Project Manager Profile Survey by PMI Kazakhstan Chapter

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Project Manager Profile Survey by PMI Kazakhstan Chapter

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A survey on the Project manager profession across multiple countries

PMI Kazakhstan Chapter https://pmi.org.kz/

About the survey

Hi! Thank you for opening this survey! PMI Kazakhstan Chapter is looking for an answer to the question “Who is the Project Manager today?”

To answer this question, and with the support of the Project Manager Community in Kazakhstan (https://t.me/projects_kz) we conduct a comprehensive survey. In this survey, we will not inquire about salaries or company names; instead, we want to focus on the tools, approaches, responsibilities, and skills involved in the role. The survey will take 40 minutes on average.

The results will be published on LinkedIn page of PMI Kazakhstan Chapter. We are willing to share them with everyone, so at the end of the survey, you can provide your email address, and we will send you the results personally.

Demographic

For the beginning, we would like to learn more about you.
This information will help us to draw a portrait of a modern project manager as a person.

What is your age?*
Please enter a number greater than 15
What is your sex?*
- Female
- Male
- Prefer not to respond
Which country do you mainly live in?*
Country of primary residence - the place where you have spent the most time in the past year.
- Armenia
- Azerbaijan
- Germany
- Georgia
- Kazakhstan
- Serbia
- Kyrgyzstan
- Latvia
- Lithuania
- Uzbekistan
- Ukraine
- USA
- Estonia
- Poland
- France
- Other
Which city do you mainly live in?
City of primary residence - where you spent the most time over the past year.

Methodologies

The second most important section is what methodologies you use to manage your projects. How successful is the implementation of these methodologies in your company and in your job?

What are the three most essential skills for a Project Manager?
Based on your personal experience. Please select 3 options.
- Leadership
- Risk Management
- Negotiations
- Expectations Management
- Task Setting
- Planning
- Communication
- Conflict Management
- Change Management
- Team Motivation
- Other
What 3 skills would you like to develop for yourself in the coming year?
Please select at most 3 options.
- Communication
- Leadership
- Team Motivation
- Planning
- Risk Management
- Conflict Management
- Negotiations
- Task Setting
- Expectations Management
- Change Management
- Other

Please assess your knowledge and experience in applying these methodologies

Methodology	I do not know this methodology	I have heard of it, but not more	I have studied it in theory/took courses	I applied the methodology at least once	I constantly use it in my job
Predictive (aka Waterfall)
Scrum
Kanban
Lean
XP (Extreme Programming)
PMBoK
PRINCE2
SAFe
P3.express / P5.express / micro.P3.express
Six Sigma
LeSS (Large Scale Scrum)
IPMA ICB 4.0

What additional methodologies and practices do you use?
Please list, separated by commas, those methodologies, practices, and processes that you use in your work but have not found them in the list above.
What frameworks or methodologies would you like to learn and/or try?
For various reasons, you have not been able to learn and/or try them yet (select no more than three).
- P3.express / P5.express / micro.P3.express
- Lean
- PRINCE2
- SAFe
- IPMA ICB 4.0
- Kanban
- PMBoK
- LeSS (Large Scale Scrum)
- Scrum
- Six Sigma
- XP (Extreme Programming)
- Other
What methodologies are accepted as standard in your company?
The standard your company uses for the majority of projects. Select no more than three. Skip the question if the company doesn’t have it as a standard.
- P3.express / P5.express / micro.P3.express
- Lean
- PRINCE2
- SAFe
- IPMA ICB 4.0
- Kanban
- PMBoK
- LeSS (Large Scale Scrum)
- Scrum
- Six Sigma
- XP (Extreme Programming)
- Other
Which project management methodologies do you believe are most promising for successfully implementing your projects?
Select no more than 3 options.
- P3.express / P5.express / micro.P3.express
- Lean
- PRINCE2
- SAFe
- IPMA ICB 4.0
- Kanban
- PMBoK
- LeSS (Large Scale Scrum)
- Scrum
- Six Sigma
- XP (Extreme Programming)
- Other

Project Successes and Failures

Please share your expert opinion on what factors influence the success or failure of projects.

What factors do you believe significantly impact the success of a project?
What factors should be monitored in a project to ensure its success? Please select at most 3 options.

