BPM certification supports the advancement of BPM professionals by providing a way to measure and document the knowledge and skills required to be recognized as a competent practitioner. BPM certification helps employers define job objectives, evaluate position candidates, assess employee performance and motivate employees to enhance their skills and knowledge. Certified BPMPs enhance their professional experience by obtaining recognition of their competency, and proving that they are professionally qualified to practice their profession.
The exam covers the elements of the BPM discipline which includes Concepts and Principles, Process Modeling, Process Improvement (Analysis & Design), Process Measurement, Process Technologies (BPMN, BPMS), BPM Governance and BPM Center of Excellence. Certified BPMPs are able to demonstrate the knowledge and skills to be productive members of a BPM team. These skills include building hierarchical process models, using tools to analyze and assess process performance, defining critical process metrics, using best practice principles to redesign processes, developing process improvement project plans, building a center of excellence and establishing process governance.
"Lack of sufficient business process skills continues to dog progress and momentum for enterprise wide business process management (BPM) initiatives. Yet when it comes to growing BPM skills, most programs adopt a wait-and-see attitude in hopes that the required skills will evolve organically as the program matures. Ultimately, this wait-and-see attitude leads to an ongoing over-reliance on BPM software vendor professional services and systems integrator resources, eating away at crucial return on investment (ROI) that could be invested back into new BPM projects and resources."
- Forrester Research
It’s no coincidence that those organizations with the most successful BPM programs also have a well defined skills development program. The current business process “skills gap” in most organizations is needlessly delaying the improvement of enterprise wide business processes.
In recent Gartner surveys, respondents cited a lack of resources and a lack of expertise as two of the top three reasons for their BPM initiatives failing - the first being organizational politics. This resource constraint is being felt by end-user, vendor, and consulting and system integration (C&SI) organizations alike. The skill set required to be successful in BPM is broad and deep, requiring a blend of hard and soft skills, from process modeling to organizational change management.
"BPM certification has the potential to add value in four different scenarios:
- Gartner
In order to ensure that the Certified Business Process Management Professional exam represents a fair and accurate evaluation of a person’s knowledge, skill and ability, the exam was created in conjunction with an independent third-party BPM exam certification committee and was developed under procedures to specifically address the national standards for fairness in testing to address validity and reliability. The result is an assessment that is not only accurate but a fair assessment of BPM professionals.
Test development procedure included:
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