Simply explained by a PMI-certified Project Manager
PMI is revising The Standard for Portfolio Management. The draft of the fifth edition is in the ANSI public review stage right now, and the comment window closes on 7 September 2026. You do not need a paid PMI membership to take part, and you do not need to be a portfolio manager. This is … Read more
Three things really changed in project management certification in 2026, and a lot of what you read about a fourth and a fifth is not backed by anything the certifying bodies published. This is the checked version: what changed, on what date, and where you can verify it yourself. Everything below was read on the … Read more
By Tom, PMP-certified since 2004. Last updated: July 2026. If you’re planning to sit the PMP exam this year, the price is about to change. PMI is raising the non-member exam fee starting August 6, 2026, a few weeks after the updated PMP exam launched on July 9, 2026. Here’s what’s actually changing, and what … Read more
By Tom, PMP-certified since 2004. Last updated: July 2026. On 9 July 2026, PMI switched the Project Management Professional (PMP)® exam over to a new Examination Content Outline (ECO). Anyone who tested on 8 July or earlier still sat the 2021 version; anyone testing now gets the new exam. It is the biggest revision since … Read more
Artificial intelligence has moved from novelty to normal in the space of a few years. Predictive scheduling, automated status reporting, risk scoring, resource optimization — tools that touch portfolios, programs, and projects (PPPM) are already in daily use. What has been missing is an agreed, vendor-neutral answer to a simple question: how do we use … Read more