Compliance training is what most people think of when talking about compliance – making sure that an employee’s training is up to date. But that is just one part of the wider compliance / competence landscape which can encompass competency, certifications, and authorisations; often made up of some training elements, some validation steps to ensure…
Many internal and independent project audits highlight the mismatch of project manager competence and project risk. That is, the project manager may not be capable or experienced enough to delivery a high risk project, or conversely a highly skilled project manager may be delivering a low risk, task based project: a potential waste of a…
The Centre for Digital Built Britain is a partnership between the Department of Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy and the University of Cambridge to understand how the construction and infrastructure sectors could use a digital approach to better design, build, operate, and integrate the built environment. SNC Lavalin, a fully integrated professional services and project…
The Association of Project Management (APM) has launched the 3rd Edition of their popular competence framework. The new edition includes 2 new competencies – Sustainability, and Diversity and inclusion – taking the total number of competencies in the framework to 29, up from 27 in the 2nd edition which came out in 2015. Along with…
Department of International Trade (DIT), Ministry of Justice (MoJ) , Department for Education (DfE), UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) join the growing number of UK Government departments and professions who have chosen comaea competency management software to manage digital skills for their colleagues. Smaller departments can benefit…
It is widely accepted that developing competency can be achieved through training, research, experiential (on the job) learning, and certification/validation amongst others. The important and hugely valuable area of experiential learning is one Comaea has dealt with in the past with on-the-job checklists and manager validation/approval of competence. This has and still serves a purpose,…
The Government KIM (GKIM) profession is one of the Civil Service Professions. It is made up of civil servants who curate knowledge and manage information in all its forms – assets that critically underpin the work of government. GKIM professionals work in a range of disciplines, including information rights (Data Protection, Freedom of Information, Environmental…
Comaea, the global competency management software provider, has been awarded a contract to work with the DWP Digital (the digital team for the Department for Work and Pensions) over the next two years to support and enhance skills capture and career development across their 5000 digital professionals. The contract comes after a rigorous selection process…
The UK Government Security Profession has recently awarded a contract to comaea for the provision of an online skills capability tool for the Government Security Profession. Comaea will host the Security Profession Career Framework and it will be made available across government to all security professionals over the next 2 years. Already widely used across…
As part of the Network Rail ongoing professionalisation of their project delivery functions, a pilot has been initiated to use the comaea competency management system to offer new way develop their people, inform future business decisions, and provide effective mobilisation of their workforce. Aligning with the UK Government’s widely used Project Delivery Capability Framework which…
Following the recent launch of their PMO Competency framework, the House of PMO have chosen to partner with comaea to enable their members to self-assess themselves against a variety of PMO roles across the four contexts of project, programme, portfolio and centre of excellence. The PMO competency framework has been preloaded into comaea and members…