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The PMI Official mobile app helps you maintain your PMI certification and deepen your project management expertise

Mirjam Nufer Author: Daniel Rodellar, PMP

The PMI Official mobile app helps you maintain your PMI certification and deepen your project management expertise

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PMI provides a mobile app that allows certified project professionals to manage their certifications and track track Professional Development Units (PDUs) accrual. Built for PMI-certified Project Professionals, this first release of the PMI Official mobile app lets you track and report PDUs to maintain your PMI certification, as well as find PDU-earning opportunities that support your career goals and learning style.

PMI mobile app

https://www.pmi.org/official-mobile-app 

PMI Official Mobile App - This app is designed for PMI-certified professionals to manage their certifications, track PDUs, and find opportunities to earn more PDUs. It is available on both Android (Google Play) and iPhone (App Store) and users can log in with their existing PMI account to streamline the certification management process.

Here’s a complete list of everything you can accomplish with the new app:

  • Check your certification’s renewal status
  • Get certification renewal reminders
  • Track and report PDUs
  • Learn more about PDUs and certification maintenance
  • Search and filter courses that match your career goals and learning preferences
  • Save courses for future exploration
  • Explore a personalized dashboard
  • Provide feedback to shape future releases of the app

 

Editorial - PMI Switzerland Newsletter, July-August 2025

Daniel Rodellar

Author: Daniel Rodellar, PMP

Harnessing the Power of Community, Innovation, and Purpose in Project Management

Dear PMI Switzerland Community and newsletter readers,

As summer brings new energy and opportunities, PMI Switzerland stands at the forefront of a dynamic transformation in the world of project management. This edition of our newsletter reflects the collective spirit, curiosity, and commitment of our members. From pioneering AI resources to driving social impact and from celebrating volunteer leadership to championing lifelong learning, our chapter continues to lead with purpose and innovation.

This year, we proudly launch the Members’ Choice banner, reflecting your top event topics and making our sessions truly member-driven. AI is rapidly transforming the field of project management. Our Curator’s Pick spotlights PMI’s AI Resource Hub, featuring publications, eLearning, and the exclusive PMI Infinity™ AI-powered coach. At PMI Switzerland, we see project management as a force for positive change beyond business. Our partnerships with PMWB, Homeless Entrepreneur, Bevel ON, Engineers Without Borders, and Doctors Without Borders show our commitment to social impact. These initiatives provide tangible benefits to communities in need. We invite every member to join us in making a difference—together, we amplify the power of projects to transform lives. Supporting initiatives like the Bevel ON Capacity Building Programme, we offer free training to professionals in transition, investing in human potential and community resilience. With over 220 graduates, this program shows how knowledge and coaching drive progress.

With the 2026-2027 elections on the horizon, we invite passionate members to step up and lead. If you live PMI values and are ready to commit, stand for election and help shape our future. Continuous learning is now easier with the PMI Official mobile app—track PDUs, manage certifications, and find learning opportunities on the go. Finally, our review of Robert Cialdini’s "Influence: New and Expanded" offers insight into the art of persuasion. The book is full of practical advice, but an abridged version may serve you best. In project management, understanding influence is essential.

Leading together with purpose !

This summer, we celebrate the vibrant, values-driven community that makes them possible. Whether you are exploring new technologies, volunteering for social good, or stepping into leadership, remember: at PMI Switzerland, your passion and participation are the driving force behind our impact. Let’s continue to learn, lead, and make a difference—together.

Warm regards,

Daniel Rodellar, PMP. Publications Director.
PMI Switzerland Newsletter Team

Book Review - Robert Cialdini's Influence New and Expanded

Mirjam Nufer Author: Joachim Dehais, PhD, PMP, TOGAF, CCBA, CPSP

Book Review - Robert Cialdini's Influence New and Expanded

Cialdini is an expert, an expert in compliance? Perhaps. An expert in Influence? It looks like it.

An expert in relativity theory: most certainly. The man bends and stretches space with great skill.

influence taschenbuch robert b cialdini

 

Do not take this to mean that the book is worthless. On the contrary, it contains a lot of good advice.

What it also contains is a lot of convoluted arguments built to surprise you with the obvious, anecdotes and references to justify arguments that didn't need it, and rehashing of the greatest order.

