Josh Vignona is an experienced Tampa, Florida, strategic consultant who works with companies of all sizes in developing and executing transformative business plans. Credentialed through the Project Management Institute (PMI), Josh Vignona has utilized its industry resources and certification programs.

In 2022, PMI launched a new Business Architect micro-credential within its Pmi Citizen Developer resource suite. The latter is a set of platform-agnostic educational materials that includes best practices, methodologies, and standards for the global industry. It consists of the original courses PMI Citizen Developer and PMI Citizen Developer Foundation.

With the Business Architect course, PMIs focus is on providing tools for applications that enable citizen development across organizations in an effective and scalable manner. It involves the process of garnering stakeholder collaboration within various organizational structures and their IT governance processes.

This micro-credential course meets an urgent need. Corporate IT departments are stretched thin, with the US facing a deficit of a half million software developers. Creating a system of citizen development provides a way of generating new workforce solutions that complement and augment existing IT protocols.