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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.

    House of PMO - Essentials for analysists badge

    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

    Your training organization specified that they wish to view candidate results before releasing. If you would like your results sooner, you may contact your ATO directly and request your results that way. After they have released them, you will be able to create/view your Digital Badge and download your Digital Certificate in your Credly account in the Certificates section of your portal.

    Since 2018, we are no longer registered for AXELOS qualifications and are unable to provide the certificates.  

    If you received your AXELOS qualification before this time, you can contact customer service and upon providing your candidate number, ask if a copy of your certificate still exists in our system. 

    Alternatively, you can reach out to IT PeopleCert directly with this request quoting your candidate number.  

    If you do not have your candidate number, we can provide it to you. Additionally, we are happy to provide a letter of verification for any exams sat with us.

    When you pass an exam – you will instantly have the option to claim a digital badge as representation of your new certificate. Your badge can be embedded on an email signature, website, digital CV, or shared via LinkedIn.  

    Access the downloadable guide for more information on how to claim your digital badge.

    You can always access all your records, electronic certificates and badges via the APMG Candidate Portal.  

    Once you have logged on to the Candidate Portal, click on the ‘Badges and Certificates’ option from the menu bar at the top of screen. From here you should click on the ‘Create Badge/Certificate’ button. This will take you to the Credly platform to create an account and download your badge and certificate. 

    Step-by-step guidance is available to download from the ‘Badges and Certificates’ area in your Candidate Portal. 

    Electronic certificates are environmentally friendly, but you can print the certificate yourself at home or work, if required. 

    If you have any problems you are welcome to contact our customer service team.  

    If you previously sat an exam with us and were issued a paper certificate but would like to upgrade to a digital badge and e-certificate, please contact us. There is a £25 administration fee for providing a digital badge and a form for which you will need to complete to consent to your personal information being used in order to manually create the badge in Credly.com.

    If your exam is booked through a Training Organization, and they are proctoring your exam over a platform of their choosing, you will need reach out to them directly to discuss options to reschedule.  

    If your exam is with ProctorU, you can reschedule without additional charges as many times as you wish up to 24 hours prior to your booked slot. If you reschedule within this 24-hour period, you will need to pay the £38 reschedule fee, as we will still be charged by ProctorU for your slot.

    You can merge your account by logging into your candidate portal with your initial email address and click on your name at the top. Then click merge and send a merge request to your secondary email address. Once you have agreed to the email request, everything will appear in one account. Please contact us if you have any problems with this process and we will be happy to help.

    You may contact our Accreditation Team directly, and they will be happy to answer your questions regarding the Accreditation process.

    To become an Accredited Training Organization (ATO), apply for accreditation or contact your local APMG office. If suitable, you'll receive an invoice and undergo APMG International's ATO assessment.

    Trainers must be sponsored by an Accredited Training Organization (ATO), which can be found using the APMG International search tool. The sponsoring ATO must submit a trainer application to APMG. 

    The requirements, including pass marks of the exams, will vary depending on the certification, please get in touch for more information.

    Get in touch

    If you have a query about this certification or want to know more about training send us a message via this contact form. We would love to hear from you!