Sunday, March 05, 2006

PMI to Introduce Program Manager Credential in 2006

As reported in PMForum last week, Iain Fraser, PMI's Chair, discussed PMI's key initiatives for 2006 at their Asia Pacific Global Congress.

Most importantly, he announced that PMI will be introducing a new certification for program management to go along with the current PMP and CAPM certifications.

The new standards for program and portfolio management will be released at PMI's European Global Congress in Madrid in May.

For more about Iain Fraser's comments, read on...

PMFORUM, Connecting the World of Project Management PMFORUM Breaking News: PMI CHAIR IAIN FRASER ANNOUNCES PRIORITIES FOR 2006

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posted by Jerry Manas @ 9:56 PM, Read More...  
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At 12:02 AM, Anonymous Garry L. Booker said...

Jerry,

Interesting, but it raises a few questions. PMI has seemingly gone to great lengths to distinguish program management from project portfolio manaagement. OPM3 is another example of this. Will PPM be part of the program management credential, or will it be separate, or will there be no PPM credential?

I look forward to reading the new standards. I'm particularly interested in PMI's standards regarding operations (non-projects) since operations are apparently part of the definition of a program.

/Garry

 
At 8:09 PM, Blogger Jerry Manas said...

Garry, I wondered the same thing when I saw the news about the program certification. A portfolio certification was conspicuously missing.

I'll have to do some digging. I suspect that since portfolio management had long been the realm of financial executives and not project managers, it represents a new audience for PMI.

While we had quite a few portfolio management experts developing the standard, perhaps PMI feels they want to start with a program management certification, as it's a closer cousin of project management. This is just speculation, but it would make sense.

I think at some point in the not too distant future, we'll see a PPM certification from PMI.

By the way, the program standard does have some text on operations and governance if I recall. I know it primarily focuses on programs in the context of managing a group of related projects (as opposed to a "mega project"), although it acknowledges the many uses of the word "program" in practice.

 
At 9:15 PM, Anonymous Garry L. Booker said...

Very interesting. I wonder if PMI will ever experience any push-back regarding the proliferation of certifications, standards and maturity models. It seems like it might become complicated, espeically for a Small Business constituency. Maybe that's just my perception.

/Garry

 

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