Project Management Certification - The Workshop

I've just concluded my level 'C' certification workshop. It was a lot more fun then the previous exam I did for the level 'D' certification. It's the final stage for the APOGEP level 'C' certification. Earier I posted the certification stages.

The certification had 8 candidates - 7 to 'C' level and a 'B' level one, and almost as much people from APOGEP. It was an all day event in a nice hotel in Lisboa's downtown.

The workshop had the 3 components:

• a project audit
• a project role playing
• an interview

They were all very fun to do. In the project audit, we were given a project documentation folder, and had to identify problems and correspondent solutions. Then did a couple of role playing, were we were casted into the roles involved in project management, in pairs, in front of a jury.

Has this was part of an examination, obviously only the auditing capabilities of the process were involved. These processes have an educational potential I feal we have to unleash - project auditing and role playing seems like a great way to share project management best practices, and to help us correcting some limitations we all have.

Finally the workshop ended with an interview, where we defended the report we been working on in the last months. The report was a resumee of our project management experience.

And so my project management workshop is over. Hope that the results of the exam will be positive for all of us.