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IPMA Assessor Workshops precede World Congress in Rome
Reported live from the IPMA World Congress in Rome
The IPMA 22nd World Congress on Project Management being held in Rome, Italy during 9-11 November 2008 was preceded by two assessors’ workshops on Saturday, 8 November. An IPMA Certification Assessor Workshop was moderated by former IPMA Chair Gilles Caupin from 14:00 until 17:00 on Saturday afternoon. An IPMA Award Assessors Workshop was moderated by Erik Mansson and Agoston Nagy during 2 – 6:00 p.m. These workshops at IPMA’s annual world congress provide an opportunity for training new assessors and ensuring consistent practices across IPMA member societies and countries.
The IPMA Certification System is based on a network of approximately 35 active national certification bodies that operate local PM certification schemes consistent with IPMA’s Competence Baseline (ICB) and common certification regulations. These are also in line with ISO standard 17024. Through this system, IPMA certification assessors evaluate individual competencies according to IPMA’s 4-level scale. The Certification Assessors Workshop was open to active IPMA certification assessors and directors of IPMA certification bodies.
According to Gilles Caupin, the 2008 Certification Assessors Workshop went well, with around 40 participants, “IPMA’s certification program continues to grow, so we need more assessors. This year’s workshop included participants from several new member countries, and others from around Europe. I think it was a good session.”
(photo: Joseph Alba, Morten Fangen & Gilles Caupin in Rome)
The 2008 IPMA Award Assessors Workshop was open to IPMA Project Excellence award assessors only and was primarily intended to allow exchanges of experiences and ideas on how to improve the awards program. In addition, this year’s session included discussion of a possible new IPMA training program for executives on what Project Excellence could mean for their corporations. Some new ideas were tabled in this interesting exchange.
The local host organizations for the ROMA 2008 World Congress – Project Management to Run - are the Italian Project Management Academy and the Italian National Association of Industrial Plant Engineering (ANIMP). The President of ANIMP is Mr. Fabrizio Di Amato; the President of the Italian PM Academy is Mr. Roberto Mori; the Congress Chairman is Mr. Luigi Iperti; and the Project Manager for IPMA 2008 is Mr. PierMarco Romagnoli. For registration, schedule and other information, visit the conference website at www.ipmaroma2008.it.
Founded in 1967 and registered in Switzerland, the International Project Management Association (IPMA) is the world’s oldest project management professional organization. IPMA is an international federation of more than 45 national PM societies in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas. IPMA’s Annual World Congress is one of the largest and most important gatherings of project management authorities and leaders each year. The president of IPMA for 2008 is Veikko Valila; president-elect for 2009/10 is Brigette Schaden. Additional information about IPMA is available at www.ipma.ch.
Reported live from Rome by David Pells and Nelson Soucek who were covering the IPMA world congress for PMForum, along with a number of PMForum global advisors and international correspondents.
The IPMA 22nd World Congress on Project Management being held in Rome, Italy during 9-11 November 2008 was preceded by two assessors’ workshops on Saturday, 8 November. An IPMA Certification Assessor Workshop was moderated by former IPMA Chair Gilles Caupin from 14:00 until 17:00 on Saturday afternoon. An IPMA Award Assessors Workshop was moderated by Erik Mansson and Agoston Nagy during 2 – 6:00 p.m. These workshops at IPMA’s annual world congress provide an opportunity for training new assessors and ensuring consistent practices across IPMA member societies and countries.
The IPMA Certification System is based on a network of approximately 35 active national certification bodies that operate local PM certification schemes consistent with IPMA’s Competence Baseline (ICB) and common certification regulations. These are also in line with ISO standard 17024. Through this system, IPMA certification assessors evaluate individual competencies according to IPMA’s 4-level scale. The Certification Assessors Workshop was open to active IPMA certification assessors and directors of IPMA certification bodies.
(photo: Joseph Alba, Morten Fangen & Gilles Caupin in Rome)
The 2008 IPMA Award Assessors Workshop was open to IPMA Project Excellence award assessors only and was primarily intended to allow exchanges of experiences and ideas on how to improve the awards program. In addition, this year’s session included discussion of a possible new IPMA training program for executives on what Project Excellence could mean for their corporations. Some new ideas were tabled in this interesting exchange.
Founded in 1967 and registered in Switzerland, the International Project Management Association (IPMA) is the world’s oldest project management professional organization. IPMA is an international federation of more than 45 national PM societies in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas. IPMA’s Annual World Congress is one of the largest and most important gatherings of project management authorities and leaders each year. The president of IPMA for 2008 is Veikko Valila; president-elect for 2009/10 is Brigette Schaden. Additional information about IPMA is available at www.ipma.ch.
Reported live from Rome by David Pells and Nelson Soucek who were covering the IPMA world congress for PMForum, along with a number of PMForum global advisors and international correspondents.
