APM Group Ltd
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The APM Group Ltd is a global accreditation body which develops and delivers qualification schemes for knowledge-based workers. The company is based in the United Kingdom. APM Group operates worldwide, with offices in the UK, USA, Germany, Malaysia, India, Australia, China and the Netherlands.
The company is the official accreditor of the UK Government's Office of Government Commerce
(OGC - part of the UK Cabinet Office's Efficiency & Reform Group) for qualifications based on their Best Practice guidance portfolio. APM Group is in turn accredited by the United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS) against the EN45011 and ISO/IEC17024 standards for several accreditation schemes it delivers.
®, MSP®, M_o_R®, P3O®, PMD Pro, the PPM Certificate and Diploma, and Agile project management. It also creates, distributes and marks the exam papers. PRINCE2 has recently been the focus of an international study by Queensland University of Technology into creating value in project management jointly sponsored by APMG, OGC and The Stationery Office
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, APMP and Earned Value Management.
Maturity Model.
The company is the official accreditor of the UK Government's Office of Government Commerce
Office of Government Commerce
The Office of Government Commerce is part of the Efficiency and Reform Group of the Cabinet Office, a department of the Government of the United Kingdom...
(OGC - part of the UK Cabinet Office's Efficiency & Reform Group) for qualifications based on their Best Practice guidance portfolio. APM Group is in turn accredited by the United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS) against the EN45011 and ISO/IEC17024 standards for several accreditation schemes it delivers.
Project, Programme, Portfolio & Risk Management Qualifications
APM Group trades as APMG-International for its Examination Institute activities, which include the accreditation of training providers and the certification of examination candidates in PRINCE2PRINCE2
PRojects IN Controlled Environments 2 is a structured project management method endorsed by the UK government as the project management standard for public projects. The methodology encompasses the management, control and organisation of a project...
®, MSP®, M_o_R®, P3O®, PMD Pro, the PPM Certificate and Diploma, and Agile project management. It also creates, distributes and marks the exam papers. PRINCE2 has recently been the focus of an international study by Queensland University of Technology into creating value in project management jointly sponsored by APMG, OGC and The Stationery Office
The Stationery Office
The Stationery Office is a British publishing company that was created in 1996 when the publishing arm of Her Majesty's Stationery Office was privatised. TSO is the official publisher and the distributor for legislation, command and house papers, select committee reports, Hansard, and the London,...
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IT Service Management Qualifications
The company operates the accreditation and certification schemes for ITIL® (Information Technology Infrastructure LibraryInformation Technology Infrastructure Library
The Information Technology Infrastructure Library , is a set of good practices for IT service management that focuses on aligning IT services with the needs of business. In its current form , ITIL is published in a series of five core publications, each of which covers an ITSM lifecycle stage...
) and for Service Catalogue within the IT Service Management field.
Other Qualifications
Other qualification schemes delivered by the company include Finance for Non-Financial Managers, Change Management, OBASHIOBASHI
The OBASHI® methodology provides a framework and method for capturing, illustrating and modeling the relationships, dependencies and dataflows between business and Information technology assets and resources in a business context....
, APMP and Earned Value Management.
Consulting
APMG's accreditation activities also include the assessment and certification of consulting firms and the registration of consultants, enabling them to deliver organisational maturity assessment against the PRINCE2 Maturity Model and the P3M3P3M3
P3M3, also known as the Portfolio, Programme and Project Management Maturity Model is a reference guide for structured best practice. It breaks down the broad disciplines of portfolio, programme and project management into a hierarchy of Key Process Areas...
Maturity Model.