Professional Development

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PMI Certification and You

• Professional Development
• Tampa Bay Chapter, PMI
• www.pmi-tampabay.org

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What this presentation is about

• Application process
• Helpful links
• FAQs
• Certification/Credential responsibility
• After credentialing what next?
• Does not cover
• What is PM
• Should you be a PMP?
• Should I take a class?

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Benefits

• Expedites professional advancement
• Creates job growth/opportunities within an
  organization
• Provides framework for standardized project
  management requirements
• Increases employees value to the organization

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PMI Membership Application

• http//www.pmi.org/info/GMC_MembershipApplication.
  pdf

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Credentialing

• Project Management Professional (PMP)
• Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM)
  
• OPM3 ProductSuite
• NEW Program Management
• For more information about PMI certifications,
  follow this link
• PMI Certifications Overview

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Need Certification?

• PMP named to Certcities.coms 10 hottest
  certifications for 2006 More
• Project Management Professional (PMP) credential
  ranks highly in IT industry salary survey.
• http//redmondmag.com/salarysurveys/
• The Value of PM Certification
• http//www.jmac.com.tw/file/ch/20040209.doc

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PMP CAPM Requirements (Choose Column )
PMP CAPM Requirements (Choose Column )
PMP CAPM Requirements (Choose Column )
OR
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Steps..

• Apply
• select category 1 or 2 (page 3 of handbook)
• fill out the forms (starting on pg 13)
• agree to abide by the Project Management
  Professional Code of Professional Conduct (page
  22 also know for exam)
• mail or submit on-line
• Pass application process

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Steps..

• Study
• Guide to the Project Management Body
  of Knowledge, A (PMBOK Guide), paperback, Third
  Edition
• Take Exam
• Pass Exam!
• PMI Continuing Certification Requirement
• 60 PDUs every 3 years

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Study Materials

• PMI book store, Exam Prep section
• Google Rita Mulcahy, PMI, PMP, . these sites
  offer books, cds, flashcards, etc.
  http//www.rmcproject.com/product/prep.htm
• PMP Exam Classes vs. PM classes
• Know the difference! (exam class is.NOT
  designed towards teaching applied project
  management, but for exam preparation only)

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PMP Exam Application

• PMI Certification Exam Information
• 4 Criteria to Certification
• Education
• PM Experience
• PM Schooling (contact hours)
• Knowledge - Pass Exam!
• Copy pgs (4, 5, 6) depending on need
• Sign where necessary

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FAQ - Credential

• PMP Credential Application Page 3
• Experience Verification Form - Part I - help
• Q  What if your organization contact is no
  longer with the company? 
• PMI Candidates applying for the PMP or CAPM
  exams may submit contact information for people
  who are no longer with a company the
  candidate worked for. However, the contact
  information must be valid.
• Q  What if your organization is no longer in
  tact? Can you still write them down?PMI General
  ly, we discourage candidates from submitting
  applications with experience they may have
  difficulty providing a valid contact for.
  However, as long as the contact information
  supplied for that company is valid, the candidate
  may submit experience from organizations that are
  no longer in existence. 

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FAQ Credential (contd)

• Q  What if you are writing in private/small
  business contact information is this ok?
• PMI Candidates may submit experience from any
  employer, regardless of size. 
• Q What experience can you put down?
• PMI Before ruling out the PMP exam, though,
  take a hard look at your resume. I have seen a
  lot of people assume that they need to be in
  charge of a whole project, or that a project
  needs to be large in scope, in order to claim
  their professional experience. The requirement is
  to "lead or direct". That could include being a
  team leader reporting to a project manager, or
  even directing and organizing a single-person
  project (directing yourself), so long as you
  really formed objectives, directed the work, and
  brought the work to a close. Some of the phases
  like "initiating" seem difficult to claim
  experience with, but starting up a PHASE of a
  larger effort can also count. Experience
  requirements can also be met through volunteer
  work or project work at school, as well as
  job-related experience. You may find that you
  actually DO qualify for the PMP.

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Costs Summary(1st quarter, 2006)
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R.E.P.

• http//www.occe.ou.edu/cgi-bin/PMI_Provider/repsea
  rch.cgi
• Or
• Local Chapters offering Exam Prep!!
• Tampa Bay PMI Exam Prep (450 for members!!)

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Exam ?

• http//www.pmi.org/prod/groups/public/documents/in
  fo/NewPMPFAQ.pdf
• Want to know more?
• Sign up for a PMP Exam Prep Class !

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Certified? Now What?

• PDUs must be attained in 5 specific categories
• Post certification formal education
• Self-directed learning and professional
  activities
• Programs sponsored by PMI Registered Education
  Providers (R.E.P.s)
• Programs sponsored by other providers
• Service to professional/community associations
• http//www.pmi.org/info/PDC_Cert_CCR_Qualfy_Act.as
  p

CCR Continuing Certification Requirement PDU
Professional Development Unit
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Help Yourself Help Tampa PMI

• Chapter Sponsored Activities (PDUs)

Chapter Meetings 1 PDU
Tampa Symposium 8 PDUs
Board Member, Director, Volunteer or
Instructor 5 10 PDUs
Conferences, Expos, Workshops PDUs galore!
CCR Continuing Certification Requirement PDU
Professional Development Unit
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PDU Tracking

• PDUs self monitoring
• File for auditing purposes!
• - member id
• - certification
• Local activities reporting forms
• (see Tampabay Professional Development website
  links)
• Post online through your member id at
  pmi.org

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CAPM Certification

• Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM)
• Start ? March 2003
• Designed for practitioners who are new to the
  project management industry
• Who is suited to seek CAPM certification?
• People who seek to establish and demonstrate a
  common base of knowledge and terms in the field
  of project management. Such people might include
• Project team members
• Early stage project management practitioners who
  will use the CAPM as a stepping stone to the
  Project Management Professional (PMP)
• Students at either the undergraduate level or
  graduate level
• What are the requirements? (see spreadsheet)
• Either
• 1,500 hours of work on a project team
• OR
• 23 contact hours of formal education in project
  management (one contact hour is equivalent to one
  actual hour of training or instruction received)