Michelle Ferguson & International Assessor John Atkinson.

Key members of Ireland's IPMA Certification Assessment Team met in Dublin to participate in a two day workshop on the development of the new IPMA Competence Baseline 4.0, which will have future implications for certified project managers in Ireland. John Atkinson, a member of the International Certification Validation Management Panel which has overall responsibility for the development of the content of this upgraded standard said that 'it will result in a major re-write of the existing PMCBI (Project Management Competence Baseline Ireland)'.

The existing PMCBI was regarded in the IPMA family of 50 countries as being of the highest standard and was used as a model by many other countries. Certification Board Chairman, Tom Ryan said 'that it is imperative that the next revision must at a minimum meet, and even exceed the quality available from the proceeding document in order to maintain our high reputation in the international community and to ensure that we are at the forefront of the certification agenda'.