Author: Shahidah FOSTER, CAPM

Every other month, the Curator’s Pick brings you selected learning content from the PMI library. Each article spotlights one key topic drawn from PMI focus areas, PMI Switzerland Members’ Choice, or emerging trends.

This edition focuses on the recent evolution in how the PMI defines project success. The definition of project success is evolving from a process-centric perspective (did we deliver the thing?) to a value-centric perspective (did the thing we delivered create value?).

The global economy is transforming, and as uncertainty increases, it is more important than ever for companies to focus on nurturing and accelerating the growth of their products and services, as well as increasing margins, to stay resilient. Using value as a metric in projects (especially in product development) is strategic and powerful for driving the innovation and customer success needed for this kind of growth. PMI offers a wide range of learning resources that explore the power of using value as a success metric and how to guard against its pitfalls.

The following curated resources offer practical and strategic perspectives to project leaders and project professionals to navigate this shift and strengthen their impact going forward. 

Our first resource, the Step Up: Redefining the Path to Project Success with M.O.R.E. report, shares a framework based on the updated definition of project success: delivering value that is perceived by stakeholders as worth the effort and expense. The framework, M.O.R.E., stands for the following principles: 

M – Manage perceptions 

O – Own success

R – Relentlessly reassess

E – Expand perspective 

This framework increases project success by guiding practitioners through fundamental activities such as measuring performance, defining value (success criteria), using regular progress measurements to guide decision-making, and explaining why striving to deliver greater value enhances value delivery. 

In the next resource, From Vision to Practice: A Playbook to Apply M.O.R.E. report, the PMI takes it a step further by exploring the list of practices, using robust explanations such as mapping principles to focus areas and performance domains, sharing examples of proper application of each principle including case studies that detail the challenge and approach used to drive key results as well as “Try This” suggestions for how to put each of the principles in action.  

If value is the primary measure of project success, then the next resource, the Projectified® Podcast’s episode on How Project Managers Spot Red Flags and Get Ahead of Them, offers advice to project professionals on ensuring project success, specifically by identifying common warning signs and managing scope. This episode shares how to recognize and deal with scope creep, ambiguity in scope, adjusting scope, and how to communicate warning signs at the executive level. 

Whether you are learning to define value or measure project success by value delivered, these resources offer perspectives on how project professionals and practitioners can operationalize value responsibly.  We invite you to explore PMI articles and webinars to identify which insights are most relevant to your current projects or initiatives and their priorities.

Authored by Shahidah FOSTER, CAPM

Less theory. Less hype. More practical AI you can actually use on Monday morning.

Artificial Intelligence is everywhere today. We hear about it constantly. But many project professionals are still asking the same question: 

“How do I actually use this in my daily project work?”

On Saturday 20 June 2026, PMI Switzerland invites you to join a unique in-person AI Masterclass in Basel focused on practical application for project managers, PMO professionals, and programme leaders.

This is not a beginner awareness session or another theoretical conference talk. It is a highly interactive working session designed for professionals who have already started experimenting with AI and now want to move beyond scattered prompting into more structured, practical, and valuable usage.

The day is built around six intensive one-hour sprints — giving participants more than six hours of practical hands-on labs using AI across realistic project management situations.

Together with AI expert Florian Ivan, participants will explore how AI can support activities such as:

Author: Philip SPRINGUEL, PMP

Dear members and colleagues,

Your PMI Switzerland newsletter this month features an article discussing AI implementation in projects, in which author Gianmarco Sirei warns that AI systems are not self-governing and cannot be relied on to behave correctly! Read this article to understand why project management is critical to turning technical capability into reliable and scalable outcomes.

Also in this newsletter, read PMI volunteer Maja Mandic’s post-event report about the first Project Managers Networking Apéro in St. Gallen held this past 23 April. The event welcomed professionals not only from St. Gallen, but also from Liechtenstein, Chur, and the wider region.

We're pleased as usual in our newsletters, to highlight several new members joining our PMI Switzerland community. 

Read on to review upcoming opportunities to network and develop crucial skills, such as: Matt Lanfear’s workshop on how to thrive in times of uncertainty, scheduled for 27 May in Zurich; Christine Petersen’s 22 June interactive session in Zurich about ‘influence,’ building on Cialdini’s seven principles; and, don’t forget the PMI Masterclass on 4 July presented by Camille Caclin, Mastering Crisis: A Systemic and Human Approach to Project Leadership, also in Zurich.

Philip SPRINGUEL, Newsletter Copy Editor