1. PMI Global and Your Chapter
2019 Updates

2. PMI Global Overview Celebrating 50 years in service in October 2019
Over 500,000 members worldwide
Over 300 Chapters Worldwide
Over 10,000 Chapter and other volunteers
Annual Meeting / Expo with latest in successes, trends, software, approaches
Largest PM networking organization
Standards, guides, and largest provider of tools & templates for PM
Largest provider of PM Certifications

3. PMI Certifications – ISO aligned
Project Management Professional (PMP)
Over 875,000 PMPs worldwide since inception (1984)
Bluegrass Chapter has at least one member with a 4 digit PMP number
Gold Standard of project management certifications
Program Management Professional (PgMP)
For senior level Program Managers
Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM)
For those new-ish to the profession
More….

4. PMI Certifications – ISO aligned
PMI Professional in Business Analysis (PMI-PBA)
For those who are primarily business analysts
PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI – ACP)
For those who truly practice agile project efforts
PMI Risk Management Professional (PMI-RMP)
For those who practice risk management in projects as a profession
More….

5. PMI Certifications – ISO aligned
PMI Scheduling Professional (PMI-SP)
For those who are primarily involved in schedule development and management

6. Projectmanagement.com – your portal to tools and templates
Over a thousand templates
Many other tools
Networking
PART OF YOUR PMI MEMBERSHIP
Your resource for hundreds on live and on-demand webinars!
Don’t waste time looking for templates and other tools – leverage your membership!

7. 50 years of service! Formed in 1969
Ned Engman (McDonnel Douglas Automation), James Snyder and Susan Gallagher (SmithKline & French Laboratories), Eric Jenett (Brown & Root) and J Gordon Davis (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Based in Newtown Square PA, USA
Regional Offices in Dundalk, Ireland; Mumbai, India; Singapore; Beijing, Shezhen, Shanghai, PR China
academic research, peer research, networking……..

8. Additional Resources
Project Management Institute Education Foundation PMIEF)
Provides support for K-12 instruction of project management concepts
Provides scholarship efforts
Supports local chapter efforts in education
SeminarsWorld
Held regionally
Provides intensive educational and topical training
Congress – EMEA, ASIA, World
This year the 50th anniversary will be celebrated in Philadelphia PA during World Congress

9. Your Bluegrass Chapter
Now in our 21st year
Provides local networking
Provides local content (lunch meetings, etc.)
Provides local professional development opportunities (PDD)
Supports PMI global efforts
Supports the art and science of project management
Please consider volunteering to support the local efforts to promote project management to local government, education, healthcare and industry!

10. Thank You