aPRO Background and History
For years, William Duncan, primary author of the original PMBOK® Guide, used an organizational assessment to improve the performance of his clients' projects, and of their organizations. He called the assessment Organizational Competence in Project Management, or OCiPM. On a rainy day in Shanghai in 2006, Duncan and Goff discussed their experience with organizational PM Performance improvement models. As an outcome, they and other members of asapm's leadership team, including president Lew Ireland, decided that a version of Duncan's OCiPM assessment would be a perfect complement to asapm's Performance Competence-based assessment and certification of individuals.
We launched a project feasibility study. Beginning with an intensive meeting in Boston, Duncan, Lew Ireland and Stacy Goff explored adapting Duncan's OCiPM model to asapm's PM Performance Competence model. With the resulting conceptual framework in place, asapm had enough information to engage a full team in the new product's development.
Headed by Project Manager Tim Jaques, the asapm aPRO team includes (alphabetically) Nigel Blampied, William Duncan, Dino Eliadis, Scott Freauf, Stacy Goff, Brent Hansen, Lew Ireland, Dennis Milroy, Tom Mochal, and Matt Piazza. Very early in the project, we discussed "branding" the project and its product with asapm's PM Performance theme; in an instant of inspiration, Duncan coined the new name: aPRO: asapm Performance Rated Organization.
We worked as an extended virtual team, and met via technology every several weeks to evaluate, contribute, analyze and produce draft after draft. We met in person twice, once in July 2009 in Colorado Springs, and a final review meeting in December 2009 in Los Angeles. The December meeting triggered the "Go Live" planned rollout of the new aPRO standard.
From mid-December 2009 until February 2010, the draft Standard was widely circulated as a Public Exposure Draft, to solicit comments and suggestions for improvement. A plethora of comments and praise showed us that the aPRO approach already had a following, all waiting for for the new Standard to "Go Live" April 5.
If you wish to participate in the "Go Live" assessments as an Assessor, contact Tim Jaques, our aPRO Recognized Assessor Coordinator.
If you wish to participate in aPRO as an Assessed Organization, contact Dino Eliadis, our Assessments Manager.
So there you have the aPRO background. Now watch us make history!
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