American Society for the Advancement of Project Management

asapm is a US-based not-for-profit professional society dedicated to advancing the project management discipline. Working with members, asapm provides the leadership for professional growth of both members and the profession. Enhancement of the profession benefits project practitioners, their respective organizations, and the project management community. asapm is working at the forefront of the project management discipline to push practices, procedures, and techniques to their best use.

Training or educational materials directed at both the sense of hearing and the sense of sight. Materials that provide  pictures and/or sounds to assist learning or teaching.  Flip charts, overhead transparencies, graphical presentations, computer-based presentations, chalkboards, slide presentations, videos and films are just a few examples of audio-visual aids.

• project team members;
• entry-level project managers; and
• project management undergraduate and graduate students.

Continuing Education Unit

The Continuing Education Unit (CEU) falls under the cognizance of the International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET). Those organizations authorized to award CEUs for their courses must meet the criteria and quality assurance guidelines established by IACET. The Professional Development Unit (PDU) was established by PMI as the educational metric for project management educational activities. One PDU is earned for each contact hour spent in structured learning, which is relevant to project management. For conversion purposes, one (1) CEU equates to 10 PDUs

• Enhance the ongoing professional development of certificants
• Encourage and recognize individualized learning opportunities
• Offer a standardized and objective mechanism for attaining and recording professional development activities, and
• Sustain the global recognition and value of PMI’s credentials

The International Project Management Association (IPMA) "Certificated Project Manager"(CPM) accreditation is reached through a competency based process. One is required to have extensive hands on experience in the management of projects. A 5- 8000 word Project Report, equivalent to a Master’s thesis, is the next milestone. If the Project Report satisfies an Evaluation Board then there is a personal appearance and interrogation by an accrediting Evaluation Board. The International Project Management Association (IPMA) has a career profile of four levels including certification of project managers. Certification of project managers has two senior levels, dependent on experience and competency, of Certificated Project Manager, and Certificated International Project Manager.

International Project Management Association

The IPMA is the world’s oldest project management organisation. It is an international network of national project management societies.   While these national societies serve the specific project management development needs of each country in its national language, the IPMA as an umbrella organisation represents them at the international level.

Lifelong learning is the concept that "It's never too soon or too late for learning", a philosophy that has taken root in a whole host of different organizations. Lifelong learning is attitudinal; that one can and should be open to new ideas, decisions, skills or behaviors. Lifelong learning throws the axiom "You can't teach an old dog new tricks" out the door. Lifelong learning sees citizens provided with learning opportunities at all ages and in numerous contexts: at work, at home and through leisure activities, not just through formal channels such as school and higher education.

A way of generating a quantitative value (numerical) to a qualitative questionnaire (e.g. poor, fair, good, very good, excellent). Sometimes used on end of course evaluation. (smile sheets) For an ascending five point scale incremental values are assigned to each category and a mean figure for all the responses is calculated. (via the sum of the products of the categories' assigned value times the number of respondents for that category, divided by the total number of respondents) Example: Total number of respondents=25, assigned values are; poor=1, fair=2, good=3, very good=4, excellent=5; respondents selecting following categories are; good=9, very good=10, excellent=6. The quantitative mean = ((9*3)+(10*4)+(6*5))/25=3.9

A mentee is a professional who forms a planned partnership with a mentor over a specific period of time to reach specific professional or personal development goals.
 

A mentor is an experienced professional who forms an active helping relationship with a mentee. In this program, the relationship is a planned partnership over a specific period of time to help the mentee reach specific goals.

 Mentoring is an opportunity to: 

• Make a difference in the life a a newcomer
• Help someone by sharing your experience and knowledge
• Learn about your field from an international perspective
• Gain knowledge of another culture

Benefits of Mentoring Programs

• Mentoring has been widely acknowledged as an effective way of helping newcomers overcome challenges and integrate into the labour market and wider community.
• Mentoring initaties and fosters diversity in hiring practices
• Practical means of demonstrating indivdual and organizational commitment to acces, equity and diversity.

A methodology and an instrument for identifying an individual's personality type based on Carl Jung's theory of personality preferences.

The OPM3 certification process is a comprehensive program designed to elevate the application of OPM3 via certification, tools and services that increase the ability to help organizations achieve even greater value from OPM3 global standard.

Professional Development Unit

The PDU is a measure of time spent in a structured learning activity. For formalized learning activities, the course content should be consistent with the knowledge areas and processes as outlined by the PMBOK^® Guide and involve appropriate expert resources. One (1) PDU is given for each hour of structured learning. Fractions of hours will be accepted in .25 increments. An activity or group of related activities must be a minimum of one full hour to be accepted. Ten minutes per each hour for breaks are permitted in programs that exceed one hour in length. Exceptions: Specified numbers of PDUs may also be earned for service to the profession and for specified professional activities.

