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		<title>Performance Based Competency</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 13:42:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Duncan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been getting a fair number of questions recently about &#8220;performance based competencies,&#8221; and it&#8217;s been quite a while since I posted anything here, so I decided to kill two birds with one stone and post something on the topic. The following text is adapted from the GAPPS Project Manager Framework. Competent comes from the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More on Project Success</title>
		<link>http://asapm.org/blog/?p=64</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 03:25:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Duncan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A slightly edited version of a recent LinkedIn post &#8230; this all started with a question that asked, &#8220;is scope, cost, and schedule enough to determine &#8216;project success.&#8217;&#8221; I responded with my usual position that &#8220;project success&#8221; is not an absolute, and that there were two dimensions to project success: project management success and product [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Art or Science?</title>
		<link>http://asapm.org/blog/?p=60</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Dec 2010 13:03:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Duncan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Certification Program Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Licensing of Project Managers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once again, from a LinkedIn discussion &#8230; someone posted a question. &#8220;Is project management an art or a science?&#8221; There were nearly 30 comments, most of which argued &#8220;both,&#8221; and most of which leapt right into the discussion without bothering to define their terms. So here is my post: As is my wont, I checked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are Project Managers Risk Averse?</title>
		<link>http://asapm.org/blog/?p=58</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Dec 2010 18:33:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Duncan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fun discussion over on LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/groupItem?view=&#38;gid=37888&#38;type=member&#38;item=37008478&#38;commentID=27691092&#38;report%2Esuccess=8ULbKyXO6NDvmoK7o030UNOYGZKrvdhBhypZ_w8EpQrrQI-BBjkmxwkEOwBjLE28YyDIxcyEO7_TA_giuRN#commentID_27691092 Scroll down past the first 10-15 responses.]]></description>
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		<title>Ten &#8220;New&#8221; Rules</title>
		<link>http://asapm.org/blog/?p=54</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Oct 2010 18:40:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Duncan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hal Macomber writes a lot of good stuff about soft skills in project management. Here&#8217;s a link to one of his posts that I like. Stop by and tell him I said, &#8220;hi.&#8221; http://www.reformingprojectmanagement.com/lenses/project-leadership/ten-new-rules-for-project-managers/ Why did I put &#8220;new&#8221; in quotes? Because there really isn&#8217;t much that&#8217;s new in Hal&#8217;s list. These are all things [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GAPPS Program Manager Standard</title>
		<link>http://asapm.org/blog/?p=50</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Sep 2010 19:50:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Duncan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[GAPPS is the Global Alliance for Project Performance Standards. asapm is a founding member of GAPPS, and we continue to be active in supporting their standards development efforts. We also use their standards as part of our implementation of IPMA&#8217;s Four-Level-Certification (4-L-C) Program. GAPPS has recently released an Exposure Draft of a performance-based competency standard [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are activities part of the WBS?</title>
		<link>http://asapm.org/blog/?p=48</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 02:09:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Duncan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Technical Elements]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I got an email earlier today from an asapm member who wanted an answer to the title questions above. I told him “yes,” and he then quoted my words from the 1996 version of A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge back to me: “The activity list must include all activities which will be performed on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The rush to licensure</title>
		<link>http://asapm.org/blog/?p=46</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jul 2010 02:08:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Duncan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Licensing of Project Managers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The idea of licensed project managers has been discussed off-and-on for nearly 30 years now. With the Association of Project Managers in the UK apparently on the verge of getting approval from the British government to begin chartering project management, the discussions are heating up again. In case you’re not familiar with the British system, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why do we repeat our mistakes?</title>
		<link>http://asapm.org/blog/?p=43</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 02:07:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Duncan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Understanding Competence]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to research, it’s because we don’t realize we’re making mistakes. http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/20/the-anosognosics-dilemma-1/?ref=global-home Here’s a quote from the above to whet your appetite: “[It's] not just that people said these positive things about themselves, but they really, really believed them. Which led to my observation: if you’re incompetent, you can’t know you’re incompetent.” This would seem to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can’t anybody here play this game?</title>
		<link>http://asapm.org/blog/?p=41</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 02:06:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Duncan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Understanding Competence]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My Dad always rooted for the underdog. As a result, I hated Casey Stengel and the Yankee’s with a passion … until Casey took over the hopelessly inept Mets, and then he became one of my favorites. The quote above dates from his experience managing the new New York team in its first year. If [...]]]></description>
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