Remote / Distributed team
Project team competencies
Team communications
Risk Management
Customer’s involvement
Change Management
Stakeholders’ involvement
Timeframe allocated for project
Budget allocated for the project
Project goals and tasks
Other

Please recall your LAST FAILED project and evaluate the impact of the factors that contributed to its results.

Factor	Strongly negative	Negative	Neutral	Positive	Strongly Positive
Budget allocated for the project
Remote / Distributed team
Timeframe allocated for project
Project team competencies
Project goals and tasks
Customer’s involvement
Team communications
Stakeholders’ involvement
Risk Management
Change Management

Please recall your LAST SUCCESSFUL project and evaluate the impact of the factors that contributed to its results.

Factor	Strongly negative	Negative	Neutral	Positive	Strongly Positive
Budget allocated for the project
Remote / Distributed team
Timeframe allocated for project
Project team competencies
Project goals and tasks
Customer’s involvement
Team communications
Stakeholders’ involvement
Risk Management
Change Management

Tools

This section is one of the most important. What tools do you use at work? Please list everything related to your job.

What tools do you use for long-term planning?
- Kaiten
- Microsoft Planner
- Jira
- Bitrix 24
- Basecamp
- Feedly
- Wrike
- Asana
- Microsoft Excel
- YouGile
- ClickUp
- Microsoft Project
- Google Docs
- Other
What tools do you use for everyday planning?
There are an enormous number of them, so if you can’t find yours, specify it in the “Other” field.
- Jira
- Trello
- Miro
- Notion
- Microsoft Excel
- Google Docs
- Physical Board
- ToDoist
- Microsoft Planner
- Feedly
- Basecamp
- JetBrains YouTrack
- Phabricator
- Redmine
- Other
What tools do you use to communicate with your project team?
- Discord
- Google Meet
- Zoom
- Mattermost
- Yandex.Telemost
- MS Teams
- WhatsApp
- Skype
- Telegram
- Kontur Talk
- Slack
- Email communication
- Other
What tools do you use to communicate with the customer in your projects?
By “customer” we mean another legal entity/stakeholder with whom you need to interact within your project.
- Discord
- Google Meet
- Zoom
- Mattermost
- Yandex.Telemost
- MS Teams
- WhatsApp
- Skype
- Telegram
- Kontur Talk
- Slack
- Email communication
- Other
What tools do you use in your work for documentation?
- Google Docs
- Proton Docs
- Notion
- LibreOffice
- Microsoft Office
- Phabricator
- Miro
- Atlassian Confluence
- Other
What tools do you use to plan and control your project budget?
- Microsoft Excel
- I do not use any tools to plan and control my project budget
- Microsoft Project
- Specialized corporate software (e.g., ERP)
- Other
What do you use for data analysis and reporting?
- DataLens
- Microsoft Excel
- Grafana
- Google Spreadsheets
- Tableau
- Power BI
- Other
Do you use artificial intelligence (AI) tools in your work?
- Yes
- No
What is stopping you from using AI in your work?
- AI tools are prohibited from using in my company
- Nothing. I do not have any suitable task for using it
- My company does not pay for AI tools
- I do not trust the results
- I do not know much about AI tools opportunities
- It is an additional payment for AI tools
- I do not see how I can use AI in my job
- Other

Artificial Intelligence Tools

AI tools have exploded into the professional market in recent years. But have these tools penetrated jobs? Tell us about your experience.

What tools have you used in the last three months?
- Chat GPT (free version)
- Chat GPT Plus
- GigaChat
- Yandex GPT
- Claude (Anthropic)
- Gemini / Bard (Google)
- Microsoft Office Copilot (integrated into MS Teams, Word, etc.)
- Perplexity
- Notion AI
- Own OpenSource-based solution
- Other
For what purposes have you used AI in your work (in the last 3 months)?
- Document/content generation
- Document content analysis
- Study
- Task decomposition
- Code/script generation
- Image generation
- Risk analysis
- Hypothesis testing
- Planning
- Other
How often do you use AI in your work?
- Daily
- Weekly
- Monthly
- Couple of times a month
When was the last time you used an AI tool in your work?
Choose the option that best reflects your experience.
- Today
- Yesterday
- A week ago
- Within this month
- Within the last three months

Please evaluate what best reflects your relationship with AI?

