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About House of PMO Essentials

Overview

House of PMO Certification

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Benefits of House of PMO Essentials

For Individuals

  • Gain a holistic understanding of key skillsets like risk tracking, reporting, and delivery support.
  • Learn adaptable knowledge that focuses on management support and related competencies.
  • Open doors to career advancement opportunities by gaining the techniques and expertise needed to make a real impact in an organization.
  • Learn a structured approach on how to design and transform a PMO to fully influence the success of projects and programmes.
  • Define key processes like benchmarking and forecasting and their practical applications in a PMO context.

For Organizations

  • Supports consistent understanding and execution of PMO roles and services.
  • Enhances project delivery with well-trained PMO professionals who can contribute directly to improve project, program, and portfolio performance.
  • Introduces an internal progression and retention capability by providing a structured, visible career path.
  • Ensures that activities within the business are aligned to strategic goals by using analytics, data, and supportive delivery of incentives.
  • Identifies risks early and captures lessons learned, promoting best practices that will help improve future project outcomes.

    Study materials

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    The PMO Competency Framework
    Book (English)
    By
    House of PMO, Mrs Eileen J Roden (Author), Ms Carol Hindley (Author), Ms Lindsay A Scott (Author)
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    PMO Service Catalogue
    eBook (English)
    By
    Stuart Dixon

    House of PMO Essentials levels

    House of PMO - Essentials for administrators badge

    Essentials for PMO Administrators

    Kick start your career as a PMO Administrator by learning the core principles of Project Management and how to apply them within a PMO.

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    Essentials for PMO Analysts

    A practical certification, designed to provide learners with the fundamental knowledge required to perform in a PMO Analyst role.

    Essentials for PMO Managers Badge

    Essentials for PMO Managers

    Provides a blueprint for becoming a good PMO Manager, covering the knowledge, skills, behaviours, and competences needed.

    Essentials for PMO Directors Badge

    Essentials for PMO Directors

    Learn the fundamental knowledge and skills you need to be an effective PMO Director.

    Videos

    Videos

    Essentials for PMO Administrators Training and Certification

    How to be a PMO Administrator

    How to be a PMO Analyst

    Episode 142 – Level Up your Career – How to become a PMO Specialist

    | 1 hour 6 minutes 10 seconds

    FAQs

    • The structure of the examinations depends on the level of certification.
    • Generally, entry-level examinations (Foundation Certifications) have a range of 40 minutes to 60 minutes to complete a multiple-choice exam, which may include 40 to 60 questions.
    • Practitioner examinations can range from 90 minutes to 120 minutes with an average of 80 complex multiple-choice questions.
    • The required score to pass an examination varies from one certification to another. You can find more information listed on the product page under exam details, to learn more about a particular examination.

    If you booked your exam directly with us, you will have 12 months to sit your exam which cannot be extended. If your exam was booked by a Training Organization, then you will need to reach out to them directly to request an extension to your expiry date.

    Full details of our Equality Policy can be found on our website.

    Any request for additional time will need to be provided in writing to customerservice@apmgroup.co.uk. We will need to see evidence of your diagnosed condition in the form of a medical report, signed by a medical practitioner.  

    If this is not available, or your condition was diagnosed a long time ago, then any statement from an employer, line manager or Occupation Health advisor will be sufficient.  

    If no recommendations regarding the length of time to be added to the exam is evident in the documents supplied, then we apply 25% additional time to the exam.

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    You can either contact your Training Organization to purchase a new exam, or you can purchase a new exam directly from our public exams website. For more information, see our more detailed article on resitting an exam.

    Using a company device in which you do not have administrative rights and access to download additional software tends to cause issues when sitting your exam via ProctorU, as outlined in the Candidate Guidance Agreement.  

    If you wish to sit your exam via ProctorU again, you will need to pay a reschedule fee of £32 (which you can do in the Candidate Portal) before you can select a new date and time.  

    Alternatively, you can reschedule your exam via our AIPP service, where you can take your exam over Zoom without downloading any additional software. Please note there are fewer exam slots available through AIPP.  

    Full details of our Proctoring options can be found on our Proctoring Page

    If you feel you had issues during your exam, you may submit an appeal to customerservice@apmgroup.co.uk. We will review your appeal and respond. See APMG’s policies for details on the full appeals process.

    To appeal your result, email a written request with supporting evidence to customerservice@apmgroup.co.uk. We will review your appeal and respond. See APMG’s policies for details on the full appeals process.

    Your results will be processed 6 to 12 hours after your exam. You will receive an email confirming your achievement and inviting you to the Candidate Portal where you can see your official result. From there, you can create your account in Credly.com and access your digital badge and certificate.

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