IPMA B 

You can register for the IPMA-B through your account. Don’t have an account yet? You’ll need to create one first. More information about the registration can be found here. 

You start by submitting the Experience document, Executive summary report, and Self-assessment. Two reviews will take place. 

• The IPMA backoffice will check your submitted documents on the eligibility criteria.
• Once the three documents have been submitted and approved, a final decision will be made by two assessors. A final decision will be made by two assessors.

Experience document
In the Experience document, you give a description of your education, training, and courses as well as work experience. Furthermore, you need to give the names of four referents that have been involved in your projects. In conclusion, you describe the projects/programs/portfolios in which you demonstrate that you meet the experience criteria for IPMA level B and indicate the level of complexity for each of these projects.

Self-assessment

In the Self-assessment, you score yourself on knowledge, skills, and experience for each competence. With every competence, you need to give a real-life example of your experience.

Summary report

In the Executive summary report, you give background information about the organization for which you execute projects and you give a description of the projects/programs/portfolios as mentioned in the experience document.

After the previous step has been successfully completed, we will arrange a date for the theory exam together with you and the assessors. The theory exam is conducted orally and lasts a maximum of 90 minutes. The oral theory exam will take place online via Zoom or Teams.

IPMA Certification does not provide training courses. To ensure full reliability and independence, we keep certification separate from training. The professional association IPMA Netherlands offers an overview of training providers that hold the IPMA quality mark.

Materiaal IPMA-B

  Eindtermen

  Rekenregels

Step 4 - inleveren overige documenten 

Referent inquiry
After passing your theoretical exam, you can use the portal to invite your referents to give feedback. In the referent inquiry, you will be assessed on your performance by four persons by means of six open questions and one closed question. The referents are the project executive, the manager, and two project team members. All the referents will be presented with the same questions in order to be able to make a proper comparison. The results of this inquiry will be used during the assessment.

The referent inquiry provides additional information to the assessors about how the performance of the applicant as a project manager is regarded by his/her inner circle. The assessments of the project executive and the manager will be disclosed to the applicant before the assessment. Because of the dependant relationship between the project team members and the applicant, their remarks are confidential and will only be put at the disposal of the assessors.

Report
In the report, you give a description of a project in which you demonstrate that you have all IPMA level B-competencies. In the report, you broach the subject of the background of the project (cause, aimed result, stakeholders, duties), as well as the challenges of the project and a retrospect on your performance. The report needs to be drafted according to a special template. In the explanation entry instruction, you will read exactly what information to submit. Both documents are available upon request via the form below. 

• Het tweede deel bevat open vragen met een tijdsindicatie van 120 minuten. De open vragen bestaan uit rekenvragen, korte open vragen en korte scenario’s. 
• Je kan in totaal 90 punten halen voor het examen. De cesuur is 45 punten.

The assessment is an interview of two hours with two assessors. Your competencies will be tested by means of the documents submitted. Please bring the following items to the assessment:

• A document describing the project/program portfolio, project plan, project management plan, plan of approach, project initiation document (PID), or quotation.
• A document demonstrating your approach of the risks and uncertainties; a risk register, a risk and opportunities list,  a risk log, an issue log, a risk database, etcetera.
• A document demonstrating how you handle changes; a change list, VtW-database, a changelog, change proposal file, etcetera.
• Documentation demonstrating the process of decision making in and about your project/program portfolio, reports of the steering committee meeting, project management meeting, meetings with the project executive, managerial meetings etcetera.
• Documentation in which it states how you concluded the project/program portfolio, completion report, project assessment, discharge statement, lessons learned report, closeout report, etcetera.
• The assessors may request additional documentation, depending on the content of your Executive summary. All information is kept confidential by IPMA Certification and assessors. All assessors have signed a confidentiality agreement. If, despite these security measures, you still have reservations, please contact us.

The assessors may request additional documentation, depending on the content of the documents you have submitted. All information is treated confidentially by IPMA Certification and the assessors. All assessors have signed a confidentiality agreement. If confidentiality is still an issue, please contact us.

De uitslag
Na het afronden van het interview bepalen de assessoren of zij je voordragen voor certificering.

Geslaagd
Bij een positief resultaat overhandigen onze assessoren direct het certificaat. Als je het leuk vindt maken wij ook een foto van dit bijzondere moment. Je ontvangt het certificaat ook per e-mail.

Met een IPMA B-certificaat mag je jezelf officieel Certified Senior Project Manager noemen. Het IPMA B-certificaat is vijf jaar geldig en kan daarna, na aantonen van voldoende ervaring, steeds met vijf jaar worden verlengd. Geslaagde kandidaten worden opgenomen in het internationale IPMA Register. Het register wordt maandelijks ge-update.

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