Project Management Institute and DNV Certification have formed an alliance to market PMI’s Organizational Project Management Maturity Model (OPM3). OPM3 is a new standard developed to determine the maturity of a project management application enterprisewide. Unlike PMI’s established standard for single projects, OPM3 is designed to measure the degree of project management being applied to multiple projects on an organizationwide basis.

The ancillary products and services needed for its implementation will be offered by DNV on PMI’s behalf, with DNV serving as the exclusive producer of OPM3 assessor and improvement specialist training, testing, certification and registration services. However, neither PMI nor DNV will offer OPM3 assessment of improvement services; instead, those tools will be offered to consultancies, which will offer them to businesses and governmental agencies.

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