Comments on: John P. Reiling: Is the PMP certification enough? http://www.pmhub.net/wp/2009/10/john-p-reiling-is-the-pmp-certification-enough/ Project Management Certification - CAPM, PMP, PgMP, PMI-SP, PMI-RMP Thu, 02 Feb 2012 04:25:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Dr. Paul D. Giammalvo http://www.pmhub.net/wp/2009/10/john-p-reiling-is-the-pmp-certification-enough/comment-page-1/#comment-464 Dr. Paul D. Giammalvo Sat, 10 Oct 2009 02:49:39 +0000 http://pmhub.net/wp/?p=1156#comment-464 Hi John, Many of our clients (mostly Fortune 500 oil, gas, mining and telecoms, along with a few IT companies) were "early adopters" of the PMP and now we see them moving towards the much more advanced certifications offered by AACE http://www.aacei.org/certification/ along with an almost universal focus now on building or developing COMPETENT project managers. ALL of the major telecoms in particular are quickly beginning to recognize or admit that the PMP was nothing more than an entry level credential, and having 2,000 or 3,000 PMP's has NOT resulted in any better project management. Yes, having all those PMP's has raised the awareness of what project management is, but as yet, few clients fully realize what project management can and CANNOT do for an organization. Which is why we prefer the fully integrated approach that AACE offers, where they are (to my knowledge) the only organization which has a methodology that fully integrates asset management, operations management and project management into a single, coherent approach. http://www.aacei.org/tcm/ More importantly, AACE, unlike PMI, has put their TCM Framework (equivalent to PMI's PMBOK)and their Recommended Practices into the "public domain" at NO COST. Another organization well worth looking into is the Global Alliance for Project Performance Standards. Here again, a group of well known and highly respected global practitioners has banded together to create project and program manager COMPETENCY standards, again, putting them into the public domain under creative commons or open source licensing, making them available at no cost. http://www.globalpmstandards.org/project-manager-standards/general/download-latest-update/ Bottom line there are profound changes happening and the move towards open source licensing of the knowledge is helping the practice of project management become less dependent upon any single professional organization. BR, Dr. PDG, from Singapore http://www.getpmcertified.com Hi John,
Many of our clients (mostly Fortune 500 oil, gas, mining and telecoms, along with a few IT companies) were “early adopters” of the PMP and now we see them moving towards the much more advanced certifications offered by AACE http://www.aacei.org/certification/ along with an almost universal focus now on building or developing COMPETENT project managers.

ALL of the major telecoms in particular are quickly beginning to recognize or admit that the PMP was nothing more than an entry level credential, and having 2,000 or 3,000 PMP’s has NOT resulted in any better project management. Yes, having all those PMP’s has raised the awareness of what project management is, but as yet, few clients fully realize what project management can and CANNOT do for an organization.

Which is why we prefer the fully integrated approach that AACE offers, where they are (to my knowledge) the only organization which has a methodology that fully integrates asset management, operations management and project management into a single, coherent approach. http://www.aacei.org/tcm/

More importantly, AACE, unlike PMI, has put their TCM Framework (equivalent to PMI’s PMBOK)and their Recommended Practices into the “public domain” at NO COST.

Another organization well worth looking into is the Global Alliance for Project Performance Standards. Here again, a group of well known and highly respected global practitioners has banded together to create project and program manager COMPETENCY standards, again, putting them into the public domain under creative commons or open source licensing, making them available at no cost. http://www.globalpmstandards.org/project-manager-standards/general/download-latest-update/

Bottom line there are profound changes happening and the move towards open source licensing of the knowledge is helping the practice of project management become less dependent upon any single professional organization.

BR,
Dr. PDG, from Singapore
http://www.getpmcertified.com

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