Find out what Adrian Dooley, Praxis Framework Lead Author has to say.
Why being or hiring a Praxis Framework Practitioner is a good move.
Praxis is a free framework for the management of projects, programmes and portfolios. It includes a body of knowledge, methodology, competency framework and capability maturity model. The framework is supported by a knowledgebase of resources and an encyclopaedia.
There are three things that make a Praxis Framework practitioner stand out amongst peers in the project, programme & portfolio management community.
Firstly, the breadth and flexibility of their knowledge. By eliminating duplication, Praxis Framework training courses cover material that would otherwise require the learner to take a PRINCE2® Practitioner, MSP® Practitioner and APM PMQ to get the same coverage.
Traditionally, good practice guides (I avoid the term ‘best practice’ because ‘best’ implies it can’t get better – and that’s just wrong) identify as applying to one of three types of initiative: a project, a programme or a portfolio. But reality does not fit neatly into three mutually exclusive buckets.
Praxis Framework Practitioners don’t fit into one of these three buckets either; they understand that there is a spectrum and each individual initiative may incorporate elements of what is traditionally considered a project, programme or portfolio.
Secondly, Praxis Framework Practitioners realize that they have to take the basics and think for themselves.
It’s what behavioural scientists call ‘the nudge’. Simple things like writing every document with initial capital letters and providing a detailed specification of the document has an effect. It implies that there is only one way to do it and it must be done that way.
Once that nudge has taken effect, no amount of advice on the need to tailor will get people out of the mindset that leads to the “I did exactly what it says in paragraph 3 on page 48 – so it’s not my fault the project failed.” Praxis qualifies a lot of statements with words like ‘usually’ to constantly emphasise that there is no ‘one size fits all’.
Thirdly, Praxis Framework Practitioners realize that the course and certification do not cover everything in the framework (and of course, the framework is constantly growing). They have access to immediate and extensive opportunities for continuing development. Tools like the checklist-based 360o assessment and the iMA approach to understanding how different personalities in a team interpret the basics in different ways.
From an individual’s point of view, being a Praxis Framework Practitioner demonstrates that you have a broad understanding of project and programme management and a pragmatic approach to applying it.
From an employer’s point of view, a Praxis Framework Practitioner is not only someone with a very practical knowledge set but can also make immediate use of Praxis resources that help them apply their knowledge in a very visible way.
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