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The P3O certification scheme from PeopleCert and AXELOS offers two levels of certification, Foundation and Practitioner.
Our P30 training is designed by subject experts and professional P30 trainers. It gives you the best chance of passing your P30 certification exams and successfully earning your PMO qualifications.
P3O certification is the leading project management office (PMO) certification scheme and is a sign to employers that a candidate has a good knowledge of PMO principles and methods.
The P3O book [1] provides an approach for designing, implementing and operating portfolio, programme and project offices. P3O is based upon best practices, and its authors consulted widely with experts in portfolio, programme and project offices when writing the guidance.
P3O is part of the same suite of global best practice publications by AXELOS. Managing Successful Programmes (MSP) and PRINCE2 are two of the best known.
The adoption of MSP and PRINCE2 globally by organisations has led to the development of centres of excellence and both programme and project offices.
The development of portfolio offices has happened more recently and P3O was developed to provide joined-up thinking for organisations to use when designing their portfolio, programme and project office(s) solutions.
[1] AXELOS (2013). P3O® Portfolio, Programme and Project Offices. 2nd ed. Norwich: TSO. 224.
P30 training helps senior managers understand the structure for achieving strategic objectives.
Programme managers will benefit from the consistency P3O brings by standardizing strategies within projects, programmes and portfolios.
Project managers can integrate project management frameworks such as PRINCE2 into a P3O model and deliver consistent outputs across projects.
P3O offers new career paths for working professionals with industry experience as programme management office (PMO) is a natural career progression path for established roles.
P3O stands for Portfolio, Programme and Projects Offices. P3O was created by the Office of Government Commerce, a department in the UK Government, to help organisations build support structures that enable the successful delivery of their portfolios of change programmes and projects.
P3O is now owned and managed by PeopleCert and AXELOS.
A project management office (PMO) is a dedicated business function within an organization that defines and maintains project management standards, tools and methods within the organization. A PMO aims to standardize and achieve a repetition in the execution of projects, and to ensure the total investments for the organization are spent wisely.
Yes. All our P3O training is accredited by PeopleCert on behalf of AXELOS. As an accredited training organisation Knowledge Train provides students with P3O exams as part of their P3O courses.
Your P3O course includes the following:
Yes. These courses include homework each night of the courses.
You will need to renew your P3O Foundation and Practitioner certifications after 3 years. All Foundation and Practitioner certifications issued on or before 30 June 2020 will have a renew by date of 1 July 2023.
Foundation certifications that have passed their renew by date will still be accepted as pre-requisites for further certification.
To keep your P3O certification up to date, you can choose any one of 3 ways provided by PeopleCert and AXELOS.
P30 Foundation exam results are given during class. P30 Practitioner exam results are received the same day. Certificate(s) can be downloaded 3 working days after the exam.
There are no prerequires for our P3O training. To sit your P3O practitioner exam however, you must first successfully pass the P3O Foundation certification exam.
Yes. All P3O training courses are available as in-house on-site training. Please call us and speak with our representatives to discuss the pricing.
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A P3O Foundation course is a great starting point for learning about PMOs and the P3O framework.
This course is suitable if you work in, or want to work in, portfolio, programme, or project management offices. It is also suitable if you are a project, programme, or portfolio manager wanting to bring consistency to projects, programmes, or portfolios.
This course provides you with P3O Foundation certification and includes the P3O Foundation exam.
A P3O Practitioner course is for students wanting to learn to deploy a P3O or PMO framework.
A P3O Practitioner course is for people already certified at P3O Foundation level. A P3O Foundation and P3O Practitioner course can also be combined into a single course. Click for more details.
