What are the PMP® PDU Requirements?

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If you are looking to renew your PMP certification, you must earn PMP PDUs to renew your certification and keep your certification in good standing. And you must be aware of the PMI requirements for PMP PDU.

“What are the PMP PDU requirements”

PMI requires certification renewal for all of its certifications except CAPM – Certified Associate in Project Management. Therefore, if you have a PMP certification, you must be careful to earn 60 PDUs in each three years. After you completed 60 PDUs, you must submit these in PMI website and apply for PMP certification renewal respectively.

PDU stands for Professional Development Unit, and PMI was not classifying PDUs until 2016. PMP certified professionals were attending trainings, courses, activities and working as a practitioner in the projects. Upon submitting their earned PDUs, they were having the right to renew their PMP certification.

In 2016, PMI introduced the PMI Talent Triangle and brought new requirements for earning PDUs. Changes in the PDU submission cover new PMI PDU categories, PMP PDU breakdown, and PMP PDU limits for each category.

PMI Talent Triangle proposes that an ideal project manager skill set includes technical project management skills, strategic and business management skills, and leadership skills. Therefore, a PMP certified professional must earn PMP PDUs, which are corresponding to these three categories of the PMI Talent Triangle. Now, let us go through the details of PMP PDU requirements one-by-one.

PMP PDU Requirements #1 – Minimum 35 Education PMP PDUs

First PMP PDU requirement is; a PMP certified professional must earn at least 35 education PMP PDUs. Education category has following sources for earning PDUs:

● Course or Training
● Organization Meetings
● Online or Digital Media
● Read
● Informal Learning

Moreover, these education PDUs must contain at least 8 PDUs from each category of the PMI talent triangle: Strategic, Technical and Leadership. Once you completed the 8 PDUs from each category, remaining 11 PDUs of the education category can be from any of the PMI talent triangle categories. Note that, 35 PDU from education category is the minimum PMP PDU limit requirement. Therefore, you can complete all of your 60 PMP PDU need from education category.

This is the way we recommend PMP certified professionals. Because, we will see the giving back PMP PDU categories that they require you to be more “active” like preparing a content, presentation, volunteering etc. However, in the education category, you attend a training course or meeting etc. You are more “passive” and once you have completed the activity, you will earn the associated PDUs.

PMP PDU Requirements #2 – Maximum 25 Giving Back PMP PDUs

The second PMI PDU category is giving back category. A PMP certified professional can submit 25 PMP PDU at most from the giving back category. Giving Back PMI PDU category has following sources for earning PDUs:

● Work as Practitioner
● Create Content
● Give a Presentation
● Share Knowledge
● Volunteer

In addition, out of these PMP PDUs from giving back category, PMP PDU limit for the “Work as Practitioner” category is maximum 8 PDUs. Work as practitioner covers the project management activities you will be doing in your job. You can submit your projects and project management activities during your PDU submission and these will bring you 8 PDUs in each three years.

As you can see, other alternatives of earning PMP PDU from giving back category are creating content, giving a presentation, sharing knowledge and volunteering. These all require you to perform additional effort compared to earning education PDUs. Therefore, especially if you are a working professional, we strongly recommend you to earn all 60 PMP PDUs by attending an online PMP PDU course. This is the hassle free, most convenient and affordable way of earning 60 PDUs and renewing your PMP certification. You can consider our 60 PMP PDU Online course bundle.

PMP PDU Requirements #3 – Same Activity Cannot Be Used in a New CCRS Cycle

If you have attended a 35 contact hours PMP certification training, and if this course was satisfying your PM education requirement to sit for the PMP exam, you cannot use this same activity when renewing your PMP certification. You must attend new courses or activities to earn PMP PDUs.

Similarly, if you used PMP PDU course, organization, or any other material in your previous CCRS cycles, you cannot use the same activity in your future PMP certification renewals.

What are the PMI PDU Categories?

We have gone through the PMI PDU categories when we are explaining the PMP PDU requirements. Now, we will describe the subcategories of each PMI PDU category and the activities that belong to these PMI PDU categories.