There are lot of ways to earn PDUs and below are the courses
I completed to earn required 60 PDUs for PMP certificate renewal for another 3 years.
CAT F : Work as a practitioner - 10 PDUs : I have been working as a Project
Manager / Scrum Master / Release Train Engineer on my projects and PMI
rewards 5 PDU per calendar year for practicing project management. I was able to claim for last year and current
calendar year eventhough my certification is active only from Sep last year. Super cool
!
CAT C : Self Directed Learning – 8 PDUs : It is an
interesting category, I spent lot of hours (definitely more than 8 hours) to
learn about Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and many more agile best practices
in the past few months. Unlike other PDUs which are immediate approval – PMI took a
day to approve it . So I can say someone is reviewing
the submissions.
CAT A : Registered Education Provider / PMI Componet – 21 PDUs
: My company offers skillport license and they have plenty of courses which are
eligible for PMI’s PDUs. Skillport’s license # is 1008 and with the course
code, one can pull up the course from PMI and submit it as PDU. I am planning to take
PMI-ACP (I prepared for PMP 4 years - lol) and completed 21 hours of required
learning towards the same and I used those hours for PMP renewal as well.
CAT B : Continued Education – 5 PDUs : (took less than an
hour) Six Sigma White Belt certification – A free online course sponsored by
Aveta business institute. Link http://www.sixsigmaonline.org/six-sigma-white-belt-training/
CAT A : REP / PMI component – 8 PDUs : (took less than an
hour) Six Sigma Yellow Belt certification – Another free online course sponsored
by VMedu Inc., Link http://www.6sigmastudy.com/Six-Sigma-Yellow-Belt.asp
CAT A: REP / PMI component – 10 PDUs: (took less than an hour) Scrum Fundamentals
Certified – Another free online course sponsored by VMedu Inc., Link http://www.scrumstudy.com/Scrum-Fundamentals-Certified.asp
faq's:
a)
Any time you can renew your certificate during
the 3 years cycle and the extension (3 years) is only from the day of the
certificate expiry.
b)
Acquire 60 PDUs before your initial membership
runs out so that one can save dollars renewing the certificate (I managed to
complete just before my membership expires and paid only $60 for renewal)
c)
Except the self directed learning PDU, rest all
are approved instantly by PMI
d)
Be prepared to publish reports / proofs for any
possible audit.
Sincere thanks to +Saravanan G my friend & college junior
who guided me to these free materials which saved lot of internet search time.
