APM Update, including the

new Project Professional

Qualification

APM London Branch Corporate

Breakfast

May 5th 2016

Nick Jones, Senior Membership Development

Manager

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What I’m going to talk about

Brief update on current APM status

Provide a high level overview of the proposed APM career framework

and the 5 Dimensions of Professionalism

Give you an insight into the Competence framework 2nd edition, the new

Project Professional Qualification and future developments

Brief overview of APM Corporate Accreditation

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c.22,000 individual members

597 corporate members

971,292 unique website visitors

in last 12 months

Leading member of the

IPMA

c.17,000 qualifications

takers annually

c.900 Registered

Project Professionals

200+ CPD events annually

Turnover

c.£9m

Preparing to become a

chartered body

APM Update

Project management market

Value of projects in the UK: approximately £1.25tr.

62% of projects are under £5m

UK’s 3 biggest projects are worth £50bn

Number of people in project management: 1.5m

95% of people have a low level qualification or no qualification at all

69% of companies are growing and recruiting

Professionalising project management

Clear career frameworks

…that recognise the rounded professional

…that capture people early

…that are easy to understand

…that are inclusive

APM Career framework (in development)

Fundamentals

Management

Professional MAPM

Associate

Competence from

experience

APM Registered Project Professional

Qualified route

Development route

Experiential route

Code of Conduct and CPD

The APM model of professionalism

The core components A framework or methodology which

defines the processes and practices

for the organisation

A competence framework to map

levels of knowledge and

application at appropriate levels

Qualifications to provide developmental

opportunities and recognition of

competence at appropriate levels

A continuing professional development

scheme that broadens horizons and builds

understanding through sharing of good practice

Recognition that true professionals should

be accountable for their actions and adhere

to a code of ethics and professional conduct

Competence Framework 2nd edition

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Why did we need to change?

Previous framework had not been reviewed or updated since 2008

Edition 1 only relevant to Project Managers, not inclusive

Wanted to create a platform to build our product and service proposition

that enabled us to support our 2020 Strategy vision

We wanted to respond to customer feedback:

– Extend existing framework beyond just Project Management

– Ensure it becomes more relevant and practical for project professionals

– Ensure it’s flexible enough to integrate into existing frameworks and programmes

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What’s different?

Streamlined and easier to use

– Number of competences reduced from 47 to 27

– Mapped new competence to old ones

Addresses both application and knowledge of each competence

Relevant for Project, Programme and Portfolio Managers and PMO roles

14 new role profiles

New ratings scale

New complexity guidance

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Key benefits

Role profiles give you the professional body view of competence and provide a

trusted benchmark

Enables you to make (consistent) comparisons across your PM community

Identifies the differences between professional body benchmark and actual skills

within your organisation

Identify skills gaps and can be used to support professional development plans

Facilitates movement between the 4 project professional disciplines

Modern Framework that can be used as it is or integrated into an existing

framework

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In summary….

It’s integral to and underpins everything we do at APM

– Basis of all of our new product development

It enables organisations to assess their capacity and capabilities

across the breadth of their different functions

– Enables senior management teams to plan the skills development and

knowledge acquisition strategies in a common way for all delivery teams.

It enables individual project professionals to assess the knowledge

and experiences that they have against the knowledge and

experience they require to progress their career

– Identifies the study pathway that will best suit their individual requirements.

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New APM Project Professional Qualification

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Introduction to new PPQ qualification

Launches tomorrow 21st April at the APM conference

It’s a developmental qualification that sits on the route to RPP

– Natural progression from Project Management Qualification

It’s not a direct replacement for the existing Practitioner

Qualification, but it sits in the same space

– The PQ is a retrospective assessment whereas the new qualification takes a

progressive/developmental approach

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“Qualification route”

Progressive qualification route to become a Registered Project Professional

or

Qualification overview

It’s aligned to APM’s Competence Framework 2nd Edition

It’s been developed as a multi-paper qualification taken in stages

4 modules, each of 3 hour duration with scenario based questions

3 core modules- Professionalism and managing others, Planning

and control and Governance

3 elective modules - Project, Programme and Portfolio management

It provides a progressive “qualification route” to become a Registered

Project Professional (RPP)

It’s been developed by practitioners, for practitioners

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Who should consider this qualification?

