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Project Management certification applies broadly to project and program management in many domains/industries. The designation is applied as a service sector professional activity.
CIPPM is an international association and center of advanced communication, research, and learning for professional project managers and those interested in project management. CIPPM exists to serve, support, and advance project and quality management which serves society, including public and private business, politics, and social. Founded in 1987, CIPPM is a non-profit organization located in Ann Arbor, Michigan (United States) at the Univerisity of Michigan and sub-affiliated with MIT. CIPPM is an Affiliated Research Partner with these institutions.
CIPPM provides certification in the form of approval of PMs and organizations which meet strict professional and ethical criteria. The designation CIPPM® and the use of the CIPPM logo and Guidelines text (required) in sales/development/promotional and proposal material offers assurance of quality, expertise, and effectiveness. Individuals, Organizations, and Corporate entities are certified by CIPPM upon acceptance of membership by CIPPM.
CIPPM is an internationally recognized and accepted certification standard. CIPPM certification is knowledge and practice based, rather than the inferior standard of basing on credentials which remains ISO non-compliant. ISO has approved CIPPM certification for ISO 9000-4 (Quality Systems -- Guide to Dependability Program Management), ISO 9004-2 (Quality Systems Elements -- Guidelines for Services, and ISO 10006 Draft (Guideline to Quality in Project Management), which makes it the only ISO 9000 (Quality Management and Quality Assurance Standards -- Guidelines for Selection and Use) approved standard and certification for PM's and PM activity.
ISO's objective is to promote the development of standards, testing, and certification in order to encourage the trade of goods and services. Consisting of representatives of niney-one countries, each country is represented by a standards body. For example, the U.S. representative to ISO is the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), which is a quasi-governmental body that facilitates the development of concensus standards in the U.S.. While not developing or writing standards, ANSI and ISO provide structure and a mechanism for industry or product groups to come together to establish consensus and develop a standard.
ISO comprises more than 180 technical committees, covering many industry sectors and products. The American Society for Quality Control (ASQC) administers the U.S. Technical Advisory Group (TAG), which presents its views to the international ISO technical committees. The U.S. TAG to ISO Technical Committee 176 consists of quality experts that work with the international committee to draft, revise, and word ISO 9000+ (10000) quality assurance and quality management documents.
ASQC is the worldwide leader in the development, promotion, and application of quality and quality-related technologies for the quality profession, private sector, government, and academia. Its goal: To create a greater awareness of the need for quality, to promote research and the development of standards, and to provide educational opportunites to ensure product and service excellence through improved quality.
Founded in 1946 as a direct result of World War II efforts, ASQC's original purpose was to improve the quality of defense materials. Today, ASQC serves its 70,000 individual members and 650 corporate members through publications, courses, national and international conferences and seminars, professional certification programs, and local meetings and events conducted by its 210 sections, 15 divisions, and 9 technical committees.
IPMA is a non-profit network type of organization for qualified projet management. IPMA is European based and serves primarily European members and affiliations.
IPMA started in 1965 as a discussion group of managers of international projects. The first international Congress was held in 1967 in Vienna with participants from 30 different countries. Since that time IPMA has developed steadily and is now the prime international promoter of project management in Europe, Asia, and Arab countries. A most significant characteristic of IPMA is the parallel development of 18 associated national societies which serve the specific development needs of each country in its own language. IPMA has thus emerged as the representative body of an international network of national project management societies.
The Project Management Institute is a non-profit standards organization located in, and serving primarily, the United States. PMI publishes the PM standards known as the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK).
Certification through IPMA is currently under change; and debate is now occurring whether IPMA certification for project managers will be internationally administered through national adaptations, or whether national organizations will set their own standards with IPMA adaptation. Whatever the outcome, IPMA affiliation will require compliance with the emerging ISO 10006 standard, Guideline to Quality in Project Management.
PMP certification is a credentials based certification with heavy reliance on rote knowledge standards in the PMBOK. The PMP certification exam and process, much like the CPA examination and process, consists of submitting an application to PMI which includes information about education, experience, etc... Upon payment of the examination and processing fee, the Certification Committee scores the application on a published point system, and notifies the applicant of approval to take the exam. The exam is approximately six hours in length with one hour allotted to each section derived from the PMBOK (currently under revision). Sections not passed can be retaken, with limitations on retakes within certain periods of time. Upon passing all sections, PMI awards certification. Local chapters provide extensive study and preparatory help, and PMI has local chapters in almost every US state locale. Whether Certified or not, PMI members are bound by oath to uphold and bring forth into the profession the Code of Ethics for The Project Management Profession.
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