How To Earn 60 Free PDUs The Easy Way

Published: Fri, 02/17/17

How To Earn 60 Free PDUs The Easy Way
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Looking for a way to earn PDUs for free? Subscribe to The PM Podcast!

With The PM Podcast, earning your 60 PDUs for Project Management Professional (PMP)® recertification has never been simpler. Here is how you can do it in 4 easy steps:
  1. Subscribe to The PM Podcast on your phone
  2. Listen to any free or premium episode
  3. Document your learning in our PDU logfile
  4. Claim your PDUs
 
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Earn Free PDUs: Read A Book

Here is our recommended book for the week written by Jack Ferraro, PMP:

​​​​​​​The Strategic Project Leader: Mastering Service-Based Project Leadership



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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.

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Easy PDU Collection #2:
Research Project Management Literature
Here is the second of 3 articles written by Oliver F. Lehmann, MSc., PMP and Antje Lehmann-Benz, M.A., PMP.

In this article, they discuss that general research is also a great way to earn PDUs to maintain your Project Management Professional (PMP)® Certification.

Read this article to know more about this inexpensive way of earning your PDUs while expanding your project management knowledge at the same time.
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Earn 0.50 free PDUs right now by listening to:
Aligning Projects with Organizational Strategy
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Projects are the tool businesses use to take a strategy and turn it into reality. So your project better be aligned with your long term business plan. All of them!

This interview about strategic alignment with Jay Payette was recorded at the Project Management Institute (PMI)® Global Congress 2016 in San Diego, California. We discuss his presentation and white paper Making it Happen - How Project Managers Can Drive Strategic Alignment and Strategy Execution. Here is the abstract:

Good strategy can be critical to organizational success, however in order for strategy to transform from ideas into results it must be successfully executed. In order for organizations to successfully formulate and execute strategy they must achieve sufficient strategic alignment.

Project managers and project team members can make a critical contribution to their organization’s strategic alignment. This paper examines strategic alignment through the frame of three strategic functions: formulate, align, and execute and how they interact with each other.

Additionally, three strategic alignment frameworks are presented and recommendations are made as to how they may be used by project managers to contribute to organizational strategic alignment at the project-level.
Click Here to Listen to the Interview Now!
PDU Tip: This interview is 29 minutes and 30 seconds long. This means that it is 30 seconds too short and you can "legally" only claim 0.25 PDUs for listening to it. However... if you first listen to the interview and then also read the white paper on which it is based, then you can go ahead and claim 0.50 PMP® PDUs! 
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Ask Cornelius
Question: 

1. as I'm a PMI® member now, I see that they have many ways for getting PDU, even PMI.org have its live and recorded webinar. Is there any difference with LIVE and RECORDED? Do I just claim the PDU in the same way? (will it be automatically added to my PDU if I register the live webinar? I think not?)

2. If PMI.org have its own webinar then it means I don't need to see other PM Podcast to claim my PDU right? What's the advantage or disadvantage of these choice?

3. I see that it can claim ITIL course as PDU but I've already earned that certificate. I may join courses such as SCRUM or MCSE, will they be counted to the PDU? Will they fall into the 3-triangle categories?
I hope I can solve these problems before I decide how to earn PDU. 

Thanks,
Lawrence Li
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Provider: SeminarsWorld®
Date: April 3 - 6, 2017
Seminar Hours 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
PDUs: up to 21     CEUs: 2.1
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               1425 Rue De La Montagne
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