The Journey from Idea to Implementation: A PMI Volunteer’s View on the Development of a New Certification
(Part 2)

Beth Ouellette is a Project Portfolio, PgMO & PM Expert, Professional Facilitator, Educator & Coach, and Managing Director, The Ouellette Group.

  Requirements Management   Using PMI Standards  

In this article series, Beth Ouellette, Chief Executive at the Ouellette Group in New York, talks about her experience working on PMI’s Requirements Management Steering Committee. This group helped to perform the work that eventually created the PMI Professional in Business Analysis (PMI-PBA)^SM certification, which officially launched in September, 2014. As Beth explains, the work and planning that goes into the creation of a PMI certification begins long before it’s made public.

Through extensive research and planning, PMI strives to create certifications that bring the most value to the profession. PMI volunteers play an essential part in ensuring that these certifications meet the crucial needs of the business community and are at the cutting edge of the profession.

Part 2: Building the foundation for a new certification
When I started work on the certification steering committee in 2012, a lot of in-depth research had already been performed. What we learned from it was that requirements crossed all areas of a project, program or portfolio; so did the various roles who worked with requirements. It truly touches on so many levels of an organization and the research demonstrated just how much.

We found that senior executives and C-level teams use requirements to reformulate their organization-wide strategies. Mid-level managers use requirements to…

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