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PMI, FICCI SIGN MoU Project Management Institute, the world's leading not-for-profit professional association for the project management profession, and FICCI, India's apex business organisation, signed an MoU to advance the discipline and practice of project management in India. The pact aims to advocate, promote and institutionalise project management across government agencies, public sector enterprises and organisations.
The MoU covers developing special training modules for government and public sector units on project management. Further, the MoU will enable FICCI access to PMI's globally developed project management standards , publications, and case studies. The agreement also enables the two organisations to share information, conduct joint research, and promote the discipline of project management through joint seminars, conferences, and other platforms.
Speaking on the occasion, Raj Kalady, Managing Director, PMI India, said, "Our partnership with FICCI is vital to the advancement of the project management profession in India. Given the impact of the economic downturn and the focus of the Indian government on infrastructure and growth, the time is right to apply the principles of project management to ensure that projects yield the benefits for which they were designed."
What is project management?
Project management is the application of knowledge, skills, tools and techniques to a broad range of activities-across sectors like infrastructure, engineering, IT, defense and aerospace, pharmaceuticals among others-in order to ensure that the projects are completed and delivered on time and within budget and to meet the objectives for which they were intended.
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