GAPPS Global Aliance for Project Performance Standards

The purpose of the GAPPS - Global Alliance for Project Performance Standards initiative is to develop agreed frameworks as a basis for review, development, and recognition of local standards that will facilitate mutual recognition and transferability of project management qualifications. It is intended that the framework and associated standards be freely available for use by businesses, academic institutions, professional associations, and government standards and qualifications bodies globally.

As project management has become a more widely used management approach, both public and private sector entities have become interested in standards that describe levels of acceptable workplace performance. Many of these entities operate across national boundaries and are thus interested in standards and qualifications that are transferable. Governments, concerned with ensuring an internationally competitive workforce, and individuals, desiring greater mobility, are also interested in the mutual recognition and transferability of qualifications.

Those of you who follow my 8 Rules, will know that most of my concentration is a combination of hard rules and soft delivery.Those of you have studied with me, know that my teaching is about the real world techniques and methods for delivering the outcomes of the PMIBOK.

By this posting, I invite you to check out GAPPS.



GAPPS is a kind of "opensource". The individuals who founded GAPPS felt it necessary for a global standard that is independent of any proprietary standards. Proprietary in this context means standards that cost to use and support a non-volunteer organization. This posting is in no way meant to diminish the hard work and outstanding results that the proprietary organizations have achieved corporately and individually.



This a different paradigm for Project Standardization, and by combining ISO and GAPPS one starts to get their individual arms around what the global PM community is about. A view that is not filtered by the prism of proprietary vision.

GAPPS (along with ISO) believes that the setting of standards and the creation of certifications represent a conflict of interest. Although ISO will accept an arms-length relationship, GAPPS prefers to collaborate with rather than compete with the various credentialing bodies. In fact, most of the major credentialing organisations are GAPPS members.

Performance based competency standards are also called occupational competency standards, and are widely used throughout the world. PBCS have been developed within the context of government endorsed standards and qualifications frameworks

I hope you will take a few minutes to make the globalpmstandards.org project manager standards one of your favorite sites on your web browser.



Take a few minutes to download and read the standards.



Take a chance to study and understand CIFTER.



In my humble opinion, knowing the GAPPS system of standards and comparing your skills, knowledge and experiences against the standards you might see some real room for growth in the global PM community..