Individual Competence Baseline for Portfolio Management

The IPMA ICB4® is the international standard on competence for project, programme and portfolio managers.

The competence needed for each of these domains is defined in the following competence areas: “People” (how do you interact with the people around you, and yourself); the “Practice” of our work (needed for Projects, Programmes and Portfolios); the “Perspective” of the intiatives you’re running (the context within which the initiative is run and the link to what needs to be achieved).

Table of Contents

Foreword

Table of Contents

1. Introduction  11

2. Purposes and intended users  15

2.1. Definition of competence  15

2.2. Audiences and uses  17

2.3. Individual competence development  18

3. The IPMA Individual Competence Baseline  25

3.1. Framework of the IPMA ICB  26

3. 2. Structure of the IPMA ICB  28

3.3. Overview of the competence elements  31

4. The inventory of competences  35

4. 1. Managing portfolios  36

4.2. Competencies overview  37

4. 3. Perspective  39

4.4. People  67

4. 5. Practice  115

Annex A: Cross reference to IS021504: 2015  173

Annex B: Competence table  177

Annex C: Key Competence Indicator table  179