Development of Project Management Career Plan

Standards

Areas

• Supported standards and methodologies

  Project Management Institute (PMI)
  PMBOK Guide	—
  PMI Practice Standard for Estimating	—
  PMI Practice Standard for Earned Value Management	—
  PMI Practice Standard for Configuration Management	—
  PMI Practice Standard for Risk Management	—
  PMI Practice Standard for Work Breakdown Structure	—
  PMI Practice Standard for Scheduling	—
  PMI Standard for Portfolio Management	—
  PMI Standard for Program Management	—
  PMI Project Manager Development Competency Framework	Yes
  Organizational Project Management Maturity Model (OPM3®)	Yes

  UK Office of Government Commerce (OGC)
  PRINCE2 (Projects in Controlled Environments)	—
  MSP (Managing Successful Programmes)	—
  M_O_R (Management of Risks)	—
  P3M3 (Portfolio, Programme, and Project Management Maturity Model)	Yes
  P3O (Portfolio, Programme and Project Offices)	—
  MoP (Management of Portfolios)	—
  MoV (Management of Value)	—

  Scrum Alliance
  Scrum Methodology	Yes

  International Project Management Association (IPMA)
  ICB® IPMA Competence Baseline	Yes

• Areas: approach comprehensiveness

  Area	Comprehensiveness	Description
  Integration	★★★★★	Includes the processes required to ensure that the various elements of the project are properly coordinated.
  Scope		Includes the processes required to ensure that the project includes all the work required, and only the work required, to complete the project successfully.
  Time		Includes the processes required to ensure timely completion of the project.
  Cost		Includes the processes required to ensure that the project is completed within the approved budget.
  Quality		Includes the processes required to ensure that the project will satisfy the needs for which it was undertaken.
  Human Resource	★★★★★	Includes the processes required to make the most effective use of the people involved with the project.
  Communications	★★★★★	Includes the processes required to ensure timely and appropriate generation, collection, dissemination, storage, and ultimate disposition of project information.
  Risk		Systematic process of identifying, analyzing, and responding to project risks. It includes maximizing the probability and consequences of positive events and minimizing the probability and consequences of adverse events to project objectives.
  Procurement		Includes the processes required to acquire goods and services from outside the performing organization to attain project scope.
  EHS		Involves processes related to work safety, health and environment, including specific regulations.
  Strategic Planning	★★★★	Involves the processes which link projects with corporate strategy through the indicators of the Balanced Scorecard's goals.

Additional Information Top ↑

For an effective project management it is required to domain the technical expertise, the human skills and the capacity do manage. The last ones are not commonly explicit in the descriptions of the careers. The reason lies in the fact that the project management profession is not, in most cases, officially recognized in the corporate world. Even worse, most organizations do not know the different skills that are needed to execute projects successfully.

Another fact is that organizations which provide a very well defined professional careers, have more and better chances to develop and retain their talent.

After conducting extensive research involving over 5,000 professionals of project, program and portfolio management, PMI® used the results to create the competency profiles on projects to help organizations to better define the careers of its projects professionals.

"Organizations that offer project managers a defined career ladder are often more successful at retaining their project management talent." - Project Management Institute

The PMI Career Framework is available without any costs to organizations and it has all the descriptions of the different functions in the project area and identifies the skills found in the successful professionals categorized by each level of expertise.

This ensures the proper development of skills that are necessary to successfully execute projects and adjust the profiles required to a guide development in order to have the competence improvement  of the organization’s projects professionals.

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