planning tool to support thinking about the expertise and skills that you need in your project team.
If you want to embrace new ways of working, create new options for delivering projects, or enhance the project delivery environment, then you have to actually explore some of those different approaches. Here's how a gamble for one company paid off.
Better discovery leads to better project outcomes. This article highlights how Farm Credit Mid-America's PMO) guided its two summer interns in 2026 to deliver high-impact results using surveys in discovery to create actionable solutions.
How do we future-proof a workforce? More importantly, what would it take to build workforce readiness not just for today, but for the decade ahead? This practitioner shares how a project helped illustrate the answer.
Ignoring career development with your organization's talent is like ignoring a persistent and long-lasting body pain after a workout. It may not seem like a problem until it becomes one.
High turnover, burnout, and quiet quitting drain the vitality of organizations. Reversing withdrawal does not happen overnight. Think of these strategies as a targeted treatment plan.
Parenting and project management may seem like two very different worlds, but they’re both about guiding people through uncertainty, balancing competing priorities, and keeping things moving even when the plan falls apart. Here are six lessons parenting taught this practitioner about projects.
How and where do organizations seek volunteer PMs and other project team members? What is the best way to deploy those volunteers, and how can those organizations add value to the volunteers they enlist?
PM processes, tools, and techniques invaded this practitioner's daily existence, whether he liked it or not…turning him into a slightly neurotic, but oddly efficient, human being.
Integrating hybrid project management and repeatable processes can create fertile ground for intern success. This article highlights how Farm Credit Mid-America's PMO empowered two interns to deliver high-impact solutions using a scaled-down, yet robust, project framework.
High-performing teams don’t emerge by chance; they are carefully nurtured through intentional strategies. This article explores six essential strategies for redefined leadership and unlocking your team's potential in a project-driven world.
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