After 450 pages that could have been 50, here is a review to justify my advice of reading an abridged version, abridged by someone else.

 

Influence is a book about all the ways in which we can increase agreement from others using tips and tricks, from the most honest, to the most dishonest.

To be honest, in fact, it would take extreme task orientation to be unswayed by the methods in this book. What may even be described as being on the autism spectrum.

 

The book begins with a short and sweet introductive chapter describing pull-and-release tactics, negotiation anchors, as well as preferential attachment.

Follows with a chapter on reciprocation, and how little gifts can spiral into great benefits, even by staging failures to have opportunities to make gifts. In this chapter we also expand on the pull and release method in negotiations.

 

The chapter on social proof is perhaps the most important. With elements such as Multi Level Marketing, the ease of accepting and difficulty of rejecting offers by close ones, as well as leveraging the grapevine, it holds solid elements to improve your stakeholder management. It also develops on the preferential attachment principle without naming it, or why using good pictures makes others like our ideas more, and how isolating people makes it easier to get compliance.

 

The chapter on authority, although mildly offsprung from social proof, tells of the effect of social hierarchy, and how it brings natural compliance. It describes how to use titles, the halo effect, and imperfect reviews, and external signs of success to gain easy compliance. Thus, it explains the big gars, rolexes, fancy suits, and the most careful control of image that we see, including on linkedin and in corporate competition.

 

Scarcity is another great chapter, though it devolves into more social competition and proof. This "principle" is all about loss aversion (2-3 times stronger than desire for more) and competition (social proof/status). By applying the idea of scarcity or exclusivity, in time, in stock, in features, in products, in geography, we can gain interest. Even more interesting, claiming that products or information about products is banned seems to increase the perceived trustability, testifying to the modern social distrust. These elements can be used to tremendous effects together to bring snap decisions.

 

The section on commitment and consistency, while great, is where coherence flies out the window in an effort to reach warmer shores. Here the author entirely bypasses the difficult relation between consistency and discipline. Nevertheless he makes good points on our drive to consistency, and how when we give small commitments, we become increasingly susceptible to agree for the sake of it. You may know this as the "foot through the door" technique. Here we see another issue: should we pull and retreat, or slip through the door? There is no clear view on where which works, or how they play together. The social part of consistency is also effectively described, particularly how publicising commitments forces people into compliance, such as was the cast in communist camps, or in religious sects, or... in vendor lock-in.

 

The section of unity, new in the expanded edition, feels exactly that, botched. A major rehash of the section on social proof, and a weak adaptation of scientific research on in vs out group preference. Its advice is visible in many team building events done in bad faith, and finishes with a weak tirade on world peace which was probably mandated to appeal to a new crowd.

 

The last section on the digital age was also slapped right on top, with more elements of social proof and social media that would better fit before.

 

Overall, I hate having had to spend so much time on such low quality writing and composition, but I still recommend reviewing the content. And for this I recommend you to find an abridged version, to reward the content, but not the form. For an ultra condensed version, just ask me for my notes!

 

PMI Switzerland Chapter Elections Announcement

Marina Satapathy Author: Marina Satapathy, PMP

PMI Switzerland Chapter Elections Announcement

At PMI, our volunteers are the cornerstone of all our initiatives. This ethos is reflected not only in our newsletter, website, and events but also in our chapter's strategy and leadership. As we approach the 2026-2027 election term, we are actively seeking committed PMI Switzerland Chapter members who:

  • Embody PMI Values: Live and breathe the principles that guide our organization.
  • Innovate: Bring practical ideas to elevate our chapter to new heights.
  • Take Initiative: Exhibit a hands-on attitude to co-lead various committees, workstreams, and initiatives.
  • Handle Complexity: Manage complex programs and demanding stakeholders with ease.
  • Stand for Election: Are willing to run in the upcoming PMI Swiss chapter elections.
  • Commit to Volunteering: Can dedicate themselves to a 2-year volunteer role, specifically for positions such as:
    • Board of Directors
    • Election Committee Member
    • Finance Auditor
  • Engage and Collaborate: Are ready for action, teamwork, and fun!

If you see yourself in this description, we invite you to express your interest by reaching out to one of our Board of Directors members or contacting us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

The application process will commence in August. Together, let's empower people to transform ideas into reality.

Your Election Committee
Marina Satapathy, PMP