The Journey from Idea to Implementation: A PMI Volunteer’s View on the Development of a New Certification
(Part 4)

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

  Business Analysis   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 4: Next steps
Once we had our final delineation, we sought the larger industry perspective and performed a validation survey to understand the criticality, frequency and ultimate weighting of the domains and tasks. The survey went to thousands of individuals that spanned different countries, industries, organizations and roles. The feedback from the larger profession helped to ensure that our work was a true representation of what is occurring within the industry.

From the survey data we determined the time spent in each task within each domain, the criticality of each task …

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