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Foundational Certification

Course Description

The Service and Capabilities foundational course utilizes AIPMO’s Service Lifecycle framework and uses many techniques throughout the course.

This certification course focuses on a pragmatic and practical approach to deliver a series of service principles, concepts, and AIPMO’s Service Lifecycle framework, which is used to develop your organization’s or client’s service topology, and service capabilities. This will give unique and new insights into a service-oriented view of one or more enterprise-wide PMOs.

The course seeks to equip the participants with a clear method to understand the necessary depth of the topic so that they can maximize their value to their organization and create an enterprise-wide PMO Service strategy with its underlying services. The course will also cover the piloting, implementing, running, and, when necessary, transforming/retiring of one or more services within AIPMO’s PMO Services Lifecycle framework.

AIPMO’s integrated frameworks will be covered to ensure a contextual positioning of the PMO Services, especially at the enterprise level.

This course will provide insights that have never been shared before as they will be part of the AIPMO book on “PMO Services and Capabilities.” The attendees will be able to build their own PMO services strategy and services, which is one of the first steps to ensure that their PMO is both agile and has agility in terms of services offered to their clients.

AIPMO's "PMO Services and Capabilities" Book

This book is for every PMO professional who would like to understand how to define and deliver a PMO service strategy. Big part from the course material is from this book and the questions in the exam as well. It is highly recommended for all of the participants to have the book before the course start.

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Teaching Approach

The training approach includes

1

Lecture

2

Team exercises

3

Group discussions

4

Case study

5

Personal coaching

6

Exam

Your instructor: Laurent Kummer

DBA(c), PM² and PMO Consultant, Coach, Author of “The Lean Project Manager”

Laurent Kummer is a seasoned professional with over 20 years of experience in leading projects and project teams. Consultant and entrepreneur, he is also involved in academic research on Project management methodologies. He is one of the key contributors to PM², the official project management methodology of the European Institutions, which has been released to the public in 2016. As a teacher, he has been sharing his passion for project management through countless classes, lectures, and seminars over the last ten years and keeps current by leading several projects at the highest level of the European Commission.

He has developed a deep expertise in EU-funded development and research projects. Laurent used to represent the Belgian project management community at the International Standard Organization and has participated at the making of the ISO 21500 standard family on project management. Before this, he spent over a decade leading quality and IT infrastructure programs for General Electric in France, Eastern Europe, and Middle East. During his time in various sectors (banking, aviation, energy, oil & gas), Laurent earned a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt certification and since then has been a pioneer and active promoter of Lean project management, and, in 2017, he authored his best seller “The Lean Project Manager". Laurent holds an engineering degree in Computer Science from the French National School of Electronics and several project management (PMP, PM²) and Agile certifications (Scrum, PM² Agile).

Laurent Kummer

Education

  • EINSEIRB 1999
    Engineering degree, Computer Sciences, Bordeaux (FR)
  • ALMA MATER EUROPAEA
    2020-2023
    Doctoral Program on Project Management, Maribor (SI)


Contributions to leading practice

  • PM² Guide version 2.5 – European Commission 2016 – co-author
  • The Lean Project Manager – 2017 – author
  • “The Lean Project Manager: Applying principles from Lean manufacturing to the project management practice” – 2017 – Proceedings of Society of Project Management International Conference, Munich.
  • PM² Guide version 3 – European Commission 2018 – editor
  • PM² for EU funded Development Projects – European Commission 2019 – co-author
  • PM² Guide – French version – European Commission 2021
  • Sustainability and project resilience (Thesis WIP – 2022)


