PMP Certification: What is your prognosis?

Dear Deepesh

Thank you for participating in this reflection and for your opinion

All of us, who are PMP, have endeavored to achieve certification

The point is that many people complain about not being able to pass the exam ...
I am convinced that the next exams for the PMP certification will be easier and, as a result, this certification will lose value

Dear Kiron
Thank you for your opinion

I believe that: "I have met enough PMP holders who couldn't effectively manage any project bigger than painting a room"

Do you consider that these people, when they applied for the exam, did it fulfilling all the requirements?

How does Stanford University or Harvard Business School maintain its reputation?
Why have exams become easier?

Dear Alexandre
Thank you for participating in this reflection and for your opinion

Of course, a person who was a project manager for 4500 hours (requirement to apply for the exam), that is, about 2.5 years of managing projects, proved in practice that he is a project manager (otherwise he would have been fired these functions)

Unless, when people apply for the exam, they are making false statements (which is unethical), the relevance of the experience is present

To continue maintaining the prestige of the PMP certification, the PMI may be even more rigorous in evaluating exam applications

But, my suspicion goes in the opposite direction: the exams will be easier.

Luis -

I think it is possible to meet the requirements for the exam honestly, but someone who has managed low complexity projects in a fairly narrow domain might not really be a highly competent PM. They wouldn't be misrepresenting their experience, but they just wouldn't be effective in a number of project contexts.

I can't speak to how Ivy League schools maintain their credibility beyond the calibre of their faculty, research and publications. I DO believe that traditional secondary education is well past due for a significant evolution to make it continue to be provide value cost effectively.

As far as the exam getting simpler, I wouldn't draw that conclusion based on the number of folks I've encountered who did fail it on their first attempt. Yes, there continue to be lots of resources available to help someone study, but as those are all guesses (some better than others) on what types of questions will be asked, it doesn't correlate with higher pass rates.

Also, I believe that PMI does review and re-calibrate things like what is the minimum score required to pass from time to time...

Kiron

Dear João
Thank you for participating in this reflection and for your opinion

It will be with sadness that I will see the level of requirement to obtain the PMP certification lowered

Dear Kiron
Thanks for sharing your opinion

You wrote: "I have met enough PMP holders who couldn't effectively manage any project bigger than painting a room"

Then he wrote: "They wouldn't be misrepresenting their experience, but they just wouldn't be effective in a number of project contexts"

Regarding the exam, it gets simpler.
You know that many people have complained to PMI because they failed the PMP certification exam

Studies show that 80% of people attribute to others, or to the context or external situations, responsibility for what happens to them

Applying the results of this study to the PMP certification exam, only 20% give themselves responsibility for failing

Many people say that they failed the exam because of the training they received, given by the REP's, or because the exam is difficult or because it was not sunny on the day of the exam :-)

My fear is that PMI will fall into the temptation of facilitism

Some people responsible for certification programs have already changed ...

Dear Kiron

We agree with what you wrote: "I DO believe that traditional secondary education is well past due for a significant evolution to make it continue to be provide value cost effectively"

What are the competences for the XXI century?
Communication, Critical Thinking, Collaboration and Creativity

Teaching has to be structured to develop these skills

Facilitism is that secondary school teachers accept that students:
- Make "Copy" "Paste" of articles taken from the internet on the topics of reflection and give them good marks
- Make poorly structured presentations and about dubious content (without scientific basis)
- Perform work in which critical thinking is not present (if they are "copy" "paste")
- Do not collaborate with each other in carrying out the work
- Allow that the effort and contribution to the result of the presented works is not the same

When I took my PMP, PMI still assigned you a score. I remember that shortly after I passed, they increased the passing mark to about 82.5%. I remember thinking that I would have passed the elevated threshold.