Project Management Body of Knowledge

Project Management Institute (PMI) published the first PMBOK® in an attempt to document and standardize generally accepted project management information and practices. The current edition, the third edition copyright 2004, was released on October 31 2004 and provides a basic reference for Project Management. The PMBOK Guide is widely accepted to be the standard in project management.

The PMBOK is a collection of processes and knowledge areas generally accepted as best practice within the project management discipline.  The PMBOK is an internationally recognised standard (IEEE Std 1490-2003) that provides the fundamentals of project management that are applicable to a wide range of projects, including construction, software, engineering, automotive, etc.

PMBOK recognizes 5 basic process groups and 9 knowledge areas typical of almost all projects. The basic concepts are applicable to projects, programs and operations. The five basic process groups are:

1. Initiating,
2. Planning,
3. Executing,
4. Controlling and Monitoring, and
5. Closing.

Processes overlap and interact throughout a project or phase. Processes are described in terms of:

Inputs (documents, plans, designs, etc.) Tools and Techniques (mechanisms applied to inputs) Outputs (documents, products, etc.)

A podcast is a media file which is distributed over the Internet using syndication feeds, for playback on portable media players and personal computers.^[1] Like 'radio', it can mean both the content and the method of syndication. The latter may also be termed podcasting. The host or author of a podcast is often called a podcaster. The term "podcast" is a portmanteau of the name of Apple's portable music player, the iPod, and broadcast; a pod refers to a container of some sort and the idea of broadcasting to a container or pod correctly describes the process of podcasting.

The systematic maintenance, improvement and broadening of knowledge and skills, and the development of personal qualities necessary for the execution of professional duties throughout working life.

Registered Education Provider

Registered Education Providers (REPs) are organizations approved by PMI to offer project management training for Professional Development Units (PDU). Currently there are over 700 organizations from 55 countries in the PMI registry.  To learn more about the REP program select from the following links or contact PMI staff at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or, by telephone at +1-610-356-4600.

Types of REPs
Members of the R.E.P. program represent the complete range of organizations serving the professional development needs of the project management community. In addition to nearly 600 commercial training providers, there are 70 universities and colleges, 60 corporate and government internal training centers. In addition, over 280 Chartered PMI Components (Chapters, SIGs and Colleges) are authorized to issue Category 3 PDUs for their programs and events. Examples of registered academic institutions include Boston University, Ryerson University, University of Sydney, University of California, and Western Carolina University. Examples of registered corporate and government REPS include IBM, Hewlett Packard, Siemens, Pfizer, Bank of Montreal, and the U.S. Department of Energy. It is important to know that all R.E.P.s, no matter their category, are subject to the same quality assurance requirements. For administrative purposes, PMI has created specific categories of R.E.P.s, but no matter if the R.E.P. is a school or a commercial provider, they are treated equally. For example, the category of “Global Provider” means that the provider can list more than three courses in the PMI database and has opted for a higher level of service.Category Types:Provider
Training organizations that offer a small selection of courses (typically three courses or less).Global Provider
Training organizations offering multiple courses to the public. At the Global Provider level, the organization may register an unlimited number of courses in the R.E.P. Database. Charter Provider and Charter Global Provider
The designation “Charter” indicates those organizations that helped support the initial development of the R.E.P. Program.Internal Training Provider
Training departments, within corporations or government agencies, providing courses solely to employees of their organization. Internal Training Provider R.E.P.s do not offer training to the public.Cooperative Agreement Organization Provider
An organization – typically another professional association - that maintains a cooperating agreement with PMI. For more information, please visit Cooperative Relations area of the PMI Web site.PMI Component Provider
A PMI Chapter, PMI Specific Interest Group or PMI College offering courses to their members and the public.

An acting out of specific situations in front of, or with, the group to demonstrate ways to handle specific situations or problems.

A training needs analysis is the method of determining if a training need exists and if it does, what training is required to fill the gap.

A training needs analysis is the method of determining if a training need exists and if it does, what training is required to fill the gap.

Short for Web-based seminar, a presentation, lecture, workshop or seminar that is transmitted over the Web.  A key feature of a Webinar is its interactive elements -- the ability to give, receive and discuss information. Contrast with Webcast, in which the data transmission is one way and does not allow interaction between the presenter and the audience.

Training program where the participants learn by doing and interacting.