PMCert Certification Program Status
4rd Quarter, 2005 update by Stacy Goff
USA-NCB is Here!
A team of dedicated Project Managers has been working for over a year on the USA's National Competence Baseline, the foundation for our 4-Level-Certification program. Based on the International Competence Baseline of International Project Management Association, this is a foundation of a proven international certification program that certifies the competence and knowledge of multiple different levels of Project Managers and Project Practitioners.
Get NCB
The USA-NCB (USA's National Competence Baseline) for development and assessment of competent project managers has been updated to better align with IPMA's ICB release 3.0.
Click here to link to our email request page for a link to download the official release of USA-NCB, version 1.5, in Adobe Acrobat format (pdf, 400K).
Disclaimer: the NCB refers to documents that will soon be available, based on our plans at the time of publishing. Our PMCert website has a list of those that are actually available at any time.
More About the NCB (from its Introduction)
The USA’s National Competence Baseline is a framework for assessment and certification of the knowledge, experience, behavioral attributes, and competence of Project participants. It provides a career ladder suitable for use by a range of project participants, from team member and leader, to Project Manager of increasingly complex Projects, to Program Manager. In addition to its use in building a career ladder, it helps focus an organization’s learning and coaching, and assists practitioners at all levels in self-assessment. Finally, it is the basis for our certification at increasingly higher levels of demonstrated competence, and of project responsibility.
The USA-NCB is a taxonomy (or classification structure) of key Project Management and related Elements, not a body of knowledge. In the domain of effective Project Managers, the true body of knowledge spans thousands of books and publications, and lives on in the experience of hundreds of thousands of project participants. As a taxonomy, it represents a starting-point, not the ending-point, for your personal discovery and assessment of your knowledge, behavioral attributes, experiences and competences as a Project Manager or project stakeholder.
PMCert uses this document as the foundation for our 4-Level Competence-based Certification program. PMCert has other, more specific documents, some for public use and others for internal use, to supplement this competence baseline. The documents for public use will assist individuals and organizations in understanding the overall certification program. Internal documents support the governance, procedures, practices, and functions of the program.
While the USA-NCB provides brief coverage of each key Element of Project Management, this document does not provide comprehensive treatment. Rather, it provides an overview of each Element that should be sufficient (together with a separately-available self-assessment document) for an experienced project participant to perform a self-assessment. As a competence baseline, this document is the framework for assessment of the results that a Project Manager has produced.
How We Will Use NCB
Over the next several months we will be accepting applications for the first certifications to be available, IPMA Level D®, Certified Project Practitioner. We are already accepting applications for intact groups of 20 or so, to ease scheduling and arrangements needed for the implementation of the rigorous exam. To find out more, please Contact Bill Duncan, PMCert Chair.
We have also formalized the application and processes for IPMA-B, Certified Senior Project Manager. To see more about the USA's first competence-based Project Manager's certification program, go to our PMCert site.
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