Although it is necessary a large range of knowledgment for the project manager role, we see that in reality this is a quite diferent. In the majority of time the enrollment to this career happens on a non-planned manner.

This occurs frequentelly in emergency cases where the project manager is identified by his technical skills, not by a former evaluation that outlines is preparation for management functions.

International associations iniciatives has been of extreme importance for defining attributes that regulated project manager activity.

In Europe, professional recognition has had a strong growth in recent years towards certification programs on diferent countries, accordingly with IPMA guidelines.

Certification programs offer to project managers an occasion for:

• Develop their knowledgement, experience and personal attitude
• Continue their technical education
• Improve projects quality
• Achieving efficiently project goals

Advantages for project managers:

Obtain a international diploma that certificates their skills and competency

Advantages for companies:

Reveal an adequate policy for human resources, reflected in teams quality

Advantages for customers:

Guarantee profissionalism on project management services following state-of-art rules

IPMA certification program can be view in three fundamentally vectors:

1. Although obey IPMA standards, attend to cultural, economic and technological country specifies;
2. Being divided on four levels, IPMA certification program look for cereer development of project managers and their diferent professional experiencies;
3. Follow a certification model that, besides evaluation exam for lower levels, permit a personalized applicant evalutation. Each person is viewed based on his work, accordingly to project nature, kind od industry activity or for whom the project is.