Building Professionalism in Project Management.®

ISGI3rd International Workshop

Lille, France

Harry Stefanou, Ph.D. Research Manager

“PMI”, the PMI logo, and “PMBOK” are registered marks of the Project Management Institute, Inc.

My Purpose today

• Provide overview of the Knowledge and Wisdom Center’s Plans

• Provide overview of Research’s Plans

Knowledge Community is the theme

PMI the Mile High View

Project Management Institute (PMI)–Not-for-profit professional association

–Over 110,000 members worldwide in more than 140 countries

–Established 1969

–Global Organization Headquartered in:Newtown Square, Pennsylvania USA

–PMI Regional Service Centre located in:

Brussels, Belgium

PMI is Global and Growing

• Members in more than 140 countries• Over 300 organizations participating in the PMI Group Billing Plan• Almost 260 chartered and potential chapters • More than 30 chartered Specific Interest Groups (SIG) and five potential SIGs• Two Colleges PMI Membership, 1969-2002

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68.67% USA10.67% Canada20.66% Outside USA/Canada

PMI James R. Snyder Center for Project Management Knowledge & Wisdom

Center• Opened in 2001• Houses 1200 books• Over 100 audio-visual resources• 56 Journal Subscriptions• Complete runs of PMI journals• Over 4000 individually abstracted papers• Three commercial database subscription

– LexisNexis– EBSCO– Dialog

• Over 450 internal documents, conference proceedings and CII publications

Knowledge & Wisdom Center Mission

• To provide the most relevant, reliable and timely information on the practice and profession of project management.

Major Initiatives with External Focus

• Develop Best Practice database– Generally applicable contributions PMI component members

• Searchable by industry, • Searchable by PMBOK® Guide Knowledge areas• Members only section of Web- currently

• Linking Knowledge & Wisdom Center to community sites – Use of Knowledgebase (online catalogue)– Citation and abstracts to inform “chats”

• Goal to make full text available through E-commerce

– Currently two years of PMI journal articles available to members on Web

• “Pmlinks” Information pull technology – future focus• PMI® Thesaurus of Project Management Terms

– Glossary of terms in PMI standards – Official Library of congress source for PM terms

Internal Initiatives

• Intranet– Document repository

• High interest documents to stakeholders– Currently used documents– Inactive but reference quality documents (short term)– Archival quality historic documents (permanent)– Searchable Acronym database

• Procedural Handbooks• Intra-departmental news bulletins

Research

Formed in 1997

Technical research, Market Research,Environmental Scan

SponsorsResearch projects through seed funding

Research Conference

Research Open Working Session

Publication of key learnings

Mission

The PMI research program will be a source for the highest quality information that defines or expands the profession’s body of knowledge.

Our clients and their enterprises will have access to the information to achieve excellence in their strategic initiatives.

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Areas of Focus - 2003

• Value of PM

• Risk management

• PMs as Executive Sponsors

• Evolution of PM for business/next generation PM

• Portfolio/Program management/PMO

• Soft Skills in PM

• Strategic plan linkages w/PM

• Practice/profession of PM in a less spend economy

• Metrics for senior managers

• Global PM/virtual

• Knowledge management

• Role of education and qualifications in project success outcomes

• Challenges of global/virtual project management

Research DepartmentFocus for the Future

Community of KnowledgeThe Catalyst

Needs Sharing& application

Discovery

“Knowledge Community” Thoughts

• Survey links on the web

• Database of expertise and interest

• Community web page