Why all Project Management Institutes/Professional Certificate awarding institutes/agencies/etc don't follow/implement same project management roles?
Asad KhanStudent| Harvard University | Boston UnviersityKy, United States
How this diversity in opinion, thoughts, and standards create issues for project experts success. Saving Changes...
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Peter RapinSubject Matter Expect; Project Delivery| Independent ConsultantOntario, Canada
Because institutes and agencies are operated by people and people have different agendas and experiences. Diversity allows one to see or consider different perspectives and pick a course of action that suits their experiences and objectives. Diverse opinions, standards, processes leads to discussion and better results. Diversity, on the whole, is good. Saving Changes...
Certifying bodies have different views on the 5 W's, as they relate to project management, just like most businesses. Sample online PM job descriptions within one industry, and you will find there is a core set of requirements that are the same across most jobs, but it's not 100%. Expand your sample to multiple industries and that percentage decreases. Where a company is at in its business life cycle can also affect the type of project manager they are looking for.
I think that certifying bodies try to distill their offerings down to a common foundation, based on current practice and theory, but there are a lot of variables so they have to decide which are the most important and then, hopefully, evolve, over time, with the profession. Saving Changes...
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