Project Management Chartered Standard
(ChPP)

An initial one day face-to-face workshop covers the application process including a review of the principal background information. It also focuses on the need to demonstrate both knowledge and application. Background information includes:

• A record of employment history
• A brief overview of two or more projects/programmes/portfolios from within the last 7 years that will be used as evidence
• Demonstration of working with uncertainty or conflicting objectives
• Dealing with high severity risks or high levels of unpredictability
• Managing multiple work packages/projects/programmes
• Engagement with multiple, interdependent stakeholders, possibly with competing interests
• A record of 35 hours CPD from the previous 12 months
• Details of two referees

Each candidate is provided with a qualified ChPP coach, who understands the process fully and is able to provide support and guidance in the preparation of the application. This can be done either remotely or face to face.

For candidates who have successfully completed the application process there will be a further workshop to prepare the candidate for the interview stage. This will include a checklist of preparation and candidates will be coached on how to develop their interviewing skills around the material they have presented.

The APM ChPP is available to anyone, from any professional background, with relevant experience of managing others in a complex project environment. Successful candidates will be awarded this coveted designation and also become full members of the Association for Project Management.

The ChPP application process is designed to build a comprehensive picture of the candidate as a competent project professional. Candidates require a sufficient breadth of technical knowledge, the practical competence to apply that knowledge, and a commitment to continuing professional development and ethical practice. This needs to be demonstrated in one of two ways:

1. A candidate who is already in possession of the APM Practitioner Qualification or the APM Project Professional Qualification only needs to demonstrate the application of the relevant knowledge.
2. A candidate who does not possess either the APM PQ or PPQ qualification will need to provide evidence of knowledge as well as demonstrate the application of that knowledge.