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Project Manager Competency Development and Assessment
(A One Day Workshop)

PDUs awarded: 7

Workshop Overview

As Projects get more complex; Project Managerial skills become a critical differentiator. Studies by various research organizations have repeatedly shown that Projects following structured Project Management processes and handled by capable Project Managers have lesser risks of time and cost overruns and attain Project objectives more often.

Project Management in knowledge-based industries relies heavily on ‘soft skills’ of Managers. A robust Assessment model needs to address the Technical, Delivery and behavioral aspects of Project Management.

This workshop is based on the Project Management Competency Development (PMCD) framework propagated by the Project Management Institute (PMI). This framework is applicable generically to Projects in different verticals and sizes.

Workshop Content

Following themes will be covered during the Workshop:

• What is Project Manager competency and how to measure it?
• What are the multiple dimensions of Project Managerial competence?
• Which are the performance criteria to measure the competencies in different dimensions?
• How to assess the Personal competencies of Project Managers?
• How to develop the Project Managerial competencies and measure the overall competency levels?

The Workshop will enunciate the three major dimensions of competency – Knowledge, Performance and Personal, as propagated by PMI.

The knowledge element is clustered around nine Knowledge areas and five process groups of PMBOK. For each of the Knowledge Area/ process group combination, multiple tasks ( as elements) have been defined, in which the capability is to be demonstrated by the Project Manager.

The training details out the task elements, their interlinkages and what needs to be done to fulfill the Knowledge Area/ Process group combination.

For each of these Knowledge Area/ process group combination, Performance criteria and Deliverables are also defined . The project Manager needs to exhibit these criteria and knowledge of the deliverables to be successfully assessed for the combination.

In Personal Competencies, criteria for measuring personal traits like Achievement and Action, Managerial Impact and Influence, Cognitive judgment and Personal Effectiveness, Teamwork, Developing others, will be covered.

The roadmap overview covered for Competence measurement is :

• Determine applicable elements and performance criteria
• Determine desired levels of proficiency
• Perform Assessment
• Address gaps in assessment
• Chart Progression towards competence

The training will also cover how to draw up a PMCD summary dashboard, to highlight the extent of competency possessed by the Project Managers in multiple dimensions.