Project Management Professional Certifications
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- Association for Project Management
- Australian Institute of Project Management
- IPMA Validated Four-Level Certification Programme
- Project Management Institute
Association for Project Management
APM qualifications are designed to meet the needs of a project manager
throughout their career. APM's qualifications are aligned with IPMA's
4-level Certification Program.
All qualifications, apart from the Certificated Project Manager
qualification, are delivered through APM Accredited Training Providers.
Details of the qualifications on offer and how to contact each Training
Provider can be found at
http://www.apm.org.uk/professionaldevelopment.asp.
Introductory Certificate: for anyone looking to understand the principles of project management.
APMP (IPMA Level D): for people with up to two years' project management
experience.
Practitioner Qualification (IPMA Level C): for anyone with more than three years of project management experience.
Certificated Project Manager (IPMA Level B): for project managers with extensive experience in managing complex, multi-disciplinary projects.
APM Project Risk Management Certificates: APM offers level one and level two certificates for project and programme managers involved in project risk assessment in any way.
For more information about our qualifications, please contact profdev@apm.org.uk
Australian Institute of Project Management
RegPM (Registered
Project Manager) is AIPM’s competency-based Project Management
Certification Program. It is fully aligned with the Australian Qualifications
Framework (AQF) and based on individual assessment against the National Competency
Standards for Project Management. It is awarded on three levels: Level
4 (Qualified
Project Practitioner); Level 5 (Registered Project Manager);
and Level
6 (Master Project Director).
Further information and contacts RegPM are available at http://www.aipm.com.au. Email questions are welcome at info@aipm.com.au.
IPMA Validated Four-Level Certification Programme
The
International Project Management Association (IPMA) has developed a Four-Level
Certification Programme. The main requirements for each level are:
- The certificated programme director (CPD) shall have the ability to direct all projects of a programme or all projects of a company/branch or to manage a complex project with major partners from different international cultures.
- The certificated project manager (CPM) shall be able to manage complex projects him/herself
- The registered project management professional can manage non-complex projects him/herself and assist the manager of a complex project in all fields of project management
- The project management Fachman/Fachfrau/practitioner (PMF) shall have project management knowledge and may be applying is on some fields as a specialist
Two publications support the IPMA Validated Four-Level Certification Programmes. These are:
The IPMA Competence Baseline (ICB, 1999) which explains the IPMA certification programmes and shows the core and additional elements of the knowledge and experience as well as the aspects of the personal behaviour and general impression for the certification of project management competence, and
the IPMA Certification Yearbook which shows the concept of the four level certification and lists the actual certificates and assessors fo the national certification bodies.
For further information on IPMA contact the Secretariat office:
International Project Management Association
PO Box 30 Monmouthshire NP5 4YZ
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 1594 531007 Fax: +44 1594 531008
Email:
ipma@btinternet.com
or visit the IPMA web site at: www.ipma.ch
Project Management Institute
Project
Management Professional (PMP®)
Certification Handbooks
The Project Management Institute's Project Management Professional (PMP®) Certification Handbooks can be downloaded in PDF format from the PMI® web site. These handbooks contain information on applying and sitting for the PMP® Exam, Exam Applications and the Experience Verification form.