- 6th Process area added
- Insuring Integrity and professionalism
- Contributing to the project management knowledge base
- Enhancing individual competence
- Balancing Stakeholders’ interests
- Interacting with team and stakeholders in a professional and cooperative manner
- Could be approx. 30 questions in this area
- Understand Project Management Professional Code of Conduct
- Ethics
- Legal Issues
- Cultural Sensitivity
- Managing conflicts of interest
- Understand the legal requirements surrounding the practice of projects
- Know ethical standards that should govern the behavior of project managers
- Comprehend the values of the community and the various project stakeholders
- Practice proper judgment in the pursuit of successful project work
- Compliance with all organizational rules and policies
- Upon a reasonable and clear factual basis report violations
- Responsibility to disclose circumstances that could be construed as a conflict of interest or appearance of impropriety
- Provide accurate and truthful representation to the public
- Maintain and satisfy the scope and objectives of professional services
- Maintain the confidentiality of sensitive information
- Ensure a conflict of interest does not compromise legitimate interests of client/customer or interfere with professional judgment
- Refrain from accepting gifts, inappropriate payments, compensation for personal gain unless in conformity with applicable laws or customs
Contribute to advancing the project management profession
- Overall understanding of project management principles
- Understand the community and media surrounding projects
- Knowledge of research strategies available and proper communication techniques
- Learn to communicate and transfer knowledge effectively as a coach and mentor and to use available research strategies
- Respect and recognize intellectual property
Enhance Individual Competence
- Understand the project manager’s strengths and weaknesses and learning style – become aware of instructional processes and tools
- Know the useful competencies for project managers and possible training
- Be able to perform self-assessment and competencies development plan
- Ability to apply lessons learned
Balance Stakeholder’s Objectives
- Understand the various competing stakeholders’ interests and needs
- Comprehend the conflict resolution techniques useful in handling differing objectives
- Be able to resolve conflicts in a fair manner
- Exercise negotiation skills based on proper information
Interact with team and stakeholders in a professional and cooperative manner
- Understand cultural diversity, norms and stakeholders’ communication styles
- Show flexibility towards diversity, tolerance and self control
- Becoming empathetic to differences