PMCert Certification Program Status
4th Quarter, 2006 update by Bill Duncan
PMCert Board of Directors Established
PMCert, asapm's semi-autonomous certification body, has begun operations with a Board of Directors comprised of three asapm-affiliated members and one independent member to represent the project management profession and the general public. The Board members are:
- Tom Carter. Tom is currently Director of Consulting at R3D Information and Technology Corporation. He also serves as director of the Masters Degree in Project and Program Management at Brandeis University's Rabb School of Continuing and Professional Studies.
Previously, Tom was Vice President of Project Management Practices at Fidelity Investments.
- Bill Duncan. asapm's former Director of Standards, Bill chairs the PMCert group. In addition to heading Project Management Partners in Lexington, MA, his business card says that he is "Leading Expert" for another company, PSM Consulting in Moscow, Russia.
- Paul Leonard. Paul is PMCert's public member. He is a registered Professional Engineer doing part-time consulting after retiring from the Army as a Colonel. He is also a Chaplain, so we expect him to keep the other Board members on the straight and narrow.
- Vinatha Swaminathan. Vinatha is a program manager for Eaton Corporation, a Fortune 500 company. She is responsible for the IT aspects of Eaton's extensive mergers and acquisitions program.
First Assessors Appointed
IPMA's Certification Validation Management Board (CVMB) approved all four of PMCert's nominees as First Assessors for the Level B, Senior Project Manager, program. The USA's First PM Assessors are:
- Kevin Aguanno. Kevin is an IBM Certified Senior Project Manager. He specializes in managing complex application development and systems integration projects.
- Dennis Ballow. Dennis is currently an independent project management consultant. He spent the bulk of his career in project management with Hewlett-Packard and Agilent Technologies.
- Ron McCandless. Ron is a Senior Project Manager for McGinley and Associates. He is currently working on a major project for the US Federal Court System.
- Ron Waller. Ron is semi-retired from a long career at Johnson Controls where he was project manager for numerous projects including several in the $25-50 million range.
Level D Program Underway
PMCert has received approval from IPMA of its database of exam questions for Level D. Several in-house offerings have resulted in 40 individuals attaining IPMA Level D® certificates. Several other in-house offerings are being discussed, and an open exam schedule should be available for the next newsletter.
Trainer Advsory Committee Being Formed
PMCert is in the process of contacting project management trainers to serve on an advisory board for the Level D exam. One of the important aspects of PMCert's approach to Level D is to keep the exam independent of any specific project management approach or lexicon. In this way, there should be no need for special exam preparation courses thus saving huge amounts of time and money for both certificants and their employers. Anyone who is interested in becoming a member of the Level D Advisory Board (LDAB) should contact Bill Duncan at PMCert.
GAPPS Framework Released
The Global Alliance for Project Performance Standards (GAPPS) has just released its first official framework after an extended public review. The document is entitled "A Framework for Performance Based Competence Standards for Global Level 1 and 2 Project Managers." Quite a mouthful, no? asapm is a subscriber to the GAPPS initiative and Bill Duncan has been an active participant. PMCert is investigating the use of the GAPPS framework with the Level B Certification.
Level B Program Available Soon
Bill Duncan assures us that the Level B program is still on track to do its first assessments during Q2 of 2006. The application process is being updated and simplified in parallel with development of the details of the assessment process. The PMCert Board recently approved a "special, one-time, introductory kick-off offer" that will provide an estimated 50% discount for an organization that is willing to put a minimum of 6 people through the Level B assessment. For details and conditions, contact PMCert concerning B Cert Applications.
Get NCB
The USA-NCB (USA's National Competence Baseline) for development and assessment of competent project managers has been updated to better align with IPMA's 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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