How can one maintain their credential, what types of PDUs are there, and what is the best and cheapest way to meet the requirements.

1. Keeping Your Credential…
Advancing Your Knowledge…
Abeer Abu Nejim
Training Manager
Intrinsic Training
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2. Why Do I need to maintain my
credential?
What do I need to do to
maintain my credential?
How do I do that?
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3. WHY SHOULD I MAINTAIN
MY CREDINIITIONAL?
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4. Why To Maintain Credentials?
• Continuing Certification Requirements
(CCR)…
• Because knowledge and standards keeps
changing and updating,
• Professionals have to exercise and practice
their knowledge, to transfer it to skills,
• Giving back to the profession!
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5. WHAT DO INEED TO DO?
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6. Gaining PDUs…
• Professional Development Unit,
• Varies according to the certificate,
• Several categories and types…
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7. Continuing Certification
Requirements-CCR Program
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Credential Number of PDUs
Project Management Professional-PMP 60
Program Management Professional-PgMP 60
PMI-Scheduling Professional-SP 30
PMI-Risk Management Professional-RMP 30
Certified Associate in Project Management-CAPM No PDUs, Re Exam at
end of cycle

8. WHAT IF YOU HAVE MORE THAN
ONE CERTIFICATE?
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10. PDUs Categories…
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Formal
Academic
Education
University Courses
Higher Education
Professional
Activities and
Self-Directed
Learning
Author of article
Speaker on project
management
Author or co-author
of textbook
Developer of
content
Read a book
Courses
offered by PMI
R.E.P. or
Components.
REPs
Chapter
eSeminars
Courses
Offered by
Other
Education
Providers
Other education
providers for non
PM
Volunteers
Service to
Professional or
Community
Organizations
PMI Volunteers
Local Volunteer
Chapter

11. HOW TO GET PDUS?
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12. Reporting Your PDUs
Report them as they occur…
http://www.pmi.org/ccrs
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18. Do what good Project
Managers Do
Maintaining your Professional credentials is
not as hard as most people think, as long as
you plan it well. Treat your re-certification as a
Project. Follow the same processes that you
do on your projects - Initiate, Plan, Execute,
Monitor and Control, Close.
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19. THANK YOU 
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