Provek’s project management competence framework aligns to the refreshed APM Competence Framework and has many of the same competences and the same scoring system.

It has been developed, however, over the past ten years by Provek and is supported by data from many thousands of respondents to Provek’s online PMA6 tool.

Version 2 released in 2014 incorporates two new competences, the removal of one and amendments to some of the others, compared to the original version.

Since Provek first published its competence framework, other project management bodies, such as the Association for Project Management, have released and refreshed their own project management competence frameworks. The recent 2014 refresh of the APM competence framework has seen the number of its competences halved and the scoring system aligned to Provek’s five point scale.

It is being made more widely available to those involved in designing career paths in project management, and in the assessing, recruiting and training project management professionals. It is intended to provide guidance on the expected scope and levels of technical project management competence across a range of typical roles.

The target audience for this framework includes organisations that employ programme and project managers and associated industry professional groups involved in managing and delivery of programmes and projects.

The framework is benchmarked against thousands of programme and project staff, the breadth and depth of expected competence levels will benefit organisations by:

• Designing effective project management career paths
• Alignment of the right staff to programme and project roles
• Saving time in the specification of job requirements
• Rigorous and efficient selection of candidates
• Providing greater confidence in the whole recruitment process
• More structured and perceptive training needs analysis
• Giving a demonstrable industry benchmark

Even more benefit can be gained by using Provek’s leading online programme and project management assessment PMA6, which maps onto this competence framework.