Modules

  • Introductions
  • AIPMO
  • Course outline, Guidelines and training approach
  • Questions posed by PMO Stakeholders
  • Project Failure and consequences
  • Typical reasons why projects fail
  • Project Management – foundational facts
  • PMO Success
  • PMO Maturity
  • PMO Structural Flaws
  • PMO Metaphors
  • Mapping PMO Services/Capability experts to PMO metaphors
  • Introduction to the Strategic PMO Lifecycle Framework
  • PMO Lifecycle Framework
  • Organizational Strategy and Environmental Factors
  • Governance
  • Management (PMO)
  • Continuous Improvement
  • Adaptive Alignment
  • Capabilities Underpinning the PMO Lifecycle Framework
  • PMO Services Lifecycle Framework
  • Definitions
  • Phases of PMO Services Cycle
  • Service Domains
  • Service Groups
  • Services
  • PMO Service Strategy Questions and Challenges
  • Key Documentation
  • PMO Service Strategy and triggers
  • Key Activities
  • PMO Service Economics and Service Domains/Service Groups
  • PMO Service types - main and related services
  • PMO Service Documentation plan, Services Catalogue and Service Roles
  • Governance
  • Organizational considerations
  • Technology and Data Considerations
  • Service Level Agreements
  • Service Design Context
  • Service Design Objectives
  • Design Challenges
  • Design and Architectural Questions
  • PMO Services Design Architecture framework
  • Resources and Roles
  • Service Communications and Record Keeping
  • PMO Service Requirements Gathering
  • Develop Processes and Procedures
  • Select and Deploy Tools and Techniques
  • PMO Service Pilot and Implementation Framework
  • Assessing readiness for Roll-out
  • PMO Topology and Service topologies
  • Service Orientation
  • Service Operations Activities
  • PMO Services
  • Differences between Service Operations, Service Management and Governance
  • Common Service Delivery Mistakes
  • PMO Hazards
  • Service Performance Measurement
  • Continuous Service Improvement
  • Service Improvement Model
  • Service Transition and Retirement
  • Retirement Steps

Frequently Asked Questions

You Ask, We Answer

This certification course focuses on a pragmatic and practical approach to deliver a series of service principles, concepts, and AIPMO’s Service Lifecycle framework, which is used to develop your organization’s or client’s service topology, and service capabilities. 

Each of the certification categories serve a difference purpose. The first category “PMO Core Certifications” shows that you have the competencies to design and build a service-orientated PMO with services that are needed by your project community. At the top-level (Expert) certification, you will have to show that you have the competencies to design and build one or more PMOs (called PMO topologies) within an integrated PMO Services topology. The second category of courses, called “Foundational certifications,” comprise of three certifications that are needed by everyone irrespective of whether you are a PMO or project team member or a PM/O director. The foundational courses are the techniques and tools of a trade, so they are needed by everyone including project professionals. The third category of certifications is called the “Specialist” certifications because they directly relate to the ability to offer PMO services. If a PMO service is planned, then the PMO needs to have the capability to offer them. There are over 20 specialist courses at the time of writing. These courses are also needed by project team members.

Short answer, yes. There are bundles shown on the website, but you can also call to ask if you can get a special discount. If you join as a group to the course, then this will also be taken into consideration.

Who should attend

  • PMO managers, PMO team members, and project managers wishing to understand how to create PMO services following AIPMO’s PMO Service Lifecycle framework
  • PMO directors needing to understand how to create the PMO enterprise-wide service offer, which is a part of the AIPMO’s Strategic framework (also contains the Enterprise PMO Topology)
  • Any senior project stakeholder wishing or needing to be part of a project team and understand/take the lead on supporting the development of PMO services
  • Consultants and other professionals who need to deepen their knowledge
  • PMO sponsors, who would like to learn more about how to increase the value of their PMOs and directly benefit their role and their peers’ in the organization

Key takeaways

Understand how PMOs fit into the world of projects, programs, and portfolios

Understand the benefits of viewing PMOs in terms of services Know what are PMO capabilities, and how they are constructed in terms of competencies, tools, and techniques

Understand the AIPMO framework and the phases and processes carried out by a PMO team member

Learn about the key PMO tools and techniques, including templates you can take back to your organization before they are published in AIPMO’s upcoming book on tools and techniques

Understand what are the key documents uses to establish, run, monitor, and control PMO and PMO Services

Be confident knowing what to do in common organizational PMO configurations

Prerequisites

  • 1 year plus experience in project and/or program management
  • Ideally a formal PM/PMO certification such as IPMO-F, IPMO-P, PMI’s CAPM®, PMP®, APM PMQ, or Prince 2 Practitioner
  • Attendees should have a good working knowledge of project management processes, tools, and techniques
  • Educated to degree level or similar

Exam

The online exam is run by AIPMO, and moderated by a proctor from AIPMO at the end of the course.

  • Open book exam, 50 multiple choice questions 
  • Duration: 1 hour

Attendees are notified by email of the results of the exam

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Imagination… What we can easily see is only a small percentage of what is possible. Logistics through innovation, dedication, and technology.

Marion Raven

Imagination… What we can easily see is only a small percentage of what is possible. Logistics through innovation, dedication, and technology.

Marion Raven

Imagination… What we can easily see is only a small percentage of what is possible. Logistics through innovation, dedication, and technology.

Marion Raven

Imagination… What we can easily see is only a small percentage of what is possible. Logistics through innovation, dedication, and technology.

Marion Raven

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