Using The Project Management Competence Development Framework To Improve Project Management Capability

Using the Project Management Competence Development Framework to Improve Project Management Capability

In 2007, PMI published the second edition of its Project Manager Competency Development Framework (PMCDF), a publication that outlines a framework developed--via a PMI-sponsored research project--to support PMI's PMP examination process. Authored by the project manager for PMI's PMCDF, second edition, this paper examines PMCDF's framework and explains how project managers can use it to improve both their professional competence in managing projects and their organization's capability to practice project management. In doing so, it overviews PMCDF's evolution and PMI's effort to develop and publish its PMCDF, second edition. It defines PMCDF's purpose and its dimensions of project management competence. It then outlines the PMCDF framework, as published in PMI's PMCDF, second edition. It identifies the framework's five performance competencies and six personal competencies; it discusses the three levels of competence rigor (low, medium, and high) and describes the significance of high vigor. It also looks at how project managers can perform self-assessments and organizational assessments as well as how they can develop, implement, monitor, and evaluate a plan to improve their individual project management competencies.

APM Competence Framework

Sustainability in Project Management

Sustainability is one of the most important challenges of our time. How can we develop prosperity, without compromising the life of future generations? Companies are integrating ideas of sustainability in their marketing, corporate communications, annual reports and in their actions.