Brazil recently passed an important milestone with its 10.000th PMI member. Juliano Reis, PMI's representantive in the country, notes that since 2009, project management has grown impressively in Brazil, with a corresponding increase in PMI membership from 7.000 to over 10.000. Currently there are approximately 11.000 PMI credential holders living in Brazil.
In 2010, 4.272 new Brazilian members joined PMI and started to take advantage of a large number of resources to advance their carrers and develop themselves as better project managers. Also during 2010, 1.037 practitioners earned the Project Management Professional (PMP) credential and 47 achieved the Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM) certification. All of these statistics are significant factors in PMI's overall global growth.
What does this mean? Mr. Reis believes that Brazilians are viewing project management in a professional manner, organizations want to achieve business goals through projects and universities are preparing better professionals to fulfill the upcoming huge demand for those professionals who are able to work in project teams.
According to PMI-sponsored research, there are a large number of investments in infrastructure projects with many new organizations coming to Brazil through 2016. The economy increased a record 7.5% in 2010. Its largest increase since 1986. Helping to fuel this growth was Brazilian industry, which expanded over 10% last year. Brazil's economic growth surpassed South Korea, Japan, Germany and the United States - and also exceeded the 5% world average for GDP growth. The construction industry is predicted to be among the fastest growing in the world over the next five years.
Fonte: PMI Today. November, 2011. pag. 5.
