Earn Pre-approved PMI PDUs

The Talent Triangle by PMI is the description of the areas of competence in which a project manager should be skilled, in order to do justice to his role at work. This essentially talks about three skills namely, Technical Skills, Leadership Skills and Strategic Skills. By emphasizing these skills, the project manager can add great value to his profile. The PDUs by PMI are now categorized as:

• Technical PDUs
• Strategic & Business Management PDUs
• Leadership PDUs

The revised PDU requirements of PMP recertification are as follows:

• Minimum 35 PDUs in the Training & education category which are further divided as-
  Technical Project management- Minimum 8
  Leadership- Minimum 8 PDUs
  Strategic and Business Management- Minimum 8 PDUs
• Maximum number of PDUs gained through “Giving back to the profession” category is 25.
  A maximum of 8 PDUs can be gained by working as a project manager.
  A maximum of 25 PDUs can be gained by each volunteering and developing new knowledge in Project Management.

Each course has a specific Activity ID for its PDUs. For claiming your PDUs, all you need to do is paste the Activity ID in the required space in PMI’s official website according to the different types of PDUs you have; for example, 20 technical, 10 leadership and 15 strategic PDUs for Lean Six Sigma Black belt course. Once you finish doing this, you’ll get a link through which you can claim your PDUs.

The PMI PDUs can be broadly classified into the following two types:

• Continuing Education
  They consist of Technical Project Management, Leadership, Strategic and Business Management PDUs.
• Working in the profession
  • By development of new knowledge in project management
  • Volunteer in the various live and virtual PMI events around the world.
  • Work in the respective environment as a Project Manager.

All the certificates by PMI must be renewed after a specified number of years. For re-certification, certain number of "Professional Development Units (PDU)" should be collected, the number and category of which is specific to each certification.