The APM Competence Framework 2

The new APM Competence Framework includes an authoritative list of the competences required.It provides an independent common reference from the respected body representing all professionals working in project management for all organisations and individuals in the profession, regardless of their size, sector or geographic location.

In developing the new framework, APM has simplified and improved the format to make it easier to understand and use. A number of features help it meet the needs of today’s project professionals:

• Duplication between the competences has been removed and the number of competences refined from 47 to 27.
  
  
• 14 role profiles have also been developed, which identify the subset of competences that apply to individual roles.
  
  
• A specific focus on programme management, portfolio management and the PMO, including role profiles, make it a modern resource that meets the needs of today’s project professionals.
  
  
• Each competence defines what the practitioner actually needs to be able to do. ‘Introductory notes’ provide a summary and describe its place in the context of the wider project management framework.
  
  
• Each competence also has indicators for both ‘knowledge’ and ‘application’, allowing the assessment to evaluate both of these factors.
  
  
• The scoring matrix has been refined to a five-point scale.