PMI Qualitative Report Reaction to Statements Supporting the Value Proposition

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Certification Update
28 January 2007
Presented by Betsy Redden PMP CAPM Examination
Developer Tom Bates, MBA Certifications
Standards Supervisor

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Worldwide, organizations will embrace, value and
utilize project management and attribute their
success to it. PMI Vision Statement
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Discussion Points

• Background on PMI Certification Practices
  Processes
• PMI Certification Program
• PMP
• CAPM
• PgMPSM
• Maintaining Your Credential

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• Background on PMI
• Certification Practices and Processes

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Certification Program Governance

• Certification Governance Council (CGC)
  re-chartered in 2005 to assume increased
  responsibility for Certification Program
• An administratively independent body reporting to
  the PMI Board via the Governance Committee
• Responsible for identifying and supporting
  implementation of strategic objectives as
  specifically related to the Certification Program
  
• Representative of credentialed populations

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Global Practices and Acceptance

• ISO 9001 certified
• Certification Department - first of its kind
• Successfully passed routine audit Q1 06
• ISO 17024 accreditation
• Awarded to PMI in 2006
• ISO is the International Standard Organization, a
  fair, impartial and globally recognised
  accreditation body

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Role Delineation Study First-ever Regional-based
Study

• 5 regional focus groups held to gather
  information

• Web-based survey instrument developed and
  launched globally to validate regional findings
• A global certification standard that serves as
  the basis for the revised exam
• New exam questions developed based on current PM
  reference texts and mapped to ensure sufficient
  questions to assure candidate knowledgeable in
  areas identified as necessary for PMPs

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PMP Examination SpecificationGlobal
Certification Standard

• Why create an exam specification?
• Provides percent of questions/domain on exam
• Used by trainers to guide instructional design
• Used by students to guide their studies
• Critical to ensure exam has content validity
• Content validity does the exam evaluate the
  knowledge or skill required to function as a
  practitioner in the field?

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PMP Examination Specification

• Resulted from market research project
• Establishes the blueprint for exam construction
• Identify domains, tasks, knowledge and skills
• Use psychometrically-sound methodologies

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PMP Examination Specification Examination
Blueprint
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• Questions about
• Certification
• Practices Processes?

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Overview PMI Certification Program
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Data on the Value of Certification PMIs
Executive Survey on Project Management Study

• Findings from the 2004 survey showed
• 26 of executives reported using "trained,
  certified project managers" to lead new projects
• increased to 40 in 2005
• Findings from the 2005 survey showed
• 61 of executives consider certifications
  "somewhat useful" or "very useful" in evaluating
  employees' abilities at managing projects

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Data on the Value of CertificationKPMG Global IT
Project Management Survey (2005)

• Included "qualified PMs" as a factor that exists
  in organizations with lower project failure
  rates
• Complete profile of these organizations is
• Have PMO that manages all projects
• Report to board on major projects
• Have formal benefits tracking process
• Have formally qualified PMs
• Always perform rigorous risk assessment

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Interest in the PMP PMP Growth Since 1984
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Demand for Project Managers

• PMI performed a global survey of senior corporate
  executives in 2004
• 73 of these executives currently employ
  professional project managers
• 92 concur that utilizing professionalproject
  managers is an effective way to ensure success

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PMI Certifications

• Project Management Professional (PMP)
• Global community of over 200,000
• Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM)
  
• Over 1,500 people worldwide have attained
• More than 3,500 approved and preparing to sit for
  the exam
• NEW Program Management Professional (PgMPSM)
• Developed for practitioners who manage programs
• Available in 2007
• OPM3 ProductSuite certification
• Nearly 30 certified since launch in June 2006
• For internal and external service providers
  (professionals) who perform assessment and
  consulting services

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PMIs Certification Program
Program 1 PgMP overseeing
multiple projects
Project 1 PMP and multiple CAPMs
OPM3 ProductSuite Certification
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Defining Programs and Projects
Projects are temporary, meaning they have a
definite beginning and end, and they are
undertaken to create a unique product, service or
result. Programs a group of related projects
managed in a coordinated way to obtain strategic
benefits and control not available from managing
them individually.
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Career Path

• Project management skills are an imperative for
  improving operational performance and customer
  satisfaction.
• Having a career path is an important part of
  employee retention and it reflects directly on
  the bottom line.
• Organizations are embracing credentials in their
  professional development and performance
  appraisal processes.

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Project Management Professional (PMP)
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Who Can Benefit by Obtaining a PMP Credential?

• Practitioners who
• Are responsible for all aspects of the project
  for the life of the project
• Lead and direct cross-functional teams to deliver
  projects
• Demonstrate sufficient knowledge and experience
  to apply a methodology to projects

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PMP Certificants Who Are They?
From the 2005 Member Satisfaction Survey...  

