Majid Farahani - Ph.D Candidate for Project Management & Constl۱lction, TMU, Iun
Mohammad Hossein Sobhiyah - Head of the Project & ConstrUction Dept. in TMU, Iran
Amirhossein Khameneh - Project Services & Coordination Manager, R&D Deputy, MAPNA Gronp

The IPMA Project Excellence Model (PEM) is adapted :fi·om the EFQM model and developed by lPMA to assess the project excellence. The lPMA PEM is developed using research findings from both studies on success criteria and critical success factors for projects. The PEM consists of five "Project Management" areas covering critical success factors regarding the projects process, procedures and management and also four result areas covering the project success criteria and various results. The IPMA Competence Baseline (ICB) is an IPMA standard which sets out the knowledge and experience expected :fi·om the managers of projects, programs and portfolio consist of forty six competencies categorized and arranged into three groups: Technical, Behavioral and Contextual. It is expected from lPMA as the world leader in Project Management to produce and offer the systematic and related products and standards but the problem is that there is no obvious relationship and integrity between these two lPMA products. The aim of this paper is setting the relationship between the lPMA PEM content and the IPMA lCB elements. We mapped the fOl1y six elements of lCB with the PEM nine areas and through identifying the interaction between these components we showed the improvement points for integration & relationship of these two valuable IPMA products.

PEM, lCB, Sub-criteria, Technical, Behavioral, Contextual, Competencies