International Project Management Association

The International Project Management Association ( IPMA) is an outgoing of Europe GLOBAL NETWORK project management association and certification body.

History

It was first established in 1965 only as a discussion of international project manager and was until 1994 the name of INTERNET. The first international congress was held in 1967 in Vienna. Under the umbrella of IPMA are about 40 national project management associations, together with more than 40,000 members. For example, the ASAPM is ( American Society for the Advancement of Project Management), the national organization of the United States.

It was formally established in 1979 and chose Switzerland as the seat of the Secretariat and society, international expert seminars on the Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute were carried out in Rüschlikon. The current headquarters of the company (as of April 2012) Nijkerk in the Netherlands.

Organization

The national associations professionalize project management, taking into account country- specific cultural requirements. However, to ensure a consistently high quality and maintaining common standards, the IPMA IPMA Competence Baseline ( ICB) issued in 1999. It represents the basis of the national project management baselines, which in turn is the basis for the national certification programs.

Project management model

Content, the project management knowledge elements were given differentiated in the ICB after mandatory and optional elements to 2007, which are accordingly recover in the national project management baselines.

As of 2007, can be set by all national associations, the new ICB 3.0 into force at the latest by January 1, 2008 must. The ICB 3.0 (IPMA Competence Baseline ) is by IPMA in English only issued (as opposed to ICB 2.0 which was published in English, French and German by IPMA ).

The ICB 3.0 includes the following three areas of expertise ( in a so called eye of competence summarized. ):

• Behavioural Competences (15 behavioral competencies ) - such as: openness, effectiveness, leadership, results orientation, negotiation, conflict and crises, and so on.

• Contextual Competences (11 Context-specific skills) - for example: project orientation, program orientation, portfolio guidance, personnel management, finance, legal aspects, etc..

• Technical Competences ( 20 Technical Competencies ) - eg: project management, project structures, risks and opportunities, resources, costs and finances, time and project phases, goals and results, communication, project start, project completion, and so on.

All 46 skills are depending on the level of certification ( Level A - Level D) checked in varying degrees, these guidelines are but the same for all countries. The ICB 3.0 thus represents a further step towards globally binding project management standards dar.

Certification

The IPMA offers a four-step certification system (4 -LC). Ensuring the high quality level of this system lies in Germany the responsibility of the certification body of GPM (PM- Cert ) and in Austria at the PMA. Here, a two -member team of assessors is used for each certificate level, which provides the knowledge, the experience and personality of the aspirant to the test. There are defined the following certificate Level:

The required knowledge for the certification and the classification of the respective certificate level can be viewed on the basis of ICB 3.0 (IPMA Competence Baseline ).

The recertifications are at every five years.

Project Excellence Award

The IPMA awarded since 2002 to project teams who demonstrate excellence in project management, the IPMA International Project Excellence Award. This was from the German Project Excellence Award ( Formerly: " German Project Management Award " ) developed by the GPM awards in Germany since 1996. Project teams can apply to the Germans or the International Project Excellence Award. For the best teams there are three stages:

Candidates will be evaluated by a multi-step process ( Assessment) of each of a five-member team of assessors. The decision to award one of the said award levels hits a top-class jury.

IPMA in Germany

In Germany, the IPMA is represented by the GPM German Association for Project Management Association. In the GPM are nationwide more than 5,000 project managers and companies together in more than 35 GPM regions. Thus, the GPM is in Germany, the largest association of project managers. By December 31, 2012, the PM- Cert, the certification body of GPM, assign the following certificate level in Germany:

The required knowledge for certification has in the standard work -based project management competence ( PM3 ) GPM: combined manual for the project, qualification and certification based on the IPMA Competence Baseline Version 3.0. The classification on the respective certificate level can be made ​​on the basis of the project manager taxonomy.

IPMA in Austria

In Austria the IPMA is represented by the Management Austria (PMA ) project.

IPMA in Switzerland

The Swiss Project Management Association ( spm ) represents Switzerland as an exclusive member of the IPMA. The certifications made ​​through the VZPM, the certification body in Switzerland.

Number of Certified in Switzerland (as of December 2013)

• IPMA Level A total of 61
• IPMA Level B total 1,088
• IPMA Level C total 1'747
• IPMA Level D total 6'420

Competitors

In addition to the IPMA with their national organizations (such as ASAPM, APM), there are other reputable project management organizations that carry out international certifications, such as the PMI and AIPM.