Measure of Competency - Aligning Tasks to Competency Standards

I hope you're having a great morning, because every morning you go in to start your work career, focus on making every day count. Focus on making every task count. Every hour of every task should go toward making you a competent architect.

So now I've gone through all of the AXP tasks and made a first pass, sort of assignment of where I think that task would align with which competency. It makes sense that the tasks that were associated with construction and bidding follow under competencies nine and 10 that are the Construction Administration Domain, the tasks that are more design oriented and research and preparation oriented for design, follow under the Design and Documentation Domain, and then all the tasks that are associated with practice, management, team, management, team, leadership, business and organization of contracts and clients, all fall under the Practice and Project Management Domain.

Since there's only three domains, and we have multiple competencies under each of those domains, it actually gets simpler to identify which task will contribute to which competency.

It doesn't mean doing a task one time is going to give you that competency. That's why there's so many hours required in the AXP. If there's say, 160 hours required in this particular AXP area, and these tasks fall under these competencies. How might that 160 hours be distributed? Should it be equal? Should it be weighted? I don't know that there's any one competency that's more important than any other.

It sort of follows the order of what we do on projects, but it doesn't necessarily mean that anything's more important than something else. By assigning more hours for the documentation area of the AXP, you've got a lot of hours that go into that, but that just means you're going to be doing more tasks for those and that covers more competency areas.

So I'm going to make a copy of this and make it available, perhaps either through LinkedIn or on my YouTube channel or both. And I'm also going to make it available on my Facebook page. I've got a group called The Newly Licensed Architect. Jump in there and join that, because I'm going to be posting all of these videos in that location in addition to my YouTube channel. The nice thing about the YouTube channel is that it's searchable, so take a look at those, and you'll start to see the organization here, and maybe that'll help you guide your tasks toward more efficient, achievement, and better competency.