Good morning.
In this video I will be talking about a comparison of two things.
We often see posts on social media, and people sending messages requesting, or asking for help.
They want people
to help them decide
between a project management certification
like the PMP.
I mean, it could be other than a PMP but the most common question often relate to the PMP. Or, a master's degree in project
management. So a PMP or MPM.
And
it is challenging to respond to these questions
without
maybe being too direct, or to open, or honest, and
obviously we believe if someone is posting such a question,
they want an honest answer.
I usually respond to those questions, and here I'm doing so through this video as well
and where we can share with people who have a question about
whether they should pursue a professional certification in project management or an MS degree
in project management. The first things we want to say here is that
it's hard to compare, because it's technically like you're comparing
apples and grapes.
Or
a
sport vehicle with a Mini Cooper.
So it's not somethings that are readily
comparable.
Why?
Well one is, whether the PMP or something else or prince2 or something else,
it's a professional certification, and
usually people can obtain that certification
with a little bit of study and
maybe like for example the PMP require one course,
35 hours of training, which is equivalent to one course in a university, semester-based
system.
Typically a university semester that follows a semester system a course is a
roughly 35 to 39 hours of study,
PMI required 35 hours of study in
preparation.
Some other certifications do not require any preparatory courses.
It's up to you, how you prepare and study for a given certification.
However, what I'm saying is that, it's a professional certification obtained
possibly after a course or no course by passing an exam, one
exam. PRINCE2
Foundation for example have one exam seventy-five questions.
PMI CAPM is a three-hour exam, and the PMP is a 4-hour exam and so forth
and so on.
So it is a professional certification,
it could be obtained by passing a single exam, after meeting a certain pre qualification
requirements.
And it's often, for many of these certifications, a degree, a university degree is not even required.
Okay, so that is what
certification. Is it popular? Sure PRINCE2 is popular in the UK and among companies who subscribe to the British system.
The PMP is probably the most recognized project management certification in the world.
That is the most popular,
and other certification may be
as popular, or not as popular. Obviously nothing as popular as the PMP in term, I think if I'm not mistaken,
because I think we are closing on 900,000 PMPs around the world today.
And now you've always hear me say popular, that doesn't mean it's the best. Yes it is
recognized, it is the most recognized, and it is popular. So
it has value.
Now, let's put things to the side whether the PMP or PRINCE2 or GPM or another certification.
Each of those certifications have some value.
Great!
We have that. Let's shift to a master's degree.
Now as far as I know, the minimum,
minimum requirement for a master's degree
in most universities, is at least
two semester or nine months of study; and
usually 4 module per semester. That means eight major modules. This is one. This is the most basic,
fastest master's degrees, that I have seen out there.
A typical master's degree in the university system like the US for example, it's 36
credit hours.
Which mean is somewhat equivalent to 12 courses.
Each course, meaning, being three credit hours. Of course in a European system, or a quarter based system
the number of credits might be different but for example a typical master's degree in the US is at
36 (credit) hours.
Maybe it consists of 30 (credit) hours of class work and six hours for a project, or
maybe a little bit more allowed for a thesis.
But the bottom line, to achieve the master's degree, people have
to take, and
ideally, they should be passing as many as eight courses as a minimum.
This is assuming the fastest process which is the nine-month semester, or one-year programs, usually about eight
modules or eight courses.
Whereas another university or full program would be definitely more than that. So as a minimum,
the candidate must pass
and take at least eight to twelve courses if they don't have to put a thesis or work on a project
to satisfy the requirement of obtaining the master's degree.
So obviously in terms of learning, in terms of education hours, contact hours, a master's degree is
significantly higher in
terms of
learning content. And of course assuming it is from a good university, you are working with
good professors, and then of course a value could be even higher,
especially if the universities also subscribe to
the concept of where people have to work in teams on projects and they have to deliver a project.
So in my view, there is no question about it, in terms of learning
about the value of the master's degree and how it is different versus a PM certification.
Okay? So
if nothing else all things equal, I have no doubt which one I would choose if a candidate come to apply for me
with a certification and limited experience or with a master's degree.
Now that brings me to the argument that the people who defend certification say. "Ah, the PMP and other certification might require experience."
Well a master's degree, yeah, sure some universities do require experience.
Like I know I've worked with one University where they required at minimum three years experience before they allow somebody in the master's program.
However, obviously we are comparing here, assuming, a candidate good just for a master's degree with no experience and someone have three
years experience and that case I would look at the master's degree as just one year experience and I'll compare three years experience
outside, one year with the university obviously out if I want more experience, I would go with the higher level experience.
Just because the certification, it doesn't mean anything!
So to make it clear,
some two candidates come to me, one with a PMP or PRINCE2 and three years experience, and
one come to me with the master's degree and three years experience. If the two candidates have equal type of similar
personalities, similar structure, similar knowledge,
you know, the only differentiator is three letters, is a degree or a PMP? I'll take the degree. No questions asked, okay?
But obviously hiring is not as simple as just looking at a degree,
you would want to talk to the person, and I would want to see who is the person, who really understand project management, or memorize
project management, whether the certificate holder or the degree holder.
I want to be able to see that they can think, they can apply, they can
rationalize what's going on.
So these are in general a quick comparison between the two the two two items;
a certificate, professional certification, and an academic
university degree.
Now I want to shift to
something else related to universities, and related to the market.
Yes, the market, when the market, hiring manager
prefer a certification over a degree, I
really have to look beyond the reason for that, and I can visualize
two major reasons why that will happen;
assuming
the hiring manager knows what they're doing.
One is
that
they don't really fully understand
the difference between the two; in this case
I referred them to the previous part of the video and they can compare and understand what the difference between them.
There is a perception, of course, that certification is like guaranteed competence;
it's not. I don't want to go into certification at this stage. So I'm gonna focus on the idea is when the market
considers these questions,
PMP or MPM or MS,
the Master of Science degree, that's indicate that usually those people the hiring manager or the recruitment do not
understand the difference between the two,
okay? Or
to give them the benefit of the doubt
universities are doing a lousy job in preparing project management
professionals, and in their degrees
maybe they are being to academics where the people are learning how to pass exam at the university level,
or just by passing or getting by rather
they're really understanding how to apply project management. So
again, hiring manager
you need to go beyond
those three letters the short letters. You need obviously, you need to understand the candidate experience,
you need to understand the candidate background, their ability to think independently,
the ability to analyze, and not to follow orders or not to follow a memorization
technique.
This is why we posted, for example, what I call the Ajam Acid Interview Questions, which I was really looking in many of them,
you know
It's easy answers and some of them are challenging because I would want to see how the candidate think, how they can analyze the question.
These are the things that are important. So please, I close this video with a message to universities,
What do you want
to achieve in term of recognition, if your candidates, or your graduates go out in the world
with a master's degree in project management, and they still do not know how to apply the basics of project management?
So in this video my message has been to people who are asking the question about
PMP,
PM certification, or PM
graduate degrees.
It is in a way touching on
recruiters and manager who hire and what they should look for in the candidate, and of course at the end the universities
to really look at what they are producing in term of the graduates.
Thank you




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