Statement	Completely agree	Agree	Neutral	Disagree	Completely disagree
AI tools are not ready to solve professional tasks
AI is just hype, there is no practical use for it
AI is able to takeover my routine job
AI makes my team more effective
AI disrupts my profession
I trust AI results
My company is actively implementing AI tools

In which areas do you anticipate AI tools will provide more assistance in your work?
Please select at most 3 options.
- Decision making assistance
- Document summarization
- Risk management (identification and monitoring)
- Manage my schedule (scheduling meetings, highlighting important tasks during the day)
- Crafting project reports
- Developing a project plan and tracking its progress
- Personal education
- Task setting
- Other
If you already have a prompt (a text query) for generative AI tools that you use in your job, please feel free to share it

Your recent project experience

The questions in this section pertain to your current or recently completed project. They do not require the disclosure of sensitive or specific data but will help us understand the scale of the projects that project managers are handling today.

Please specify the project budget, in USD
The value must be a number. The accuracy of the numbers is less important to us than obtaining a general understanding of the typical amounts. For example, 95,000 USD.
Project team size
Your direct and indirect reports. If multiple project managers are involved, please sum up the number of participants in their teams as well.
- Less than five
- 5-9
- 10-19
- 20-49
- 50-100
- More than 100
Project duration, months
The value must be a number.
Which sector is this project from?
- IT sector - Custom development
- IT sector - Integration of ready-made solutions
- IT sector - Outstaffing & Outsourcing
- Telecommunications
- Financial sector - Banking
- Financial sector - Insurance
- Financial sector - Payment operator
- Financial sector - Investments / Crypto
- Trade - Retail
- Trade - Wholesale
- Trade - E-commerce
- Media and Advertising - Media and content
- Media and Advertising - Advertising and Inventory
- Media and Advertising - Marketing
- Natural Resources - Oil and Gas
- Natural Resources - Mining
- Construction
- Heavy industry - Metallurgy
- Heavy industry - Mechanical Engineering and Machine Tools
- Heavy industry - Energy
- Logistics - Cargo Transportation
- Logistics - Passenger Transportation
- Medicine - Miscellaneous
- Education and Science - Edtech
- Entertainment - Game-dev
- Professional Services - Business Services
- Professional Services - Public
- Other

How would you assess this project health?
With this question, we aim to assess how the project adhered to the classic project management triangle. “Below expectations” means that the effectiveness in managing project timelines, budget, or scope was lower than planned. “Exceeded expectations” means that the effectiveness in managing project timelines, budget, or scope was higher than planned.

Category	Below expectations	As expected	Exceeded expectations
Project schedule
Total project budget
Project scope

Project customer
- Internal
- External
What is the target market for this project?
- Asia
- Europe
- North America
- South America
- CIS
- Africa
- Oceania
- Other

What is within your control on this project?
You can influence it, change and manage it

Aspect	Outside of my control	Can give recommendations	Within my control
Team
Budget
Material resources
Project scope
Schedule
Processes

If you could remove any task from your daily schedule, what would it be?
This question will help us understand what creates routine and burdens the Project Manager most.
- Planning project
- Setting tasks
- Preparing project reports
- Organizing meetings and summarizing results
- Collecting task statuses
- Managing risks
- Communicating with stakeholders
- Other
What insights did you get from this project?
In each of our projects we learn something new. If you have made important discoveries for yourself in this project, please share them with us.

Current Company

The nature of a project management job depends very much on what company you work for. Tell us a little about the company you currently work for.

