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Can you get certified on ISO 21500 as an individual.pdf

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Sadashiw Patil
Sadashiw Patil

ISO 21500 is an organizational standard for project management, not an individual standard. As such, individuals cannot currently be certified in ISO 21500 like they can with ISO 9001. However, organizations can perform self-assessments against ISO 21500. While ISO 21500 cannot provide individual certification now, it provides globally accepted best practices that can help organizations shift from reactive to proactive project management and create a shared understanding to improve project communications and teamwork.

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Sensitivity: general Can you get certified on ISO 21500 as an individual? As ISO 21500 is an organizational standard, with currently the status of a guideline or ‘informative standard’ one cannot obtain an ISO certification like with ISO 9001. It is expected that over time, when the market shows an interest, the guideline can be upgraded to a ‘normative standard’. In that case organizations can be certified by nationally acknowledged accreditation bodies. In the meantime, however, organizations can perform a ‘self- assessment’ ( Can you get certified on ISO 21500 as an individual? Because ISO 21500 as ‘informative standard’ now, or ‘normative standard’ in the future, is aiming at organizations and not at individuals, individual certification is not possible. How can ISO 21500 support you in real-life application? As ISO 21500 is based on globally recognized and accepted good practices, it can effectively act as a ‘foundational worldwide lessons learned database’ for project management. Based on its structure and well-defined processes, it will turn the mind-set in organizations from an ‘ad-hoc’ and fire-fighting mode (reactive management), which is still too often experienced in projects, towards a more proactively oriented and well-organized approach (project management). It enables you, your project team and project stakeholders, when faced with challenging project situations, to proactively refer to the appropriate project management processes and fine-tune these to your project. It directly enhances project communications by creating a common understanding of ‘projects’, ‘a shared vision on how tobest manage these’, resulting in a shared project managementapproach for successful teamwork.

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Can you get certified on ISO 21500 as an individual.pdf

  • 1. Sensitivity: general Can you get certified on ISO 21500 as an individual? As ISO 21500 is an organizational standard, with currently the status of a guideline or ‘informative standard’ one cannot obtain an ISO certification like with ISO 9001. It is expected that over time, when the market shows an interest, the guideline can be upgraded to a ‘normative standard’. In that case organizations can be certified by nationally acknowledged accreditation bodies. In the meantime, however, organizations can perform a ‘self- assessment’ ( Can you get certified on ISO 21500 as an individual? Because ISO 21500 as ‘informative standard’ now, or ‘normative standard’ in the future, is aiming at organizations and not at individuals, individual certification is not possible. How can ISO 21500 support you in real-life application? As ISO 21500 is based on globally recognized and accepted good practices, it can effectively act as a ‘foundational worldwide lessons learned database’ for project management. Based on its structure and well-defined processes, it will turn the mind-set in organizations from an ‘ad-hoc’ and fire-fighting mode (reactive management), which is still too often experienced in projects, towards a more proactively oriented and well-organized approach (project management). It enables you, your project team and project stakeholders, when faced with challenging project situations, to proactively refer to the appropriate project management processes and fine-tune these to your project. It directly enhances project communications by creating a common understanding of ‘projects’, ‘a shared vision on how tobest manage these’, resulting in a shared project managementapproach for successful teamwork.