– – The Project Management Institute (PMI) is the first professional certification program of its kind in the world to receive the ISO 9001 and ISO 17024 accreditation, a globally recognized mark of a quality in 170+ countries. Since the introduction of the PMP credential in 1984 as of July 2009, there are 346,053 active PMPs in the world today. According to one article in Certification Magazine, Denny Smith says, “every year finds more employers requiring a PMP designation on job requisitions and more organizations linking the necessity of project management skills to their success.” Early on in my career as the Director of the World-Wide PMO for Microsoft Services, we accepted the PMP as a currency in human capital that our customers and partners worldwide understood and accepted. At Microsoft dealing with 88 countries was difficult to convince that the PMP alone was sufficient a competitive advantage for our consultants. Therefore the Project Management Assessment and Credentialing (PMAC) program was developed in conjunction with Dr. John Roecker (then Manager Professional Development Programs): the PMAC program required the PMP credential and included a comprehensive Microsoft assessment of skills and abilities culminating with a professional development plan to build core capabilities, behavioral excellence, and organizational maturity (both capability and capacity were known and leveraged at annual strategic priority setting meetings). The PMP provided a minimum understanding of each consultant’s experience, education while maintaining a common taxonomy/vocabulary for more effective communication worldwide. If you believe that the PMP is merely a test you can study for and pass (as you see in many advertisements) consider adding the additional accreditation management step as in the PMAC Program (a panel assessment in areas of competency, general practice and specialization). If you are interested, this is a public domain whitepaper you can request via email in PDF format.
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