USA's First Level C Project Managers
Certified in Performance Competency!
4th Quarter, 2007 update by Bill Duncan
New Certificants
We are pleased to announce the identities of the two individuals who were recently certified as asapm Certified Project Practitioners (aCPP) at Level C, Project Manager. They are Alex S. Brown of Belle Mead, NJ and George Pasieka of Winnipeg. Please join us in congratulating them!
IPMA Relationship Recognized!
We are also pleased to announce that we have reached agreement in principle with IPMA about the structure of our certification program, specifically our use of the performance based competency standards developed by the Global Alliance for Project Performance Standards (GAPPS). The PMCert Board felt that the 100% compliance requirement of the GAPPS standard was a necessary addition to satisfy the USA market, and IPMA officials have agreed. As a result, we can return to promoting our program as part of IPMA’s Four Level Certification program (4-L-C).
IPMA has certified the competence of more project managers than any other organization, so we are pleased and proud to be part of the IPMA community!
This also means that Alex and George will be included on IPMA’s website as having been certified at Level C!
Next Round of Interviews
We had originally planned to hold certification interviews in October, but we ran into some logistical problems and have been forced to reschedule them until Q1 of 2008. What was the problem? See below …
Call for Assessors
We currently have four qualified assessors. Clearly, that is not enough to serve the number of people in the USA interested in our program. In addition, flying the assessors around the country starts to get expensive, and also means that the assessment fees would have to be quite high in order to cover travel costs. One obstacle to expanding our number of assessors is the fact that you must first be assessed as competent before you can assess others.
So we are looking to expand our numbers by offering FREE assessments for a limited time to a limited number of individuals, in exchange for their paid services as qualified assessors. If you have actively managed projects at some point during the past 10 years, please contact Bill Duncan at: info(at)pmcert to see if you are eligible. Note: this email link is a competence test! We have intentionally disguised it, instead of making it an automatic link, to attempt to avoid spammers.
Going to Project Summit in Boston?
Speaking of Bill Duncan, he will be speaking at the Project Summit conference in Boston October 29-31. Bill will be speaking about performance based competency assessment at 3:15 pm on Monday, October 29. asapm is a sponsor of this event.
Are you a Program Manager?
Some people seem to think that programs are just big projects, but program managers know better. If you are a program manager, you may be interested to know that asapm and GAPPS are currently working on a performance based competency framework for program managers. If you are interested in contributing to or reviewing the draft document, please contact Bill. As with the GAPPS project manager framework, this program manager framework will be integrated with IPMA’s processes to support our Level A assessment offering which we plan for late 2008.
PMCert Website
Some of the information on our PMCert website has not been updated to reflect the latest changes in our offerings. We are working hard to bring the website into line with the program realities. Please be patient!
For More Information
Explore the PMCert website for more information about certifying your PM Competence; review the asapm website for tools and insights into developing PM Competence.
Get NCB
The USA-NCB (USA's National Competence Baseline) for development and assessment of competent project managers has been updated to align with IPMA's latest ICB, release 3.0. Click here to link to our email request page for a link to download the official release of USA-NCB, version 1.5, in Adobe Acrobat format (pdf, 400K).
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