Congratulations, your written application has been assessed as meeting the Chartered standard and you have been contacted by the APM and invited to select a date for your Chartered Project Professional interview. Well done. Not everyone makes it this far! You will have some flexibility in the date that you choose for interview but it…
read moreFor many professions including Legal, Financial, Construction and Engineering becoming Chartered is seen as an important step in your career progression and so it is no surprise that the Chartered Project Professional (ChPP) standard has grown so quickly. Launched in 2017, the standard has grown to include over 4,000 Chartered Professionals throughout the world since…
read moreApplying to become a Chartered Project Professional is a rewarding exercise but it is definitely not a trivial task. You should plan on the basis that this will be a full week's work. That's around 35-40 hours when you put it all together. Most people will complete their application in stages and this guide is…
read moreYour ChPP application will be based around your track record of competence which is demonstrated by referring to specific projects that you have been involved in delivering. You can include up to four project overviews in your application. Four is not essential and sometimes less is more. If one project is sufficient to demonstrate all…
read moreYour ChPP application will be scored on the evidence of personal competence demonstrated through your contribution when delivering one of your complex projects in a project management or a related role. You will submit twelve individual competence statements each of which must refer specifically AND ONLY to one of the projects that you have included…
read moreSince the launch of the Chartered Project Professional (ChPP) standard there have been three routes to chartership depending, in the main, upon your existing levels of technical achievement. Attaining the ChPP standard requires two assessments of competence. Firstly, an assessment of your professional ability demonstrated through examples of your practical experience in a complex project…
read moreProject Leadership And The ‘God Complex’ "Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans." So sang John Lennon and there is a particular relevance to the world of projects and their management. In our world, projects can be ‘what happens’ to us while we’re busy making plans. So how could we…
read moreIt’s fashionable to be mentored and to be coached at the moment, and with good reason. Everything in business is achieved through people and the more you can do to improve performance, the faster you can remove inefficiency and make progress. As a manager in the public sector, I was immediately given ten days of…
read moreTo be successful in business we need to have a goal, a strategy and a plan. Many books have been written on the subject of business and personal planning. We are expected to work out what is really important to us; focus it into a vision or goal and be able to determine the steps…
read moreCreating a succession plan is something we tend to do as a contingency measure. Typically, this is as a result of identifying an escapee. Someone who is expected to retire, to be promoted or to find an alternative position. In order to plan for someone to “succeed” their colleague, we need to identify the qualities…
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