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Project Excellence Baseline for Achieving Excellence in Projects and Programmes Ipma

What defines whether a project or programme is "good" or "bad"?When we're striving for excellence in the execution of our projects and programmes, what do we mean? IPMA has given its extended definition in the PEB, the Project Excellence Baseline.This model is based on the well-known EFQM model, but is adapted to the field of project- and programme management and after over 10 years of use has been adapted to the model we're using now.Table of Content:ForewordExecutive summaryTable of Contents 11List of figures 14List of tables 15Abbreviations and acronyms 16Terms and definitions 171. Introduction 211. 1. IPMA PEB links to IPMA OCB and IPMA ICB 242. Purposes and intended users 272.1. Purpose of the IPMA Project Excellence Baseline 272.2. Typical user groups of the IPMA PEB 283. The project in its context 333.1. What is a project? 333.1.1. The project in an organization 333.1.2. The project as a temporary organization 343.1.3. Processes in a project 353.2. A project in its external context 363.3. A project in its organisational context 383.3.1. Organisational context 383.3.2. Project governance 383.3.3. The project in the context of a programme and portfolio 394. Introducing project excellence 434.1. The concept of excellence 434.2. The concept of project excellence 444.3. Continuous improvement as a foundation for excellence 454.4. The role of sustainability 474.5. The role of leadership 504.6. The link between competence and excellence 515. Introduction to the Project Excellence Model 555.1. Principles behind the model design 555.2. Structure of the model 565.3. Areas of the model and interpretation of the overall results 575.4. Interactions between the areas of the model 605.5. Business value delivery using IPMA PEM 615.6. The model criteria 626. Assessment of project excellence 716.1. Purposes and approaches to the project excellenceAssessment 716.2. Assessment of project...