Talent Reinvention?

Andy Jordan is President of Roffensian Consulting S.A., a Roatan, Honduras-based management consulting firm with a comprehensive project management practice. Andy always appreciates feedback and discussion on the issues raised in his articles and can be reached at [email protected]. Andy's new book Risk Management for Project Driven Organizations is now available.

  Career Development   Using PMI Standards  

As most of you are now aware, PMI has recently shifted the focus of its Continuing Certification Requirements (CCR) program. Certification now focuses on three different areas – technical project management, leadership, and strategic and business management. While PMI is looking for a degree of balance in these categories, I can’t help thinking that this new diversity creates opportunities for project managers – and employers – to differentiate.

If we just look at the education element of maintaining certification, most of PMI’s qualifications require a minimum of 35 PDUs over three years in this category. A minimum of eight of those PDUs must come from each of the three Talent Triangle™ areas, with the remaining 11 (or more) allocated as the individual sees fit.

I am well aware that for some (perhaps many) PMPs, the CCR program is simply a game to achieve PDUs from any source as easily as possible, but I really believe that’s a lost opportunity. PDUs offer the practical opportunity to maintain and enhance skills levels, but they also offer a way to personalize the project management experience and develop your career in a unique way. That opportunity to diversify is now increased, and that is something I believe you can leverage.

Why “how” you develop matters
I hope it is obvious that we all need to continuously …

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