Earn Free PDUs!

Yes – you can now earn up to 15 Professional Development Units (PDUs) per Continuing Certification Requirements cycle through www.pmi.org by simply subscribing and listening to the pm411.org podcast.  For every 1 hour that you listen to the pm411.org podcast, you qualify for 1 PDU through PMI.  More information on earning Category 2 Self-directed Learning PDUs can be found in the PMI Continuing Certification Requirements System Page.  Best of all…  It’s Free!

Podcasts have emerged as a valuable tool for project management related education. They are a simple method of delivering pm-based thought and education to the project management community at-large. This is especially true for those practitioners among us to whom geography or scheduling is a roadblock.

This is why it has been possible for you as a PMP® to claim Category 2-SDL PDUs for listening to project management related podcasts. This has been in effect since 2006. SDL stands for Self Directed Learning. Please refer to the PMI’s official list of Professional Development Unit (PDU) Qualifying Activities for all the details about PDUs.

There are a few basic rules to remember:

  • You can only submit 15 Category 2-SDL PDUs for each certification cycle (= every 3 years).
  • You can claim 1 Cat 2-SDL PDU for each hour of listening to podcasts on topics that relate to the Knowledge Areas in the PMBOK Guide.
  • If a podcast is not 60 minutes in duration (usually the case on The pm411.org Project Management Podcast), then you have to listen to several podcasts that discuss the same topic and add them up. For instance: 2 x 30 minutes on risk management = 1 Cat 2-SDL PDU.

Please note that every PMP is subject to audit during the PDU submission process and that you may have to show in exactly what way you have earned all of your PDUs. The PMI reserves the right to reject some or all of the PDUs that you submit.

My suggestion:

  • Subscribe to the The pm411.org Project Management Podcast – it’s completely free!
  • Claim a total of 15 Category 2-SDL PDUs.
  • Recommend us to your colleagues so that they can earn PDUs while learning project management best practices.

Here are the actual steps in order to claim the PDUs at PMI:

  • Go to https://www.pmi.org/CCRS/
  • Log in
  • Click on “Report PDUs” (Underneath the bold title “PDU Activity as of…”
  • Select “Category 2 SDL…” and click on Continue
  • Input the following information:

Start earning PDUs today by having the pm411.org Project Management Podcast delivered by email for free! – Your email address and personal information are confidential and will never be sold or rented.

7 Responses to “Earn Free PDUs!”

  1. rickfanning
    November 26, 2009 at 11:29 pm

    What is the address for PM411 that I use to enter on the PDU request form thru PMI?

    Thanks.

    #136
  2. sz6d4c
    February 10, 2010 at 8:42 am

    Hello,
    I recently joined pm411.org and listened to a podcast awarded with 1 PDU. I succesfully reported it in PMI.

    But when asking in PMI portal for another PDU (a different podcast) I received a ‘duplicate entry’ message. I used the same information for both podcasts (info in the yellow chart).

    Can you please tell me how can I submit more PDU’s without getting this message ?

    Thanks,
    Javier.

    #156
  3. Ron Holohan, MBA PMP
    February 10, 2010 at 12:36 pm

    Hi Javier,

    First off, thanks for listening to The pm411.org Project Management Podcast. Secondly, please be sure to note, as described above, that you can only claim 1 PDU for every 1 hour of Cat 2SDL: Self-Directed Learning. Most of my podcast episodes are less than 1 hour in duration, so the yellow chart above describes how to submit for the total 15 PDUs based on listening to multiple episodes that in total equal 15 hours. However, not to worry! You should be able to change the “Program Title:” description on your next submittal to refer to whichever additional episodes you listened to. For instance, if you wanted to claim 1 PDU for listening to episode 004 and episode 052 – which add up to 60 minutes and 23 seconds (just over 1 hour), you could enter something like “Podcast Episode 004 – WBS and Episode 052 – RACI” as the program title. You can check the length of each episode either in iTunes or under the title of each podcast on the pm411.org site.

    Please be aware that PMI does reserve the right to audit any claimed PDUs, so please only claim PDUs for those podcasts you have actually listened to.

    Let me know if this doesn’t answer your question or work for you, Javier! And thanks for listening!

    Ron

    #158

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