P3O® Certification - Portfolio, Programme and Project Offices

The P3O guidance - which is aligned to PRINCE2®, MSP®, and M_o_R® - brings together in one place a set of principles, processes and techniques to facilitate effective portfolio, programme and project management through enablement, challenge and support structures.

• Ensure consistent delivery of projects and programmes and meet business objectives through effect use of resources.
• Develop capability, capacity and risk models to suit the organizational maturity culture.
• Help identify potential opportunities to be realized, exploited or enhanced as part of risk analysis.
• Ensure that the strategies and performance requirements of your organization are realized via projects, programmes and operational business units.
• Improve organizational accountability, decision making, transparency and visibility.

• Establish, develop and maintain appropriate support structures to facilitate decision making, benefits realization and successful delivery of projects and programmes.
• Assure that a joined-up set of outcomes and benefits is measured, managed, monitored and refined to ensure that optimal investment and strategic goals are achieved.
• Deliver strategy, reduce benefits loss and deliver programmes and projects more effectively.
• Provide assurance, coaching and mentoring to build a workforce capable of first-class programme and project delivery.
• Protect revenue and spend while enhancing value for money.

The purpose of the foundation level is to confirm that you have sufficient knowledge and understanding of the P3O guidance to interact effectively with, or act as an informed member of, an office within a P3O model. The foundation qualification is a pre-requisite for the practitioner qualification.

Exam Format

• Multiple choice
• 75 questions per paper
• 5 questions to be trial and not counted in scores
• 35 marks required to pass (out of 70 available) - 50%
• 60 minutes duration
• Closed book.

The purpose of the practitioner level is to confirm that you have sufficient knowledge and understanding of the P3O guidance to design, implement, manage or work in any component office within a P3O model.

Exam Format

• Objective testing
• 4 questions of 20 marks each - 80 marks in total
• 150 minutes
• 50% pass mark - 40 out of 80
• Open book - (only the P3O Guide is allowed)