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| Project Management is emerging as a true profession in its own right. PM certification is becoming increasingly popular in matured and emerging economies like USA, Japan, Europe, China and South Africa. India has little choice except to embrace modern PM principles and become faster, better and cheaper to withstand the pressures from global companies.
In the last 5 to 6 years the certification of project management professionals has grown exponentially. Every profession has its own certification and Project Management is no exception. The dismal record of completing projects on time and within cost world wide, necessitated the need for identifying better project managers who could symbolise a perfect blend of knowledge, skills, and experience. Thus greater emphasis was laid on PM training, acquiring skills and PM certification.
International Project Management Association (IPMA), a federally structured association of 41 member countries that are primarily from Europe has developed the 4 Level Certification (4LC) in project management. This is adopted by all the member associations of IPMA including India and China.
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PMA has signed an agreement with IPMA to conduct the first, knowledge level i.e. Level “D” certification of the IPMA model in India and award the IPMA-D certificates. The above test is fully accredited by IPMA and recognized all over the world.
PMA started Level-D certification in December 2000 in India. The IPMA-D certification exam is held 4 times in a year - in the month of Feb/May/August and November every year. PMA has already conducted fifteen successful IPMA-D (formerly qpmp) exams so far and the next
examination is due on 11th May , 08. The Second batch of Levels “C” & “B” was held in November 2007 and Third batch is scheduled for April, 2008.Level “A” to be started following year.
The IPMA-D exam consists of 2 papers- Paper1 and Paper2 each of 2 hrs duration & held on the same day . IPMA-D exam lays more stress on a persons past project management experience and evaluates their ability to manage a complex project environment, and understanding of time, cost, earned value, project scheduling, risk management, resource management, control, and other latest developments in this field world over.
The next IPMA-D exam is being held on 11th May , 08 at 8 locations - New Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Baroda, Dehradun, Hyderabad, Pune and Bangalore.
PMA is the only organization authorized to conduct the IPMA 4 Level certification exam in India and it awards certificates recognized by IPMA, Switzerland. As the national association of PM professionals, PMA is happy that Indian industry is gradually adopting the above certification for their project managers to help them upgrade their skills just like their counterparts in USA, Europe, China and South Africa and become more equipped to compete internationally by avoiding time/cost over runs. |
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