A quick health update from me to all my listeners. The diagnosis is BPPV and I'm on the road to improvement. However, I'm still not able to publish regular, weekly episodes.
This episode is sponsored by The PDU Podcast:
If you are a certified PMP then you know what the acronym PDU stands for. It stands for Professional Development Units. Every PMP needs to earn 60 of these PDUs every 3 years in order keep his or her certification. The idea behind having to earn these PDUs is a simple one. PMI wants every PMP to continuously learn. Just like doctors or pilots who have to take classes regularly and practice new skills in order to keep their license, PMI wants us PMPs to learn new project management skills so that we can be the best project managers possible.
The rules describing which activities count towards PDUs and how you have to report and claim them is documented in the “PDU Category Structure and Policies” document. In March 2011 PMI released a new version of these rules that is a lot less complex than the old one. So this has been out for about 10 months now, however, I still receive a lot of emails from confused PMPs who have questions about it. So I went ahead and sat down with Rory McCorkle from PMI to discuss the new structure and get clear descriptions and explanations directly from the horses mouth.
Here are some topics that Rory will discuss in the interview
- Why were the PDU policies changed?
- We’ll define the rule that “One hour of effort is equal to one PDU”
- We’ll discuss the PDU Divisions and Categories
- We give examples of PDU earning activities
- And lot’s more.
I've been fighting an inner-ear infection since December. I won't be able to publish PM Podcast episodes for the coming 2 weeks until the infection has run its course.
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This episode is sponsored by The PDU Podcast:
This is another interview recorded at the PMI North American Congress in Dallas Fort Worth. My guest is Rory McCorkle who is the PMI Product Manager - Credentials (and he will tell you himself at the start of the interview what exactly that means). The reason why I’m talking to him is bring you the latest information about the new PMI-ACP certification - that is to say the PMI Agile Certified Practitioner Exam.
Here are some topics that Rory will discuss in the interview
- When did the PMI-ACP certification get started?
- How was PMI-ACP developed?
- What value does the PMI Agile Certified Practitioner certification have for us as Agile project managers as well as our employers?
- What are the pre-requisites that you have to fulfill before you can take PMI-ACP exam?
- And lot’s more.
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- Episode 202: How does the PMO mix with PPM, Governance, Lessons Learned and Business Driven Setup?
- Episode 201: Impressions from the 2011 PMI Global Congress
- Episode 200 Part 1: The Number One Challenge in Project Management Today
- Episode 200 Part 2: The Number One Challenge in Project Management Today
- Episode 200 Part 3: The Number One Challenge in Project Management Today
- Episode 200 Part 4: The Number One Challenge in Project Management Today
- Episode 199: How to Implement Project Portfolio Management
- Episode 198: How to Deliver Exceptional Project Results
- Episode 197: How to Avoid Project Portfolio Failure - Part 2
- Episode 197: How to Avoid Project Portfolio Failure - Part 1
- Episode 196: The State of Project Management Today and The International PM Day
- Episode 195 (Video): Criteria for Selecting Agile over Waterfall... Or Not.
- Episode 195 (Audio): Criteria for Selecting Agile over Waterfall... Or Not.
- Episode 194: Defining and Measuring Project Success
- Episode 193: The GAPPS Standard For Project Sponsors
- Episode 192: PM Leadership Tools: Be The Project Champion (Project Leadership Series)
- Episode 191: PM Leadership Tools: Adaptive Project Leadership (Project Leadership Series)
- Episode 191: Adaptive Project Leadership White Paper and Worksheet
- Episode 190: Every Project is a Social Network
- Episode 189: Tips, Tricks & Lessons Learned for Social Media in Project Management
- Episode 188: Enterprise 2.0 Tools for Project Managers
- Episode 187: Project Management Concepts for Enterprise 2.0
- Episode 187: Project Management Concepts for Enterprise 2.0 - PDF Presentation
- Episode 186 (Video): The Agile Manifesto for Project Managers
- Episode 186 (Audio): The Agile Manifesto for Project Managers
- Episode 185 How to Develop Your Project Team’s Leadership Skills (Project Leadership Series)
- Episode 184: How to Develop Your Leadership Skills (Project Leadership Series)
- Episode 183: Category C PDU Logfile
- Episode 183: Earn 30 Free PDUs
- Episode 182 Premium: Improving Your Virtual Project Meetings - One Tweet at a Time
- Episode 181: Improving Your Project Presentations - One Tweet at a Time
- Episode 180 Premium: Leadership & Project Initiation (Project Leadership Series)
- Episode 179: Leadership Principles for Project Success (Project Leadership Series)
- Episode 178 Premium: The Cure for the Common Project: Expectation Management (Project Leadership Series)
- Episode 177: PM Podcast Leadership Series: The Cure For The Common Project
- Episode 176: One More Question...
