The Strategic AI Project Management Certified Practitioner is the only certification built around the ALIGN360-AI Framework. A six-phase methodology designed for the project manager's role in AI delivery.
Built for the leaders who govern, sequence, and de-risk AI work. Not the engineers who write the model.
The published research is clear. The majority of enterprise AI initiatives never reach production, and the failures are rarely technical. They stall at strategic alignment, data readiness, governance, and adoption. Each one a project management problem.
Traditional project management certifications teach you to manage scope, schedule, and cost. They were not designed for probabilistic systems, model drift, retraining loops, or the regulatory and ethical guardrails that AI delivery demands. SAIPM-CP closes that gap.
You don't need to write Python to govern an AI project. You need to read a data assessment, challenge a model risk report, sequence cross-functional delivery, and hold vendors accountable for outcomes. That's what SAIPM-CP teaches.
Enough technical depth to govern. No more than that.
The framework is the spine of the SAIPM-CP curriculum. Every module, lab, and assessment maps to a phase. Every governance decision maps to an enabler. You learn it the way you'll use it on Monday morning.
Translate executive vision into AI initiatives mapped to measurable business outcomes. Stop sponsoring science projects.
Define the value hypothesis, quantify expected return, and prioritize the AI portfolio against opportunity cost.
Assess data readiness, surface model risks, and establish governance guardrails before delivery begins.
Select the right delivery approach, build a high-performing cross-functional team, and create an AI roadmap that connects execution to strategy.
Manage the experimental nature of AI model development, evaluation cycles, and the iterative learning loops that separate successful AI projects from failed ones.
Operationalize models into business workflows, MLOps, and the change management that makes adoption stick.
SAIPM-CP is designed for the people accountable for AI delivery outcomes, not the people writing the model code.
Adding AI delivery competence to a strong PMP or SAFe foundation.
Standing up AI governance, intake, and portfolio practices inside an enterprise PMO.
Leading digital, data, or AI transformation initiatives that cross multiple business units.
Building product organizations around AI capabilities needing a delivery framework for probabilistic systems.
Advising clients on AI initiatives. Add a recognized methodology and certification to differentiate.
Running internal AI practices or centers of excellence needing delivery rigor.
A recognized credential signaling that you can govern AI delivery, not just describe it.
The same six-phase methodology applied across your portfolio. A shared language for sponsors, delivery teams, and governance forums.
Templates, intake forms, governance artifacts, and assessment instruments. Corporate capstone participants leave with a deliverable built for their own organization.
Cohort-based by design. The people in the room are the people you'll trade notes with for years.
Individual students earn SAIPM-CP through a certification exam. Corporate cohort participants complete a capstone: an AI delivery plan for a real initiative in their own organization. Built throughout the program, presented to peers, and defended with governance and prioritization decisions that hold up under scrutiny.
Two paths to certification. One standard of rigor.
SAIPM-CP is the only certification built around the ALIGN360-AI Framework. The framework, the manual, and the assessment instruments were developed specifically for the people accountable for AI delivery outcomes inside enterprises.
The certification complements the project management foundation you already hold. It does not replace it. Bring your PMP, your SAFe, your existing credentials. Add the AI delivery layer.
Founder and CEO of PPM University. Creator of the ALIGN360-AI Framework. PMI PMO of the Year Award Judge. Two decades of enterprise program delivery across healthcare, financial services, and federal sectors. Military veteran.
PPM University was built on a simple premise. Talented professionals are passed over for AI leadership roles every day, not because they lack the skill, but because the credentials never matched the work. SAIPM-CP closes that gap.
Cohorts are intentionally small. The peer network is part of the curriculum, and that only works at human scale. If you lead AI delivery, sponsor it, or advise on it, this is the room.