Report from the Global Alliance
for Project Performance Standards, Workshop #15, Pretoria, South Africa

I am back in Jakarta from a hectic, but very productive Workshop #15 for the Global Alliance for Project Performance Standards (GAPPS), http://www.globalpmstandards.org/  held at the beautiful Pretoria University Campus, http://web.up.ac.za/  Pretoria, South Africa, from 21 - 23 Feb, 2009.

Despite the global recession, attendance was good and as always, the camaraderie and commitment was outstanding, as was the food!!

During this working session, 4 streams were being developed:

• Mapping of the GAPPS Competency Standards

• Marketing and Communications

• Endorsement Process

• Program Manager Performance Standards

Mapping-

One of the primary objectives of GAPPS is to map the competency standards GAPPS has developed to serve as a baseline or “common denominator” against which to compare the bodies of knowledge and methodologies offered by professional organizations, individual companies or government agencies. In this workshop, we compared IPMA’s competency based credentials vs. the GAPPS standards and we started mapping AACE’s Total Cost Management Framework against GAPPS.  As I am most familiar with AACE, let me use them as an example and start by explaining that what GAPPS offers is NOT a competing credential, product or service, but a BENCHMARK or BASELINE.  

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