The Framework
The AM Competency Categories
There is no one thing an organization can do to achieve sustainable infrastructure service delivery. AM is about managing all the things required to sustainably deliver the right level of service. This means building a robust understanding of all of a community’s service needs and the asset systems required for those needs, then implementing good practices for acquiring, operating and maintaining those asset systems across their entire life cycle. For an organization to do this successfully, it must build competencies and practices in six main areas, as illustrated below.
These six interconnected areas are the AM Competency Categories. Each category forms a piece of the larger whole of AM. Within each one, there are two AM Competencies, which are the key competencies enabling that aspect of AM.
The AM Competency Categories are broadly based on the FCM’s AM Readiness Scale (AMRS). The product of a previous MAMP initiative, the AMRS is a tool to assist communities in evaluating an organization’s level of maturity in AM.
The first four AM Competency Categories (People & Leadership, Policy & Governance, Planning & Decision-Making, and Data & Information) are the same in the AMRS. The fifth area described in the AMRS is the “Contribution to Asset Management Practice” area. This has been adapted into the “AM Practice” category, which is focused on the competencies related to the unique concepts, activities and methods that make up AM practice. A sixth AM Competency Category, “Life Cycle Delivery”, has been added to address the on-the-ground aspects of AM and managing infrastructure.
The framework diagram illustrates how the AM Competency Categories fit together into the framework, and how the AM Competencies are aligned under each category. The categories are described in the following table.
