Why project management certification?

Project management has been around since the dawn of time. Imagine trying to figure out the best way to build a fire for the very first time or to catch a large mammoth without being hurt! Humans have always figured out a way to improve the way things are done. In Late Middle Ages, imagine the scale of the Sistine Chapel artwork and other great works of art commissioned, and the building of incredible architecture, and, in a lot of cases, creating better ways of doing battle and organizing their troops. In the industrial age, project management applied to constructing tall buildings, ships, and trains, and utilizing new machinery to improve commerce and living. Now, we are in the technological age and even though we are still constructing buildings, trains, planes, and automobiles, we are finding ourselves with new types of projects that require best practices all of their own.

Many project management best practices have stood the test of time...