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Question:
I am both a PMP and a PMI-RMP. Do I have to earn 90 PDUs in total to renew both my credentials?
Answer:
The short answer is "No you don't, because they can be combined." Here is how this works in detail:
You are a PMP and therefore you have to earn 60 PDUs every 3 years. You are also a PMI-RMP and therefore you must also earn 30 PDUs for this credential. There is a big difference between the 60/30 PDUs that you need to earn and there is also good news for you.
The big difference between the PDUS that you need to earn is this: For the renewal of your PMP certification you have to earn 60 PDUs, which can be from pretty much any and all areas of project management, as long as they relate to the PMBOK Guide. For the PMI-RMP however, you have to earn 30 PDUs in the specialized area of project risk management. The good news is that you don't have to earn a total of 90 PDUs, because the PDUs you earn for your PMI-RMP also count toward your PMP renewal!
Here are two examples:
Let's first assume that you are taking a course about Implementing Risk Indicators. This is a 2-day long course and at the end you receive a certificate for 16 Category A PDUs in risk management. These 16 PDUs can now be counted toward your PMI-RMP renewal because they are qualifying PDUs in risk management. At the same time they automatically count toward your PMP renewal. This happens automatically in PMI's online CCRS system when you input them.
Let's now assume that you are preparing a presentation about Fundamentals of Risk Management for your local PMI chapter. You spend 7.5 hours preparing the presentation and 1 hour delivering it. You have now earned 8.5 Category D PDUs since both preparation time and delivery time can be counted. And again: when you claim these PDUs in the online CCRS system these PDUs will be applied toward your PMI-RMP as well as your PMP renewal.
So my recommendations for anyone holding two or more PMI credentials are simple:
- Earn PDUs for your "non PMP" credential first, because they count for both credentials
- Claim these PDUs in the online CCRS system https://ccrs.pmi.org/ and verify that the system applies them to both your credentials. If not contact PMI and ask for a correction.
- Once you have earned enough PDUs for your "non PMP" credential continue to earn and claim the remaining PDUs for your PMP certification.
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Until next time,
Cornelius Fichtner, PMP
President, OSP International LLC
The Project Management PrepCast(TM) - http://www.project-management-prepcast.com
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Provider:Eclipse Project Portfolio Management
What: Effective PPM Change Management
When: January 10th, 2012
Time: 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EST
Where: Live Webinar
PDUs: Category C 1 PDU- Free PDU
Description:
Project Portfolio Management (PPM) initiatives are expected to provide significant benefit to multiple roles within an organization.
Intuitively, most staff can understand the potential value in the organization, process and technology changes involved with a PPM initiative. However, the lack of change management practices through a PPM initiative's implementation is one of the most common reasons for their failure. Symptoms of this issue can include poor executive commitment, resistance or political pressure from functional management and compliance issues with project teams.
Eclipse will review common misconceptions about PPM initiative implementations, provide some guiding principles for successful change and detail the steps and key communication messages necessary to gain buy-in from executive and functional management as well as from project teams.
This webinar will also provide tips that can be incorporated into the initiation and planning of your PPM initiative to increase your odds of success.
Who should attend this webinar?
C-Level Management, IT Directors and Managers or Directors of PMOs
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Component: eSeminarsWorld
What: eSeminarsWorld Advanced Risk Management
When: 01/10/2013 - 01/24/2013
Cost:
PMI Member Early Rate: Not Applicable (US)
PMI Member Regular Rate: $725 (US)
Non-Member Rate: $875 (US)
Where: e-Learning
PDUs: 14
Description:
Delivering successful results depends on the project manager's ability to increase the probability and impact of positive events and decrease the probability and impact of negative events in their projects. Although both the PMBOK® Guide-Fourth Edition and the Practice Standard for Risk Management describe processes to assist the project manager in these goals, students who want to apply advanced risk management tools and techniques will benefit from this course and learn to;
- Balance the competing demands of stakeholder objectives with project capabilities and capacity,
- Analyze the human factors dimension of risk management, and
- Evaluate the impact of risks and uncertainties to the post-project realization of value and capture of benefits.
Register Here.
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Earn Free PDUs: Read A Book |
Each hour that you spend in
self-directed learning activities such as reading books or articles
counts as 1 Category C PDU (Professional Development Units) up to a maximum of 30. Here is this week's
book recommendation for you:
Project Pain Reliever: A Just-In-Time Handbook for Anyone Managing Projects
Written by: Dave Garrett
Project Pain Reliever is uniquely organized in essentially a plug-and-play format designed to help these project managers quickly find specific solutions to the problems that they are desperate to fix right now!
Key Features:
- Covers both the art and science of project management and is organized by problem so that users need only review the table of contents, find their problem within a sub-chapter heading, read through the solution, and apply it
- Delivers insightful peer-reviewed solutions from 36 project management thought leaders, subject matter experts and successful practitioners
- Each of the 93 sub-chapters describes a common project management problem and its warning signs in a way that is easy to relate to, explains what will happen if you do nothing, and outlines a best practice solution which provides specific steps and techniques for solving the problem.
Click here to order this book now...
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PDU Tip: Earning PDUs By Creating New Knowledge
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Want to learn where to earn your Professional Development Units (PDUs) easily? In our series of PDU Tips we are exploring the many ways you can earn PDUs.
Today we look at how you can gain PDUs by creating new project management knowledge. "New knowledge"? That sounds complicated, doesn't it?
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