London Corporate event Thursday 5th May 2016 Nick Jones & Mark Neller

2. 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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3. 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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4. 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

5. 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

6. Professionalising project management
 Clear career frameworks
 …that recognise the rounded professional
 …that capture people early
 …that are easy to understand
 …that are inclusive

7. 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

8. The APM model of professionalism

9. 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

10. Competence Framework 2nd edition
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11. 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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12. 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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13. 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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14. 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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15. New APM Project Professional Qualification
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16. 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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17. “Qualification route”
Progressive qualification route to become a Registered Project Professional
or

18. 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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19. 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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20. 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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21. 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
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22. 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
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23. 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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24. 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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25. Built into everything we do
APM
Registered
Project
Professional
Corporate
accreditation

26. 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.

27. The Association for Project
Management and Arup
Mark Neller
5th May 2016

28. Our founder, Ove Arup

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

30. Sydney Opera House, Australia

31. Tall Buildings engineered by Arup

32. 30 St Mary Axe, London, UK

33. High Speed 1, UK

34. Kings Cross Western Concourse, London, UK

35. 35 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
OPPORTUNITIES
BUSINESS
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”

47. Benefits Of Corporate Accreditation

48. 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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Thank you!

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