• 45 work in IT/IS
• 85 have at least 5 years of project management
  experience
• 62 are program or project managers

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PMP Benefits to Project Teams

• Enhances communications among project peers
• Makes project team more marketable/viable to
  potential clients
• Helps organization achieve more accurate
  assessment of the scope of their project needs
• Time allocated more efficiently assessing needs
  prior to project initiation, less time on
  administration
• Increases likelihood of projects being
  successfully managed within the triple constraints

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PMI Salary Survey Compensation Rises With PMP
Source PMIs Project Management Salary Survey
Fourth Edition, for PMP holders based in the US.
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What are the PMP Eligibility Requirements?
Educational Background Bachelors degree or the
global equivalent AND Project Management
Education 35 contact hours of formal
education AND Project Management
Experience Within the last 8 consecutive years,
4,500 hours or a minimum 36 months, of unique and
non-overlapping project management experience
spent leading and directing project tasks.
Eligibility requirements are different for
candidates who do not hold a bachelors degree or
the global equivalent
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How Do I Prepare for the PMP Examination?

• Study the following project management content
  areas

• Communications Management
• Cost Management
• Quality Management
• Risk Management
• Human Resources Management

• Procurement Management
• Scope Management
• Integration Management
• Time Management

• Become familiar with PMP Examination
  Specification

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• Questions about the
• PMP credential?

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Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM)
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Who Can Benefit by Obtaining a CAPM Credential?

• Project team members who wish to demonstrate
  their knowledge of project management processes
  and lexicon used by most project managers
• Project management practitioners seeking to
  advance their careers in project management
• Qualified undergraduate and graduate students
  with an interest in project management

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CAPM Certificants Who Are They?
Overall, CAPM certificants can be considered to
have fundamental project management knowledge

• On average, 5 years of project management
  experience
• About 20 hold titles of project coordinator,
  functional manager or project engineer

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CAPM Benefits to Project Teams

• Allows project team members to speak the same
  language
• Effective communication can be like a technical
  skill
• How to write a project plan
• How to set up a schedule
• These processes are very different from managing
  a project.
• Fundamental understanding of project management
  processes (based on the PMBOK Guide ? Third
  Edition)

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What are the CAPM Eligibility Requirements?
Educational Background Bachelors or Associates
degree or High school diploma, or the global
equivalent AND Option 1 Project Management
Education 23 contact hours of formal
education OR Option 2 Project Management
Experience 1,500 hours of work on a project team
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How Do I Prepare for the CAPM Examination?

• A Guide to the Project Management Body of
  Knowledge (PMBOK Guide) Third Edition
• Prep courses offered by PMI Registered Education
  Providers (R.E.P.s), Component organizations, or
  other trainers
• University/college academic and continuing
  education programs

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Project Tasks and Roles

• CAPM

• PMP

• Tasks concentrated in project integration, time,
  scope, and communication management

• Responsible for leading and directing project
  tasks

• Responsible for overall project success

• Responsible for individual project tasks

• Manages projects to stay within specified scope,
  budget and timeline

• Heavily involved in project plan execution

• Some assume full, rather than partial
  responsibility for project tasks

• Responsible for individual projects

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• Questions about the
• CAPM credential?

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Program Management Professional (PgMPSM)
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Program Management Professional (PgMPSM)

• The role of a program manager is to
• Coordinate the management of multiple related
  projects
• Lead and direct constituent project managers
• Make and implement decisions that accomplish
  strategic objectives

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Program Management Competence Evaluation

• 3-step assessment process
• Review of candidates work experience
• Multiple-choice exam
• Multi-rater assessment

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What are the PgMPEligibility Requirements?

• Educational Background
• Bachelors degree or the global equivalent
• AND
• Experience
• Minimum 4 years project management experience,
  and
• Minimum 4 years program management experience
• Project and program management experience must
  have been accrued over the last 15 consecutive
  years

Eligibility requirements are different for
candidates who do not hold a bachelors degree or
the global equivalent
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PgMP Benefits to Project Teams
Individuals who attain the Program Management
Professional credential bring value to PMOs by

• Aligning multiple projects to optimize
  achievement of program goals
• Providing a more comprehensive approach to
  resource allocation
• Increasing support for accomplishment of
  organizational project management maturity

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Project Tasks and Roles

• PMP

• PgMP

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• Questions about the
• PgMP credential?

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• Maintaining Your Credential

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Continuing Certification Requirements (CCR)

• Rationale
• Enhance ongoing professional development of
  certificants
• Encourage and recognize individualized learning
  opportunities
• Offer a standardized and objective mechanism for
  attaining and recording professional development
  activities
• Sustain the PMP as a globally recognized
  credential
• Participation
• PMPs who wish to renew and maintain their PMP
  Credential

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How are the requirements met?

• Participants earn Professional Development Units
  (PDUs)
• Education, work related activities, and
  volunteerism PDUs
• PDU Equal to one hour in a structured learning
  activity

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CCR Renewal Process

• Renewal application PMP Code of Professional
  Conduct
• Renewal Fees
• 60 (US) for members
• 150 (US) for non-members

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Thank you for your attendance and participation

• For more information
• Certification Program brochure
• CAPM, PMP and PgMP Handbooks
• CCR Handbook
• www.pmi.org follow link to Certification
  Program

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Any Questions?
Continuing Certification Requirements
(CCR) Contact Tom Bates, Certifications
Standards Supervisor at tom.bates_at_pmi.org
PMP CAPM Contact Betsy Redden, PMP CAPM
Examination Developer at betsy.redden_at_pmi.org
PgMP Contact Elisa Kahn-Ellis Program
Management Examination Developer at
elisa.kahn-ellis_at_pmi.org