PMI as an organization is useful and membership demonstrates a commitment to staying up with industry best practice; however, I will openly state that the PMP itself has become an irritant and created a false hiring environment. Most contractors seem to feel every project must have a PM assigned who has a PMP. Most employers seem to feel that this is a necessary requirement. Between this and the availability of PMP training at most community colleges, we are now faced with a burgeoning population of largely unskilled "Project Managers" who are not worth their weight in weekly reports. They generally fail to understand true project ownership, are perfectly willing to allow projects to fail so long as they can point the finger, and add little more than an over-inflated rate to my billings. Companies need to find more rigorous qualifications and interview techniques and stop relying on the PMP as a qualifer. By relying primarilly on the PMP as a qualifier, as employers, we are participating in cost inflation that does not bring value to our objectives.