• Typically have 3-5 years’ experience as a project professional

• Project professionals who have already successfully achieved the APM

Project Fundamentals and/or APM Project Management qualifications

• Project professionals who want to become full members of APM (MAPM)

• Project professional who want to become Registered Project

Professionals (RPP)

• Project, Programme and Portfolio Managers who have been mapped to

the intermediate levels on the Competence Framework Role Profiles

• Practitioners who have successfully delivered projects

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A mix of core and optional modules

Professionalism

and managing

others

Planning and

control Governance + +

Project

management

Programme

management Portfolio

management or or

APM Project Professional

Qualification

RPP

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Three ‘core’ modules

Professionalism

and managing

others

Planning and

control

Governance

• Ethics, compliance and professionalism

• Team management

• Conflict management

• Leadership

• Risk and issue management

• Schedule management

• Resource management

• Budgeting and cost control

• Governance arrangements

• Stakeholder and communication management

• Reviews

• Change control

• Business case 21

Three ‘elective’ modules

Project

management

Programme

management

Portfolio

management

• Procurement

• Contract management

• Requirements management

• Solutions development

• Quality management

• Transition management

• Financial management

• Resource capacity planning

• Frameworks and methodologies

• Independent assurance

• Financial management

• Resource capacity planning

• Frameworks and methodologies

• Independent assurance

• Asset allocation 22

Benefits

Relevant to all project professionals, making it more inclusive

Enables organisations to develop the right skills for the right roles to

improve project success

Enables organisations to demonstrate their commitment to developing

talent across their whole project community

Provides individuals with structured personal development solutions

Enables individuals to engage more effectively with peers and clients

Increases individuals employability

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What’s to come….?

Realignment and naming of our qualification suite later in 2016

Launch of new website and CRM summer (timings tbc)

– Improved on-site search and discoverability

– Improved transactional activity

– New modern look and feel accessible across multiple devices and platforms

Review of individual and corporate member packages

Review of RPP

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Built into everything we do

APM

Registered

Project

Professional

Corporate

accreditation

APM Corporate Accreditation

APM Corporate Accreditation recognises the commitment of

organisations to the 5 Dimensions of Professionalism.

Currently 61 Accredited organisations, including Arup, Royal Mail

Highways England, Arcadis, Mott MacDonald, Turner & Townsend

and Gleeds.

Benefits:

Differentiation - Stand out as an exemplar in the development of P3M

professionals.

Offers assurance to stakeholders.

Can utilise to help attract and retain the best talent.

The Association for Project Management and Arup

Mark Neller 5th May 2016

Our founder, Ove Arup

Over 12,000 people in more than 90 offices around the world

Sydney Opera House, Australia

Tall Buildings engineered by Arup

30 St Mary Axe, London, UK

High Speed 1, UK

Kings Cross Western Concourse, London, UK

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London Power Tunnels, National Grid

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Programme and Project Management

Engineering Management

Commission

Project

Management

Client

Arup

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Programme and Project Management

Engineering Management

Client

Arup

PPM

E M

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Why the APM?

BENEFITS

ACCESS TO

KNOWLEDGE

RESOURCES,

BEST PRACTICE,

INFORMATION

EXPOSURE TO

LATEST

THINKING IN

THE INDUSTRY

COST

EFFECTIVE

CONTINUE

PROFESSIONAL

DEVELOPMENT

COMPETENCE

DEVELOPMENT

RECOGNITION

IN THE

INDUSTRY

NETWORKING

AND

PARTNERSHIP

OPPORTUNITIESBUSINESS

DEVELOPMENT

REINFORCING

COMPANY

REPUTATION,

IMAGE &

VISIBILITY

EXPOSURE TO

NEW SECTORS

CONTRIBUTE TO

THE

PROFESSION

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• Common language

• Widely used by clients

• Flexible framework

• Built into our own best practice

Breadth – APM Body of Knowledge

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Breadth – Body of Knowledge

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• Clarity of development areas

• Alignment to Arup’s competency framework

• Mapped to training available within the firm

• Recommended its adoption to clients

Depth – Competency Framework

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Depth – Competency Framework

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Achievement - Qualifications

Introductory

Certificate

APMP

Full Member

APMPQ

Registered

Project

Professional

Professionally

Qualified

Grade 3

Grade 4

Grade +6

Grade 5

Intro to client PM

Managing Arup

commissions

successfully

Professional

Programme and

Project Managers

Masters modules?

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Commitment

SIG Skills Champions

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Commitment - CPD

SIG Skills Champions

APM - SIG Arup – Skills Champions

Assurance Assurance and H&S

Value Value and Benefits

Benefits

Contracts and Procurement Contracts and Procurement

Enabling Change Change and Leadership

People

Governance Governance

Knowledge Information and Knowledge

Planning, Monitoring and Control Planning, Monitoring and Control

Programme Management Programme Management

PMO

Risk Risk

Women -

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• Membership fees reimbursed

• Talks on the benefits of membership

• Membership numbers steadily increasing.

Accountability - Membership

“We will act honestly and fairly in dealings with our staff and others”

Benefits Of Corporate Accreditation

APM ENGAGEMENT PROGRAMME

Raise awareness among

Arup’s staff

Increase number of

individual membership

Build relationship with APM

SIGs via Skills Champions

Raise visibility of Arup within APM

(articles, papers, conferences,

seminars, etc.)

“More Arup in APM, more APM in Arup”

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