Whatever project your organisation is launching - the rolling out of new products and services, improving customer experiences or business productivity - Half Double Certification can help.
Time after time, research reveals that only 30% of projects are successful*. Most projects simply do not result in the impact they intended to. The Half Double Institute is a non-profit foundation whose methodology addresses this problem. Working in conjunction with three universities and 2,500 of the best project managers in Denmark, their methodology was created after comprehensively researching why some projects are successful, but most fail. Trials of this methodology across 16 pilot projects in 16 different organisations, resulted in 87% of these pilot projects fulfilling or partly fulfilling the project success criteria. A vast improvement in project success.
Half Double focuses on three core principles – Flow, Leadership and Impact – which leads to greater value creation and this proven increase in project success rates. Change management is also embedded in the methodology.
Half Double training and certification will teach candidates simple tools and practices to take back to their organizations, enabling their projects to have more impact in less time.
Look at Half Double’s video case studies and find out how they have helped launch better products and services quicker and executed change faster. See how Half Double projects can be completed in less time, and result in double the impact.
* Standish Group, 1994-2018
Half Double Foundation
The Foundation exam can be taken after an Ignite Training session.
- Individuals interested in a career in project or programme management
- Practising project or programme managers
- Functional leaders, for example project owners
- Consultants, Coaches and Trainers
- People with interest in and knowledge of project management.
Knowledge:
- The three core Half Double elements - Impact, Flow and Leadership and how the methodology is designed
- How Local Translation relates to the three core elements
- The Half Double methods and tools and how these can be applied in a practical context
- How to explain the methodology, methods and tools to project management peers
- How to explain why the methods might need to be adapted, as ‘one size does not fit all’.
Skills:
- As a part of team, how to apply all the Half Double tools
- On a real-life project, how to apply at least one method or tool per core element
- Assessment of a specific context and adaptation of the methods and tools as appropriate.
Competencies:
- Identify and organize own learning needs and how to apply the Half Double tools when returning to work.
- How to use the Half Double methodology to deliver enhanced project on a project and lead a temporary organization.
- 40 simple multiple-choice questions
- 60 minutes duration
- Open book (unrestricted materials)
- 70% pass mark (28 marks out of 40).
Half Double Practitioner
The Practitioner Certification can be achieved after participating in Boost and Practitioner...
- Individuals interested in a career in project or programme management
- Practising project or programme managers
- Functional leaders, for example project owners
- Consultants, Coaches and Trainers.
Knowledge:
- A deep understanding on how the methods are mutually related and how Active Ownership enforces the implementation other methods
- Understand change management perspectives and relate these to local translation
Skills:
- Share lessons learnt in small teams
- Can explain the methodology and its methods and tools to project management peers
- Assess a specific context and adapt the Half Double methods and tools accordingly to obtain the desired benefits
- Execution of the plan created in the Ignite training session and has gained experience from their own project
- Be a collaborative project leader that confidently can apply methods to handle uncertainty and motivate their project owner to engage actively in a project
Abilities:
- Increased ability to apply Half Double methods on projects
- Increased ability to make conscious adaptions to the methods and tools
- Can deliver project impact in a significantly reduced timeframe
- Increased ability to cut project lead time and increase project impact
- Able to use the Half Double methodology to deliver an enhanced project and lead a temporary organisation.
Through submitting a written application and undertaking a 1 hour assessment interview . You will need to demonstrate a high level of reflection on the methodology, own practice and how Half Double successfully can create more impact faster in the candidate’s / your own organisation.
Half Double Practitioner Re-Certification
Maintain your certified Practitioner status
Re-certification is required every 3 years to ensure that you have maintained your knowledge of the Half Double methodology and are continuing to apply this knowledge in practice.
Individuals who already hold the Half Double Practitioner certification.
- You will need to submit a written application and undertake a 1 hour assessment interview.
- You will need to demonstrate a high level of reflection on the methodology, own practice and how Half Double successfully can create more impact faster in an organisation.
- You will also need to provide contact details of a reference person who has worked with you on delivering a project applying the Half Double methodology.
Half Double Master
The Master certification can be achieved after participating in Boost & Master class training
Half Double Master is for Project, Programme and PMO Managers who want to prove they can create impact with their projects. This certification demonstrates competence and an application can only be submitted if you are a Half Double Practitioner and you have taken part in a Master Boost Course and a Master Class.
- How to impact KPIs and how to apply them as lacking or leading indicators for project impact and understand how they fit with Impact Solution Design and Pulse Checks
- How adapting leadership behaviour continuously can increase the focus on project impact rather than simple deliverable generation
- How to adapt your behaviour to engage stakeholders in multiple directions and apply specific measures to create a positive and constructive collaboration with project owners
- How to assess what Half Double Portfolio elements that can be taken into use and locally adapted to your own organization to reduce project lead time and increase impact
- How to identify and assess specific points and enablers that should be adapted in order to create organisational traction with Half Double
- How to communicate practice-related problems and possible solutions for creating impact in the organisation.
Through submitting a written application and undertaking a 1-2 hour assessment interview. You will need to demonstrate a high level of reflection on the methodology, your own practice and how Half Double can successfully create more impact faster in your organisation.
Half Double Master Re-Certification
Maintain your certified Master status
Re-certification is required every 3 years to ensure that you have maintained your knowledge of the Half Double methodology and are continuing to apply this knowledge in practice.
Individuals who already hold the Half Double Master certification.
- You will need to submit a detailed written application.
- You will need to demonstrate a high level of reflection on the methodology, own practice and how Half Double successfully can create more impact faster in an organisation.
- You will also need to provide contact details of two reference persons who have worked with you on delivering a project applying the Half Double methodology.