Project Management Certifications
Course Description
Project management courses are important for professionals aiming to excel in today’s complex business environment. These courses provide essential skills and knowledge to effectively plan, execute, and deliver successful projects across various industries and scales.
Certified PLPs have proven, through a rigorous combination of formal training and competency assessments, that they possess an in-depth understanding of national and international project leadership and management principles and practices. This includes expertise in identifying, selecting, initiating, planning, executing, and closing projects and mastering all aspects of monitoring and controlling to achieve successful project outcomes.
The Project Leader Professional (PLP®) course, our flagship offering in the project management category, goes beyond traditional project management principles. This specialized program focuses on developing strong leadership capabilities for navigating complex, high-stakes projects in dynamic business settings. Built on AIPMO’s strategic project lifecycle framework and incorporating insights from leading international project management professors, the PLP® course stands out for its comprehensive approach to project leadership. The PLP® curriculum covers many competencies based on AIPMO’s competence framework, including strategy, leadership, technical, behavioral, and contextual skills. It integrates the latest Agile methods and aligns with PMI’s performance domains across projects, programs, and portfolios. Through its pragmatic and interactive approach, featuring multi-day case studies, gamification, role-play, and storytelling techniques, the course provides participants with hands-on experience in applying theoretical concepts to real-world scenarios. Ideal for experienced project managers looking to enhance their leadership skills and gain a competitive edge, the PLP® program prepares professionals to lead complex projects and programs in today’s global business landscape. It offers a unique opportunity to understand the crucial differences between traditional project management practices and the advanced IPMO-PLP project leadership approach. It equips participants with the tools and knowledge to drive project success at the highest level.
The Project Leader Professional (PLP) course is a dynamic and engaging training program designed to empower leaders to drive complex projects to successful outcomes. This course takes a pragmatic approach by incorporating principles, frameworks, methods, and competencies, supplemented by the latest academic research in project leadership. The course content focuses on strategy, leadership, technical, behavioral, and contextual competencies.
Throughout the program, participants’ environments are referenced to foster discussions that help address and contextualize their daily challenges.
The course combines instructor-led sessions with participative activities. Participants engage in exercises as part of a detailed multi-day case study using gamification, role-play, and storytelling. They work on team-based case studies involving role-play and personal coaching, allowing them to apply theoretical concepts and reinforce their learning.
Our intensive program is ideal for candidates looking to build on their project management knowledge with a strong leadership focus. It helps participants understand the differences between their current project management practices and the PLP project leadership approach. Discussions are encouraged throughout the seminar, providing participants with opportunities to explore and gain knowledge on managing national and international projects and how these projects fit into program and portfolio management. This aids in preparing them for the PLP exam.
This program is built on AIPMO’s strategic project lifecycle framework, research findings from top international project management professors, competencies based on AIPMO’s competence framework, the latest Agile methods, and aspects of PMI’s performance domains across projects, programs, and portfolios for consistent terminology and understanding. The underlying competencies ensure participants are proficient in both traditional and Agile project management practices. This gives PLP course attendees a unique foundation for driving and leading successful national and international projects.
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Group discussions
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Case study
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Personal coaching
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Exam
Your instructor: Robert Joslin
CEng, ACE, IPMO-E, PfMP, PgMP, PMPDr. Robert is a management consultant/instructor and the founder of AIPMO. Robert is a professor at Alma Mater Europaea - ECM and the creator of the MSc and PhD programs in Strategy, Project Leadership and PMO management.
Robert has more than 35 years of experience in designing, initiating, and international program management delivery of large-scale organizational transformation, reengineering, infrastructure, and strategy development. Robert has designed and implemented hundreds of PMOs and during this time evolved the PMO-specific methodology that formed the basis of AIPMO’s PMO strategic lifecycle framework.
Robert has published books, book chapters, and research papers. He is a peer reviewer for three project management journals and is in the process of co-authoring AIPMO’s Body of Knowledge (BoK), which comprises several books.
Education
- Doctor of Philosophy, Strategy, Program and Project Management,
Skema Business School - Bachelor of Engineering
Durham University
Contributions to leading practice
- Project Management Methodologies
- Governance and Success
- PMO Principles and PMO Service Principles, 2ed
- PMO Services and Capabilities,
PMO, Portfolio, Program, and Project Competences
(forthcoming), Association of International Project Management books
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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.
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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.
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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 RavenWho should attend
- Any senior project stakeholder moving into an international environment wishing to understand the challenges around achieving successful international projects and programs.
- Project leaders, PMO managers, and project managers wishing to formalize and extend their existing knowledge from a project competency perspective while building on best international practices based on principles, practices, knowledge areas, and processes.
- Senior managers/directors who would like to develop their strategic skills for the selection and successful management of projects.
- Team leaders and consultants working in an international project environment who would like to broaden their understanding of the different perspectives of project management, including theories/eponymous laws such as agency theory, stewardship theory, Parkinson’s law, and student syndrome, and how these impact project success.
- Team members looking to develop their awareness of international project management and how they can best support their project managers.
- Sponsors of projects who would like to learn more about how international projects are managed, as well as many tips on their role and how to be an excellent and supportive sponsor.
Key takeaways
Understand the structure and approach of successful national and international project leadership.
Understand and gain confidence in setting up a PMI-compliant complex national and international project through real-life case studies and examples.
Gain a broader perspective by understanding how projects fit into portfolios and programs perspectives – the famous eagle view.
Gain tips and tricks from an internationally experienced project, program, and portfolio manager/trainer/consultant.
Knowledge of how to plan your career in the senior international project leadership arena.
Understand theories, eponymous laws, and the most used tools & techniques that impact and, therefore, help or hinder in achieving project success.
Understand what is being researched in project leadership and the findings that can help you in your position.
Prerequisites
• 3 years plus experience in project and program management
• Ideally, a formal PM certification such as PMI’s CAPM, PMP, Axelos’s Prince 2 Practitioner, or IPMA (Levels C or D)
• Working with Excel and a basic understanding of finance, KPIs (Key Performance Indicators), KRIs (Key Risk Indicators)
• Educated at degree level or similar
• Attendees should have a good working knowledge of project management processes, tools, and techniques
Exam
The online exam is run by AIPMO, and moderated by a proctor from AIPMO at the end of the course.
Attendees are notified of their exam results by email.
IMPORTANT NOTICE
The AIPMO books are part of the course reference material (included only in the in-class package.) If you’re attending virtually, please order them on Amazon.
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