This standard, the IPMA Project Excellence Baseline® (IPMA PEB), is designed to promote excellence in managing projects and programmes, and complements our previous standards for individual competences IPMA Individual Competence Baseline (IPMA ICB®) and organisational competences in managing projects IPMA Organisational Competence Baseline (IPMA OCB®).

The main target audiences for the IPMA PEB are senior managers, project, programme and portfolio managers (including Project Management Office (PMO) and project staff) as well as project excellence assessors, consultants, trainers and coaches.