Transcript PMI Project Manager Competency Development Framework Overview

PMO PANEL DISCUSSION:
APPROACHES TO
COMPETENCY DEVELOPMENT
FOR PROJECT MANAGERS
PMI Central Ohio Chapter
PMO LIG Meeting August 4, 2010
TODAY’S FORMAT
Overview of PMI’s PM Competency Development
Framework Standard - ~5 minutes
 Panel Discussion + Q&A ~ 55 with a 1PM hard
stop
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PMCD FRAMEWORK – INDIVIDUAL
EXAMPLE
PMI’S 3 DIMENSIONS OF
COMPETENCE
Knowledge – passing an appropriate credentialed
assessment – PMP or equivalent
 Performance – assessment of project outcomes
 Personal – assessment of project manager’s
behavior
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PMI’S ELEMENTS OF PROJECT
PERFORMANCE COMPETENCE
1.0
Initiating a
Project
2.0
Planning
5.0 Closing
PM
4.0
Monitoring
and
Controlling
3.0
Executing
PERFORMANCE COMPETENCE
EXAMPLE
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Element 1.3 High-level risks, assumptions, and
constraints are understood
Performance Criteria
Types of Evidence
.1 Establishes the project’s
high-level assumptions and
constraints
Documented assumptions and
constraints
.2 Identifies, qualifies and
quantifies the project’s highlevel risks
Risk register containing
identified, qualified and
quantified high-level risks
PMI’S ELEMENTS OF PERSONAL
COMPETENCE
Professionalis
m
Effectiveness
Communicating
Personal
Competencies
Cognitive Ability
Leading
Managing
PERSONAL COMPETENCE
LEADERSHIP EXAMPLE
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Element 7.1 Creates a team environment that
promotes high performance
Performance Criteria
Types of Evidence
.1 Expresses positive
expectations of team
Documented feedback from
team on: recognizing
abilities, supporting decision
making, setting positive
expectations
.2 Promotes team learning and
advocates professional and
personal development
Individual development
plans
Funding for development
Documented feedback from
team
Documentation of new skills
gained by team members
PMI’S COMPETENCE DEVELOPMENT
PROCESS
Assess
performance
Prepare
competence
development
plan
Implement then
reassess
Useful examples of assessment rigor, applications,
development plans, and ways of addressing
development needs are in the PMCDF Standard.
PMO CONSIDERATIONS &
CHALLENGES
PM ‘ownership’ in a
matrix environment
 Integrating
organizational and
industry competencies
 Training programs
 HR coordination
 Sustainable
development
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And others……..
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Now….let’s hear from
our panelists
FOR MORE INFORMATION
PMI.ORG/bookstore
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Project Manager
Competency
Development
Framework Second
Editions, 2007, PMI
Global Standard –
Member price: $39.95