Renewing Your PMP is a Great Feeling
In March 2016 I completed my 60 hours of PDU’s to renew my PMP.
It’s a great feeling, almost as good as passing the PMP the first time.
This is what your renewed PMP membership looks like “on screen” from PMI. See below.
Earning 60 PDU Hours to Renew Your PMP
Passing the PMP is a great event. Most of you reading this blog post haven’t passed the PMP yet.
(But when you do pass the PMP, you will be glad you saved or bookmarked this blog post.)
But passing the PMP isn’t permanent. You need to renew your PMP certification by earning 60 PDU hours every 3 years.
And in my experience, earning the 60 PDU hours was NOT an easy process. But I think it was worth my effort.
Cheap and Easy Way to Earn 60 PMP PDU Hours
My technique was “cheap”, but it certainly wasn’t easy.
If you can find a cheaper way to earn your 60 PDU hours than I have found, please leave a comment.
Earning my Last 15 PDU Hours Cost Only $25
I think that was pretty affordable.
I found that www.Lynda.com had a ten day free trial and after that it cost about $24.99 per month to use. Lynda is a wonderful learning website for many things.
If you use www.Lynda.com, search for PMI PDU approved courses. They have many courses to choose. I chose about 10 courses with topics ranging from writing better emails to using Agile project methods.
Earning my First 45 PDU Hours Was Free
I know, you’re excited. You want PDU’s for free.
Yes, I didn’t pay any money to earn my first 45 PDU’s to renew my PMP. But it did cost me “lots of time”. And, for most of us, time is money.
Here’s how I earned my first 45 PDU hours.
- Teaching the PMP. Starting in 2014 I taught the PMP for over two months. It was my first time teaching the PMP using Rita’s book. My prep time to class time ratio was 3:1, or more. Yes, I was paid to teach the course. But it was very expensive in terms of my time.
- YouTube Videos. I produced PMP related YouTube videos for fun. Then I learned that PMI would accept those as PDU hours. PMI accepted those hours as giving back to the community.
- Webinar. And finally, PMI accepted my webinars as valid PDU hours.
Now I know that PMI accepts teaching the PMP, creating YouTube videos, and hosting webinars as qualifying as PDU’s in “giving back” to the PMP community.
PMP’s: Earn Some of Your PDU’s with Richard Kraneis
After publishing two websites on passing the PMP over the last two years, I have some new PMP friends. They were students who became PMP’s.
If I helped you pass the PMP, leave a comment if you are interested in earning PDU’s through me. You might help me with a PMP study group webinar or with a YouTube video.
If you are new PMP and just found my website, leave a comment also.
Together, we can earn our needed PDU’s to renew our PMP certification.
4 comments
Hello Richard,
I came about your YouTube videos by accident and I want you to know you are fantastic. I passed my PMP in 2007. I have always wanted to train others to pass. Do you train the trainer? You are great in training.
Pearl,
Thank you for your kind comment.
I’ll send an email to you privately and we can perhaps discuss a few things for 2017.
Best Wishes,
Richard
Hi Richard,
My Name is Manish Kalla. I passed my PMP certification in Oct 2017. Since then I have been searching for various courses on Lynda but I have not been able to figure out the courses. I was wondering if you could help me in that.
Secondly, Recently I was contacted by a firm to provide then the mandatory 35 hours preparatory course to their employees. They shall be giving me a certification stating my name that I gave them that training. My question to you is “Will PMI accept that training given by me and will provide me PDUs for that or not”
Looking forward to your kind and speedy response.
Thanks & Regards,
Manish,
First, I believe Lynda.com indicated which of their courses served as PDU’s for renewing your PMP. Read the course descriptions to find the answer. You could also use Lynda’s help desk or sales group to ask them what courses qualify for PDU’s.
Second, I believe PMI will accept “some” of those 35 hours for PDU’s but not all of them. When I taught webinars via this website PMI accepted all of my hours for PDUs. When you submit those 35 hours for PDU’s I’m pretty sure PMI will tell you they only accept some hours. It’s just how PMI works.
Best Wishes,
Richard