Project Management Associates (PMA)
PMA is a registered Society, established in 1993, with the vision to ‘Create a Project Oriented India (POI)’, which fervently supports the objectives and initiatives of the Govt. of India.
PMA, a not for profit National Association of Project Managers in India is actively engaged in promoting excellence in Project Management across various sectors. Under the recent 'Make in India' initiative, PMA strives to promote competence across different levels to facilitate successful completion of all projects. Building skill development along with Project Orientation and Project Mindset across Industry, Academia and Government are undertaken by PMA through its Global and National level events, training, certification, membership, workshops etc. Classroom trainings are conducted by independent Accredited Organizations/freelance individuals qualified for the task. Recently, national level Award Schemes have been constituted for promoting the spirit of excellence among Project Leaders and Organizations’ successfully implemented projects (www.pmaindia.org).
PMA is the Exclusive Indian Member of the International Project Management Association (IPMA), a Federation of 71 Member Associations. (www.ipma.world). Appropriate best practices in Project Management, learnt and shared by IPMA, from their wealth of experience and knowledge base, are passed over to various project practitioners and academia by PMA. This helps to undertake time and cost effective endeavors thereby contributing to strengthening the Indian Economy.
IPMA's 4 Level Certification system in Project Management is exclusively conducted in India by PMA through its Certification Body - PMA Cert. More than 6500 professionals across a range of leading organizations in India, have been awarded IPMA Certifications. Efforts are on to bring in a wider network of stakeholders under the benefit of competence based certification program. PMA has a wide network of Members. Ministry of Shipping and Road Transport & Highways, GoI and about 77 leading Corporates are PMA's Life Members. With its headquarter at New Delhi, PMA's wide network of 14 Chapters across India and regional office in Southern India, lend robust support to its mission.
OBJECTIVES OF THE COURSES BY PMA
Benefits of globally recognised IPMA Certification
Overall Benefits
It improves one's capability to deliver better, faster, less expensive products and services.
Performance based certification secures competitive differentiation.
Certification ensures that you have standards by which project management performance can be measured.
Employers Benefits
As the course enhances the knowledge base of the employee for handling the project in an effective manner it helps the company to bring the cost over runs and time over runs to a minimum.
It provides a marketing tool by demonstrating the company's commitment to excellence in project management and the competence of its staff.
Employee Benefits
It provides peer recognition of one's competence.
It enhances other technical or business qualifications.
It assists in the recognition of the transferability of an individual's skills from one company or industry to another.
It enhances their confidence in their project management and general business knowledge.
Customers Benefits
It enables clients to assess a proposed project manager's competence.
It provides positive proof that the individual concerned has gained peer recognition of his/her ability to manage projects.
It builds confidence about the company undertaking the projects.