Thursday, May 31, 2018

Making Things Work During A PMP Audit

By Anna Clark


When a person gets up in the morning, the first thing they do is shut off their alarm. The alarm is there to make sure that they actually get up. Now, most people have to get up in the morning because they all have to get to work to earn a salary. Some people who work do not have that much responsibility. Higher ups may stress how important each job is, but at the end of the day, some people are just easily replaceable cogs in a machine. But a project manager is not a replaceable cog. A project manager is the person who makes sure that things gets done, who keeps all the cogs going. But, every now and then, the governing body that gave a project manager recognition will have to step in and make sure that said professional is living up to their standards, which is when a PMP audit is initiated.

Before a person can even receive PMP certification, they must be educated. If a person has a college degree, then they will need fewer hours or project management experience. If they only a high school diploma or an associate degree, they will need a lot more experience. All applicants must also have at least thirty five classroom hours in project management education.

An audit is a review. It is a check to make sure that a person did not misrepresent themselves. It is one thing to lie in a job interview. It is another entirely to falsify records.

Now, for certain bodies, particularly those that certify professionals, assessments can be random. In fact, for the PMI, the audit is random. No malice or forethought to a particular individual goes into making a decision as to who get audited next.

There is a tendency to be indignant of to panic whenever the credentials of a person are put into question. However, in the case of an audit, there is no need to do either. Since the audits are supposed to be random, there was no ill intent involved. In fact, the only thing that should be done is to comply with all the requirements as quickly as possible.

There is not a lot to expect during an appraisal. The majority of people will just receive a notice that one has started. Most notices come with a list of materials to be submitted.

Failing an appraisal can be easy. All a person has to do to lose PMP certification is to not comply, to do nothing during the ninety days which they are given to comply. The other way to fail is to be dishonest, to have misrepresented educational and professional experience.

Now, passing a review is easy enough. Generally speaking, all that is required is proof of education and experience. Records and transcripts can be easily attained and forwarded. Now, for experience, all that is needed is the sponsorship of a supervisor or an immediate head to verify that an individual has worked X amount of time in a project management capacity.

People need to work. An individual needs a job in order to buy food. But the people in those jobs should be qualified for them.




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