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Just as it sounds, iAPSCC® is about recognizing your value-contribution potential through your IC (Intellectual Capital) as you earn your status as a maintenance or project planner, scheduler, or cost controller to ensure you receive the recognition and rewards you deserve for the contributions you make to businesses and projects internationally, and to increase your rewards through ongoing advocation, mentorship, and support. In short, we recognize your acquired knowledge, experience, and accomplishments and quantify them into a status that best reflects your value-contribution potential and the rewards you deserve for your recognized status.
Open Members have access to free materials in the form of best practices related to planning, scheduling, and cost control to enhance business and project performance. Open Members automatically subscribe to our newsletters, with access to weekly blog posts; however, Open Members do not receive an earned-value status, nor do they qualify for representation by iAPSCC®. Sustaining Members pay annual dues and receive full access to materials, tools, and videos. Sustaining Members also receive the benefit of earned-value status related to their IC (Intellectual Capital).
IC (Intellectual Capital) is the value of knowledge and experience you’ve acquired either by years of working in a particular industry role, attending school, apprenticeships, self-study, or any number of ways in which you learn, which is valuable to those who recognize it. In other words, it’s not just the financial capital that makes you rich, it’s your knowledge and experience, your ability to invest, and your ability to offer it to employers, contractors, or clients to increase their business and project performance. This value-contribution potential is incredibly valuable, hence, iAPSCC® Recognition Platform advocates for those whose value-contribution potential is very significant: maintenance and project planners, schedulers, and cost controllers. When we calculate your IC, you earn the equivalent status. See Members page for status descriptions.
No, not as such, although you can learn by joining the iAPSCC® Recognition Platform as an Open Member or a Sustaining Member. However, it’s essential to understand that iAPSCC® is, first and foremost, a recognition platform, not a training platform. There are numerous training sites and learning opportunities (in various forms) globally for maintenance and project planners, schedulers, and cost controllers to enhance their knowledge and increase their level of confidence and competence. Unfortunately, however, the investment in time and money to acquire knowledge and experience as a maintenance or project planner, scheduler, or cost controller is often not returned with any recognized benefit, e.g., hiring potential, increased salary, higher position, full-time work, benefits, and so on—hence our intention to advocate for you; to quantify your IC (Intellectual Capital) into a recognized status of professionalism so you can be rewarded for your commitment and value-contribution potential to employers, contractors, or clients internationally.
Yes, anyone interested in contributing to business and project performance in any role can join iAPSCC® as an Open Member; however, to participate as a Sustaining Member, your aim must be to become recognized and rewarded for your value-contribution potential as a maintenance or project planner, scheduler, or cost controller.
IAPSCC® Recognition Platform FAQs
We are an international organization, with the goal of advocating for maintenance and project planners, schedulers, and cost-control analysts, but we are also a community. We want to keep you informed and up-to-date on events, potential trainings, and information that may be relevant to you locally or regionally.
No, you pay only the monthly or annual dues of a Sustaining Member. Your investment in time and costs related to non-iAPSCC® training, experience, volunteering, or other is up to you, which you must consider as you strive to earn a higher iAPSCC® credential status. You cannot pay to earn a higher status on the iAPSCC® Recognition Platform.
Refer to the Membership page for iAPSCC® status descriptions and benefits.
We use a combination of qualitative information and quantitative data from your IC (Intellectual Capital)—referring to your status regarding knowledge and experience acquired through training, apprenticeships, education, years of work, certificates, and professional references—where we generate your status based on our established SKE (Skills and Knowledge Engine) to determine your IC Score . Upon calculating your IC Score you will receive a secure and unique digital credential—where, if you choose to share within your profile, your name will be posted on the list of Sustaining Achievers on the iAPSCC® Recognition Platform home page and you’ll receive the highest rewards and benefits available in the industry.
Due to the cost of managing membership accounts it is not reasonable to refund Sustaining Members; however, you can choose to cancel your membership at any time without penalty. In addition, you can maintain a Open Membership account if desired (we hope you’ll never have to consider a refund based on the value you receive from iAPSCC®).
International Association of Planners, Schedulers, and Cost Controllers
No, iAPSCC® does not represent Project Managers; however, PMs, PMCs, and other members of maintenance and projects are welcome to register as Open Members.
No, iAPSCC® is not affiliated with any groups, societies, unions, institutions, or associations.
The iAPSCC® was established to advocate for those in the roles of maintenance and project planning, scheduling, and cost control who are not formally recognized with a professional designation and, as such, are not rewarded in accordance with their value-contribution potential in short, these individuals are often underrated, underpaid, and underappreciated. The iAPSCC® aims to change that by advocating for professional designation and increased recognition and rewards (respect, salaries, contracts, benefits, working conditions, and so on).
Yes. Any knowledge or experience, wherever, or however earned contributes to Sustaining Members’ credential status through their ongoing IC (Intellectual Capital) assessment within the iAPSCC® Skills and Knowledge Engine (SKE).