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In Defense of Frameworks
Glen is Vice President Program Planning and Controls, Niwot Ridge LLC.
The Project Management Institute does not claim the PMP certifies skill or experience, nor should any credible interviewer make this assumption. But experience requires a framework in which to compare its relevance. The real issue is: “How to interview and select good project managers.”
A recent opinion about the usefulness of a Project Management Professional (PMP) certification during the project manager interview process — “The Unlearning Principle” (Feb. 28, 2008) — may benefit from the point of view most often attributed to Yogi Berra: “In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.” In practice, describing one’s experience benefits from a theoretical framework — a structure in which to compare this experience.
PMBOK is one framework. There are others: PRINCE2, the Office of Government Commerce’s Project, Program and Portfolio Management maturity model, the Dynamic Systems Development Method, and some of the Process Areas of CMMI, among others. PMP certification simply attests to one’s knowledge of project management through the framework of PMBOK. It does not attest to the skills, experience and capabilities of the PMP holder in managing projects. That comes with skill development, experience and acquisition of capabilities — in the same way any …
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