Can I renew PMP® & PMI-ACP® within 1 PDU Bundle?
If you’re certified in both PMP® (Project Management Professional) and PMI-ACP® (Agile Certified Practitioner), maintaining both certifications can seem like a daunting task. Fortunately, there’s a more efficient way to handle it—by leveraging a single PDU (Professional Development Unit) bundle. In this article, we’ll explore how you ca
Do I Need to Become A PMI® Member to Maintain My Credentials?
There is a common misconception that you must be a PMI® member to claim PMP® PDUs and if you are a non-member, you cannot maintain your credentials as there is no way for you to claim PDUs. This article will draw out this hypothesis. As a member, you pay $109 annually for PMI® events, products […]
How to earn 15 PDUs to renew CAPM®?
In the past, losing your CAPM® meant losing it permanently. However, there’s been a positive change: PMI® now requires 15 PDUs every three years to renew CAPM®, providing a safety net. This policy remains in effect today, ensuring you can maintain your certification status effortlessly. All about PDUs PDUs are categorized into Education and Giving [
How to earn 30 PDUs to renew PMI-ACP®, PMI-RMP®, PMI-SP®?
As a PMI-ACP®, PMI-RMP®, or PMI-SP® certificate holder, you’re already familiar with the need to renew your certification every three years through PMI®’s CCR program. To keep your certification active, you must earn 30 PDUs within this period. Here’s a dynamic guide to understanding these requirements and how you can effortlessly meet
How to earn 60 PDUs to renew PMP®, PgMP®, PfMP®, PMI-PBA®?
If you hold a PMP®, PgMP®, PfMP®, or PMI-PBA® credential, you’re likely familiar with PMI’s Continuing Certification Requirements (CCR) program, which mandates renewal every 3 years. To maintain an active certification status, you must earn 60 PDUs within this timeframe. Here’s a breakdown of what this requirement entails and how you can fu
What If I Forget to Renew PMP® Certificate?
Though it is widely known that within the cycle of 3 years you are required to accumulate 60 PDUs for the PMP® certification renewal, project managers may happen to forget to earn PDUs as life gets in the way. This article walks you through the road of what happens when you forget to renew PMP® […]
Black Swan vs. White Elephant in Project Management
In the realm of uncertainty and risk management, two intriguing concepts, Black Swans and White Elephants, provide valuable insights into unforeseen events and misguided endeavours. Nassim Nicholas Taleb, a Lebanese-American essayist renowned for his work on randomness, probability, and uncertainty, introduce the term “Black Swan” in his 2007 boo
Emotional Intelligence Framework for Project Managers
Mersino (2007) identifies three reasons why the application of Emotional Intelligence (EI) is critical to project managers: Each project is unique. Project managers are assigned to manage projects by project sponsors and then project managers acquire project teams for their projects. In most cases, project managers work with different project teams, differe
An Overview of Emotional Intelligence
The concept of emotional intelligence (EI) first came to the attention of many organizations and managers when Daniel Goleman published his first book of the same name, which was followed by a second book 3 years later (Goleman, 1995, 1998). However, the first scientific paper on this topic was published somewhat earlier in 1990 by […]
Why do Project Managers need to develop Emotional Intelligence?
How to successfully manage projects in order that projects meet their desired outcomes has become more significant over recent years, as project working has become a preferred and dominant form of work organization within an environment of increasing complexity (Clarke and Howell, 2009). The success of the project is closely related to managing 6 project [