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1. Visit the Continuous Certification Requirements System at PMI website. To your top right edge of the page, long in using your PMI username & password. (To report your PDUs, you have to have a valid PMI username/password, and they work even if you are not a member anymore, as they are linked to your certificate number, not your membership).
2. Once you log in, click on the “Report Professional Development Units (PDUs)” link on the left navigation.
3. From the list, choose the right category that you wish to report your PDUs under. For example, if you have attended one of Intrinsic’s training workshops, you will choose Category 3 – Registered Education Provider.
4. Fill in the information as you are instructed. Every category will require different set of information.
5. You will receive a confirmation email once all data has been received to PMI, and another confirmation once you have been approved the PDUs you reported, or if there’s a follow up action that you need to do.

The main thing to watch out from is the hours of experience you enter in each project. This should account towards one of the prerequisits of your eligibility (4500 experience hours in project management for the PMP, and 6000 experience hours of Project Management and another 6000 for Program Management for the PgMP).

You can use the Excel sheet (Download Here) to help you add the different projects & program experience, and calculate the maximum number of hours, and how to separate those hours in order to both fulfill your requirements, and avoid getting audited.

How to use the Attached Sheet:

1. Start by listing your projects at the top row (row 2) Always start with the longest project that you have worked the most on.
2. You can only use experience as back as 7 years in your career, so don’t go beyond 7 years ago (for those who have a BA degree).
3. Once you have listed your projects, start highlighting the months you’ve worked on those projects/programs during (notice how I have already highlighted a couple to illustrate what is meant with that.
4. This is especially important for the months in which you have overlapping projects in them. For each row, you should not list more than a total of 130-150 working hours so that you do not get audited. Of course, we all know that we sometimes work much more than that, but you have to remember that the system checks for the regular working hours.
5. You keep adding the projects and their hours, and at the same time, the “Hours” column will keep accumulating these hours until you reach the qualifying hours.
6. For each row with hours listed in it, you add “1″ under the “Months” Column so that you accumulate the needed qualifying months.
7. Once you fulfill all the requirements, you can now use the amount of hours under each project to insert in your application according to their actual implementation in a project (Recommendation: Use the percentages that are well known as follows:

• Initiation: 10%
• Planning: 20%
• Execution: 20%
• Monitoring & Control: 30%
• Closure: 10%

Hope this helps… and Good Luck!