Sustainable guide for Project Management

The IPMA ICB4® is the international standard on competence for project, programme and portfolio managers.

The competence needed for each of these domains is defined in the following competence areas: “People” (how do you interact with the people around you, and yourself); the “Practice” of our work (needed for Projects, Programmes and Portfolios); the “Perspective” of the intiatives you’re running (the context within which the initiative is run and the link to what needs to be achieved).

Table of Contents

Foreword

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

2. Purposes and intended users  15

2.1. Definition of competence  15

2.2. Audiences and uses  17

2.3. Individual competence development  18

3. The IPMA Individual Competence Baseline  25

3.1. Framework of the IPMA ICB  26

3.2. Structure of the IPMA ICB  28

3.3. Overview of the competence elements  31

4. The inventory of competences 35

4. 1. Managing programmes  36

4.2. Competencies overview 37

4. 3. Perspective  39

4. 4. People  69

4. 5. Practice  117

Annex A: Competence table  189

Annex B: Key Competence Indicator table 191