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Do We Need Another Certification?

Mark Mullaly, PMP

July 23, 2007







This year has seen the launch of a new certification by PMI--the Program Management Professional (PgMP). Not yet publicly available, the PgMP certification has been limited to being conducted on a pilot basis over the last few months. A limited number of training providers were invited to create preparation courses for the certification, and a select group of people have been working through the process. So what is this certification? Where does it fit? And is it something that we need to be thinking about including in our development plans?
 
The PgMP is based upon the Program Management Standard, which was published by PMI in 2006. The standard explicitly defines programs as “a group of related projects managed in a coordinated way to obtain benefits and control not available by managing them individually.” In other words, we’re talking about multiple related projects that are aligned, support a common objective or business outcome but are too large or complex to manage as a single project.



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