1. The Value of Project Management PMI’s 2018 Pulse of the Profession® Caterina La Tona – Chair, 2018 PMI Board of Directors
March 2018

2. Project managers make
dreams come true

3. “What do you do?”

4. Business Disruption
is all around us

5. Strategic change looks toward the future and happens through projects

6. Strategic change looks toward the future and happens through projects
Yet fewer than 3 in 5 organizations understand the value of project management

7. Strategy-Execution Gap

8. $99 million On average, organizations waste
for every $1 billion invested

9. $108 million On average, organizations waste
for every $1 billion invested
* Pulse of the Profession ® 2018 Research Findings – UK

11. Pulse of the Profession®

12. Skills Benefits Sponsor Agility Drivers of Success
Can you identify when to use the correct approach?
Are you ready to be a project leader?
Can you connect your team to the dream?
Do you know what motivates your executive sponsor?

13. PMI Talent Triangle®

14. Learning from communication failures

15. Skills Benefits Sponsor Agility Drivers of Success
Can you identify when to use the correct approach?
Are you ready to be a project leader?
Can you connect your team to the dream?
Do you know what motivates your executive sponsor?

16. Benefits Realization Maturity

17. Benefits Realization is about the “why” Benefits Realization

18. Skills Benefits Sponsor Agility Drivers of Success
Can you identify when to use the correct approach?
Are you ready to be a project leader?
Can you connect your team to the dream?
Do you know what motivates your executive sponsor?

19. Executive sponsorship is essential

20. Skills Benefits Sponsor Agility Drivers of Success
Can you identify when to use the correct approach?
Are you ready to be a project leader?
Can you connect your team to the dream?
Do you know what motivates your executive sponsor?

21. Agility - Knowing when to use agile approaches is key
In our study, twice as many champion organizations reported frequent use of agile practices than low performers. 21

23. Giving Back!

24. Making dreams come true24