Are you currently working?*
The answer to this question will help to remove questions that are irrelevant to you.
- Yes
- No
Which country is the company’s head office located in?*
Today, many companies have branches in different countries, but to unify the approach, we ask you to indicate exactly the original country of your company. This is often the country where the organization is headquartered.
- Armenia
- Azerbaijan
- Germany
- Georgia
- Kazakhstan
- Kyrgyzstan
- Latvia
- Lithuania
- Uzbekistan
- Ukraine
- USA
- Estonia
- France
- China
- UK
- The Netherlands
- Poland
- Other
What economic sector does your company belong to?*
Select the appropriate sector and industry of the company’s main activity from the drop-down list.
- IT sector - Custom development
- IT sector - Integration of ready-made solutions
- IT sector - Outstaffing & Outsourcing
- IT sector - Own Product Development
- Financial Sector - Banking
- Financial Sector - Insurance
- Financial Sector - Payment operator
- Financial Sector - Investments / Crypto
- Trade - Retail
- Trade - Wholesale
- Trade - E-commerce
- Media and Advertising - Media and content
- Media and Advertising - Advertising and Inventory
- Media and Advertising - Marketing
- Natural Resources – Oil and gas
- Natural Resources – Mining
- Construction
- Heavy Industry - Metallurgy
- Heavy Industry - Mechanical Engineering and Machine Tools
- Heavy Industry - Chemicals
- Heavy Industry - Energy
- Logistics - Cargo Transportation
- Logistics – Passenger Transportation
- Medicine
- Education and Science - Edtech
- Entertainment – Game-dev
- Professional Services - For Business
- Professional Services - Public
- Other
If your Company operates in more than one sector, you can specify them separated by commas
What type of office is the one you currently work in?*
- Headquarters
- Branch
- Representative Office
- Individual Entrepreneur / Freelance
- Other
What is the total headcount of your current company?*
- Less than 25 employees
- 25-49
- 50-99
- 100-249
- 500-999
- 1000-4999
- More than 5000 employees
What is your company’s target market?*
- Local - we do projects in the country of the head office location
- International - we do projects in countries not bordering the company’s head office country
- Near abroad - we do projects in countries bordering the company’s head office country
- Other
Who is your organization’s primary client?*
We understand that there are now many organizations that have hybrid business models, but please choose one option that best characterizes the products and services being created by your organization.
- B2C - we provide services and/or create products directly for individuals
- B2B - we provide services and/or create products for other businesses
- B2G - we provide services and/or create products for government organizations
What is the main language of communication in your company?*
You can select several options. Primary language is the language in which you communicate with the majority of your colleagues.
- English
- Armenian
- Azerbaijani
- Belarusian
- Georgian
- Kazakh
- Chinese
- Kyrgyz
- Latvian
- Lithuanian
- German
- Russian
- Uzbek
- Ukrainian
- Estonian
- French
- Spanish
- Polish
- Other
Does your company have a project management office (PMO) or a dedicated department responsible for project management and implementation?
- Yes
- No
What is the number of staff in this PMO/department?
- Less than 5 employees
- 5-9
- 10-24
- 25-49
- More than 50 employees
How would you assess the project management quality in your company?
Rate from 1 to 5 the quality of projects managed by your colleagues in the company (please provide your subjective opinion). The quality is higher when the number is higher.
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5

Please rate the level of project management processes maturity in your organization

“Absent” means that every time you encounter this aspect at work, you need to look for options on how to eliminate the difficulties. “Mature” means you know exactly what you need to do in this area.

Process	Absent	Low	Average	Mature
Communications
Change Management
Project Management Methodology
Project Planning
Resource Management
Risk Management
Cost Management

How do you share knowledge about projects within your company?
- We do not share this knowledge
- Periodic formal meetings
- Informal meetings with other managers
- Written project progress reports
- A built-in system of knowledge exchange based on the Project Management Office (formal events)
- Other

Current Employment

Please tell us a little about the nature of your business relationship with your current company.

Are you currently employed?*
The answer to this question will help eliminate questions that are irrelevant to you.
- Yes
- No
What is your current job title?*
How many full years have you worked for your current company?
Please enter a whole number.
What is the form of your business relationship with your company?
- Employment contract
- Contract work (project work)
- External consultant (engaged from another company)
What is your work mode?
- 100% office-based
- Completely remote work
- Hybrid (office-based at least one day per week)
How many projects are you managing at the moment?
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- More than five
How often do you spend more than 40 hours a week at work?
Spend more than 8 working hours per day on work duties
- I do not overwork
- One-two days a week
- I overwork every day
- Spend more than 8 working hours per day on work duties
How do you start your working day?
- Checking work chats
- Corporate emails reading
- Your personal learning and development
- Day planning
- Work meetings
- Reviewing previous day results
- Other
Have you considered leaving the project management profession in the last year?
- Yes, I was seriously thinking about it
- Yes, had a couple of thoughts
- No
Are you actively searching for a job right now?
- I actively respond to vacancy posts
- I have my CV published, I am ready to change my job if I am offered something
- I am not looking for a job, but I would like to change it
- I am not looking for a job and I am not ready to change it
What is important to you in your potential new job?
What will you pay specific attention to in your new job?
- Location
- Development opportunities
- Project sphere of my interest
- Corporate culture
- Career prospects and promotions
- Total income
- Strong team
- Work-life balance
- Other

Your General Experience

In this section, we would like to know more about your general work experience to date and how it relates to project management.

