How PDUs are related to your knowledge, skills and experience

Published: Fri, 02/05/16

 
 
The Relationship of Earning PDUs to Your Knowledge, Skills and Experience as a Certified Project Manager
Knowledge is power when integrated with experience and skills and acted upon. However, knowledge, experience and skills must be tightly integrated to form a cohesive view of reality. Service-based project leaders must be able to forge these three together to establish a sound base for their personal competency pyramid. 

Knowledge without experience leaves the leader without the confidence to execute project strategies that may seem radical to customers or sponsors. Knowledge and experience without demonstrable skills leave the leader stagnating, just talking about what should be done.  Thus, building knowledge, experience and skills should be viewed holistically; each complements the other and is mutually necessary.

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Ask Cornelius
Hi Cornelius,

What courses are available that would help to meet the new CCR criteria, to earn the minimum requirements in each area of the triangle and to meet over all 60 PDU requirement?

Any guidance would help. Thanks!

- Suhel Siddique

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Earn PDUs with The Agile PrepCast! Enjoy $20 discount
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As a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) you need to earn 60 PDUs every 3 years for your certification renewal. 
 
By watching The Agile PrepCast you can earn 37 PDUs which means that for just $159.99 you are more than 60% done!
 
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To get you started on the right foot for 2016 we are offering an exclusive arrangement with Neal Whitten: All PM Podcast listeners who use the coupon code "pmpodcast" when purchasing a Neal Whitten eLearning Course from Velociteach will receive a 25% discount.
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FREE PDUs by The PM Podcast
Earn up to 60 PDUs from listening to The PM Podcast, as long as you meet the minimum of 8 PDUs for each of the talent triangle skill areas.

Simply click 'Play' on any free podcast episode on the website and earn your PDUs that way.
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Earn Free PDUs: Read A Book

This book contains 200 pages, the fifth edition of this popular guide gives new or veteran project managers a comprehensive overview of all of the best-of-breed project management approaches and tools today. You'll then explore five different project management life cycle (PMLC) models for managing a project: Linear, Incremental, Iterative, Adaptive, and Extreme.

Here is our recommended book for the week written by Robert K. Wysocki:

​​Effective Project Management: Traditional, Agile, Extreme

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Seminar Hours 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM
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