Professional Membership

Professional Membership is open to professionals who have successfully completed the TIPA Assessor or TIPA Lead Assessor certification exam. These individuals have demonstrated that they have developed the competencies and skills necessary to use TIPA, professionally, and want to continue to be engaged with the TIPA framework.

Any individual who becomes officially certified as an Assessor becomes automatically eligible for TIPA Professional Membership. Certified TIPA Assessors or Lead Assessors have to maintain their membership in order to retain their certification.

Professional Membership is relevant to anyone who is:

  • Certified as a TIPA Assessor or TIPA Lead Assessor.
  • Employed by an organization that wants to conduct assessments internally within the same organization OR works for an organization that intends to provide TIPA assessment services commercially (i.e., organizations that are TIPA Organizational Members).
  • Interested in participating in a growing vendor-neutral, structured and repeatable framework for the measurement of IT process-maturity.
  • Serious about enhancing skills related to IT Service Management implementations, and giving recommendations for process improvements.
  • Committed to continuing education, professional growth and career advancement.
  • Dedicated to best practices or carrying out performing performance evaluations.
The benefits of becoming a Professional Member are:
  • Authorization to license the TIPA toolbox.
  • Authorization by the official TIPA governing body to conduct TIPA assessments internally, at the organizations they are employed with.
  • Authorization to use titles that indicate official certifications i.e., Certified TIPA Assessor or TIPA Lead Assessor.
  • Recognition and credibility through registration as Assessors or Lead Assessors on the official TIPA website
  • Access to the latest updates of TIPA tools and Intellectual Property
  • Member discounts on purchases of ITIL, COBIT or ISO/IEC 20000 courses
  • Access to a ‘Community of Practice’ for Assessors and Lead Assessors to share information and contribute to further versions of the TIPA framework

Becoming a Professional Member

Any individual who becomes officially certified as an Assessor or Lead Assessor is eligible for TIPA Professional Membership. On successful certification, the professionals will be invited to register as a TIPA Professional Member and download the toolbox.

See the Certification page for more details on becoming an Assessor or Lead Assessor or send an email to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it with an indication of your interest.

Professional Membership Fee and Criteria

The professional membership scheme is closely associated with the certification scheme, therefore, the annual dues collected for maintaining certification includes the Professional Membership fee. This fee covers the cost of the provision of membership and certification services (see benefits of Professional Membership). To maintain the certification and ensure continued services, the membership has to be renewed annually.

Fee structure:

  • For TIPA Assessor, an annual fee of $495 is charged
  • For TIPA Lead Assessor, an annual fee of $695 is charged

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Membership Fee Terms & Conditions

  • Join during the period of January 1 – June 30, 2012, for membership rights through December 31st 2012.
  • Only one fee category applies to professionals; in case a professional i.e., if certified both as both TIPA Assessor and a Lead Assessor, the Lead Assessor fees apply.
  • All membership dues are non-refundable.