What is your total work experience?
Number of full years in your experience starting from your first job until now.
How would you rate your current qualification?
Your personal opinion.
- Intern
- Junior
- Middle
- Senior
- Lead
- Executive
How much experience do you have specifically in project management?
Number of full years in your project management experience.
Is project management your main profession?
Pertaining to the particular role you have now.
- Yes
- No
- I do not know
From what profession did you transfer to project management?
If you have project management education and then started working as a project manager, please skip this field. If you come from another field (analytics, design, software development, etc.), please indicate your previous profession.

Education

Please tell us about your education—where you studied and how you keep improving your competencies.

What is your education degree/level?
- I don’t have formal education
- Secondary School
- Lower Post-Secondary Vocational Education
- Incomplete Higher Education
- Higher (Bachelor)
- Higher (Master)
- Degree (Candidate/PhD/MBA/DBA/eMBA)
- Other
What is your major specialization?
If you have several diplomas, please indicate majors separated by commas.
In which country is the educational institution where you received your major specialization located?
Free input, we do not limit you to an external list.
Select the languages you can communicate and write in
Typically, these are language proficiency levels B1, B2, C1, C2.
- English
- Armenian
- Azerbaijani
- Belarusian
- Georgian
- Spanish
- Kazakh
- Chinese
- Kyrgyz
- Latvian
- Lithuanian
- German
- Russian
- Uzbek
- Estonian
- French
- Ukrainian
- Turkish
- Polish
- Other

What professional development tools have you used over the past year?
Please indicate next to each tool how often you use them.

Tool	Did not use	Daily	Weekly	Monthly	Rarely
Specialized literature
Free educational videos
Free trainings
Paid trainings
Professional communities/associations
Professional Conferences/Exhibitions
Profession-related channels/bloggers/experts
Podcasts
Profession-related email newsletters
Meetups/Online or offline meetings

Do you have any professional certifications, and if so, what are they?
Please specify the certificate names separated by commas. We are only interested in professional certifications (for example PMI, Agile, etc.), and not certificates of course completion. If you do not hold any professional certifications, please leave the field blank.
Have you completed any paid training in the last three years? If yes, what training have you completed?
Please indicate the training provider and the course name—for example, the Coursera course “Project Manager in IT”; if there are several of them, please indicate them separated by commas. If you have not received any paid training in the last three years, please leave the field blank.
Are you considering getting a professional certification in the next 12 months?
- No
- PRINCE2 (any)
- PMI (any)
- SCRUM
- SAFe (any)
- P3.express
- IPMA (any)
- Other
What professional book has had the greatest impact on you?
Please indicate the book author and title, or leave blank.
Which professional community do you consider most valuable to you?
Please provide a link to the community or leave the field blank. This could be a Telegram chat/channel, a Facebook group, LinkedIn page, or something else.
Please name an expert you follow and find useful
Please provide a link to his/her channel, group, or leave the field blank.

Side Projects

Modern technologies allow you not only to work in one role but also to take part in side projects, which can bring additional income and new knowledge. Tell us a little about them.

A side project is a project that is not related to your main place of work.

Do you have any side project?
A project you work on during your personal time.
- Yes
- No
What motivates you to take part in this side project?
Choose the reasons that truly capture your motivation.
- This is my hobby
- I do it for fun
- I do it to upgrade my skills
- I do it to make additional income
- I am eager to get acquainted with a new technology
- Other
Tell us more about your side project
Please briefly describe your side project – in just one or two sentences.
With whom are you implementing this project?
- Alone
- Together with a team of like-minded individuals
- Together with hired specialists
What is your role in this project?

Conclusion

First of all, we would like to thank you for your time! A big THANK YOU to you!
We hope you found this survey interesting.

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