Project/Program Manager Competency Development Workshop
Project/Program Manager COMPETENCY development workshop,
University of Maryland, Washington, DC,
October 2009
The Global Alliance for Project Performance Standards (GAPPS) has announced that it will be conducting its next workshop in the Washington, DC area in the USA. The US workshop has been scheduled to allow for more participation by US Government Agencies. The workshop will be held during 23 to 25 October, 2009 in the Glenn L. Martin Engineering Building at the University of Maryland, Washington DC, USA.
GAPPS is a group of highly respected global professionals who have developed a set of Project and Program Manager COMPETENCY standards. This group was formed to fill a need for a global organization to facilitate mutual recognition and transferability of project management qualifications. Essentially, GAPPS sees itself as developing “the Linux of project performance standards”. For more information, visit http://www.globalpmstandards.org/about-us/general/about-us/.
GAPPS standards are INDEPENDENT of any specific Body of Knowledge (i.e. PMI’s PMBOK) or Methodology (i.e. APM’s PRINCE2) and are freely available through “open source” or “creative commons” licensing. (Meaning anyone can download them at no cost, use them as is or adapt or improve on them, with few constraints or limitations)
To download the project manager competency standards, click on http://www.globalpmstandards.org/listing/project-manager-standards.
GAPPS has also announced that program manager competency standards should be on the internet within the coming month or so. (Pay special attention to the copyright agreement on page 2)
US Corporate and Government representatives are invited to participate in the October workshop, to contribute to the further development of the project and program management competency standards and/or benchmark existing bodies of knowledge (i.e. GAO-09-3SP) or competencies (i.e. http://www.federalpm.com/articles/pm_comp.php) against those already developed by GAPPS.
For more information about the October GAPPS meeting in the USA please contact secretariat@globalpmstandards.org.
Sep 1st, 2009 at 11:03 pm
Thanks Dr. Paul! Will you be there, and can you give us some insight after the event to tell us about it?
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Sep 1st, 2009 at 11:59 pm
Yes, as I am on the GAPPS BoD, I will definitely be there…..
And as these are all WORKSHOPS, what we plan on doing is to put the finishing touches on the PROGRAM manager competency standards as we hope to be publishing them for PUBLIC REVIEW AND COMMENT before the end of 2009.
So we are encouraging experienced PROGRAM managers to join in the discussions, and add your 2 cents worth to what we’ve done over the past 3 or 4 years….. Understanding also that because of the workshop format, there are not many presentations…. People jump in and actually do a lot of productive things….. And we have a lot of fun at night…….
To get a flavor of what we are doing, you may find it interesting to see the prior research we have done just to define WHAT the definition of a “PROGRAM” is. http://www.globalpmstandards.org/downloads/program-manager-standards/GAPPS_Program_Types.pdf
As with so many other things related to project management, when we started doing the initial research, we discovered that there were many definitions of “program”. Not only are there many definitions, but where the person stands as a stakeholder may result in very different definitions applying.
Because this is a self funded effort, and the deliverables we create are freely available under “Creative Commons” licensing, there is a nominal fee to participate in these workshops.
And to make everyone feel comfortable, yes, even those of us on the BoD have to pay…… (Not only that, but myself and several of the other BoD members also have to pay for our flights from Australia, Indonesia and South Africa to participate!!!)
Bottom line- this is DEFINITELY not PMI!!!
BR,
Dr. PDG, Jakarta, Indonesia
http://www.getpmcertified.com
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Sep 2nd, 2009 at 9:32 am
I know there are a lot of beginners here, but you will be welcome as well. As Paul notes, these are WORKING sessions, and we will find a way for you to contribute. If you lack program management experience, it might be possible to start the review of the project manager standards early, or begin work on a sponsor standard … a team member standard … lots of possibilities.
Unfortunately, I expect to be in Kuwait that week, but I may be able to connect via Skype or somesuch.
Duncan
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Sep 6th, 2009 at 11:53 am
If any media is available afterwards…video, audio, pdf’s, etc. it would be great to link to them from here so people can be engaged, even if they can’t be directly involved.
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