What is PMI
If this is the first you have heard of PMI: it is the international professional body for project management, and we are its chapter in North Macedonia.
The organisation
The Project Management Institute was founded in 1969 in the United States and has been the reference point for project management ever since: it publishes the standards organisations work to, runs the certifications, and researches the profession.
The standards
The best known is the PMBOK® Guide — a guide to project management practice. It is not a recipe but a shared language: when two people from different countries talk about scope, risk or stakeholders, they mean the same thing.
The certifications
The PMP is the best known, the CAPM is the entry point. A certification is evidence that you know how to run a project to a tested practice, and it is one of the few things in this profession an employer abroad recognises without explanation.
What a chapter is
PMI works through local chapters — associations that carry the profession in their own country. A chapter is not a PMI branch office: it is an independent association of local members, with its own board, operating under PMI’s rules. Ours is registered in Skopje and run by volunteers.
What that means for you
In practice: events you can walk to rather than fly to, people who understand the same constraints, PDUs from the annual conference to keep a certification current, and a line into the international profession without leaving the country.
And what it is not
PMI is not a recruitment agency, nor a school handing out diplomas at the end of a course. The chapter does not run exams and cannot promise anyone a job. What it offers is a standard, a community, and a place where the profession meets.