- Special with Margaret Meloni: Working with Jerks conference call (audio)
- Special with Margaret Meloni: What Agreements are YOU making? (PDF)
- Episode 175 Premium: The Pulse of Project Management - PM Trends
- Episode 174: The Pulse of Project Management
- Episode 173 Premium: The 7 Stages of Team Development. Wait... did you say SEVEN??!!
- Episode 172: The Project Whisperer
- Episode 171 Premium: The Formalization of Risk Management
- Episode 170: 30 Years of Program Management
- Episode 169 Premium: Ethics in Project Management
- Episode 168: The Project Management Answer Book
- Episode 167: We Are Giving Away 20 Project Management Books
- Episode 166 Premium: Career Networking with a Purpose
- Episode 165: 30 Ideas For A Successful Job Search
- Episode 164 Premium: Project Management Predictions for 2011 and Beyond (Part 2)
- Episode 164: Project Management Predictions for 2011 and Beyond (Part 1)
- Episode 163: Book Review: "Lean Project Management" and "Silos, Politics and Turf Wars"
- Episode 162 Premium: How Social Media Can Work on Your Projects
- Episode 162: Social Media for Project Managers
- Episode 161: Interview with Gregory Balestrero and Mark Langley (Part 2)
- Episode 161: Interview with Gregory Balestrero and Mark Langley (Part 1)
- Episode 160: Job Search Secrets for Project Managers
- Episode 158 Premium: Project Managers are Agents for Economic Growth!
- Episode 159: The International Project Management Day
- Episode 159: The Project Manager Blues Video
- Episode 158: Customize And Contextualize Your Project Communications
- Episode 157: Effective Meetings & Effective Presentations for Project Managers
- PMI North American Congress Day 2 - "No Comment" Video Impressions
- PMI North American Congress Day 1 - "No Comment" Video Impressions
- Episode 156: Productively Lazy Project Communications
- Episode 155 Premium: The Auditors Are Gone! The Auditors Are Gone!
- Special: Guerilla PM - Self-Mastery with Doug DeCarlo Part 3
- Special: Guerilla PM - Self-Mastery with Doug DeCarlo Part 2
- Special: Guerilla PM - Self-Mastery with Doug DeCarlo Part 1
- Episode 155: The Auditors Are Coming! The Auditors Are Coming!
- Episode 154: Social Media for Project Managers
- Episode 153 Premium: 6 Criteria to Consider When Choosing a PPM Solution
- Episode 153: What mismanaging Small Projects Will Cost You
- Episode 152 PREMIUM: Does PMI follow the PMBOK Guide on their own Projects?
- Episode 152: Discussing The New CCRS With PMI
- Episode 151: Book Review: Death By Meeting & Why should Anyone be Led by You?
- Episode 150: Category C PDU Logfile
- Episode 150: Earn 15 Free PDUs (UPDATE: It's now 30 PDUs)
- Episode 149 Book Giveaway Extended to July 21, 2010
- Episode 149 Premium: How to implement project portfolio management
- Episode 149: Project Portfolio Management Explained
- Episode 148.4: Risk Management - Critical Success Factor for your Project - Part 4
- Episode 148.3: Risk Management - Critical Success Factor for your Project - Part 3
- Episode 148.2: Risk Management - Critical Success Factor for your Project - Part 2
- Episode 148.1: Risk Management - Critical Success Factor for your Project - Part 1
- Episode 147 Premium: Mentoring in Project Management
- Episode 147: How to Become a Project Manager
- Episode 146: Projects, Programs, Portfolios & Career Advice
- Episode 145: PMI Atlanta's Professional Development Day
- Request for Help with Episode 017
- Episode 145: Impressions from the PMI Atlanta Professional Development Day
- Episode 144 Premium: Scope vs. Work
- Episode 144: aPro: asapm Performance Rated Organization
- Episode 143: Laryngitis and other Laws of Project Management
- Episode 142 Premium: How to Apply PM Simplicity on Your Projects
- Video Introduction to The PDU Podcast (High Resolution)
- Episode 142: PM Simplicity
- Episode 141: Tales from the Dark Side of Project Management
- The PDU Podcast - www.pducast.com
- Episode 140 Premium: Managing Complexity on Projects
- Episode 140: Successfully manage complex projects with simplicity, clarity and focus
- Special: PM War Stories - Creating a PMO: How to Overcome Risks in Building a PMO that Lasts
- Episode 139 Premium: PMO Lessons Learned
- Episode 139: Setting up and Managing a PMO
- Episode 138: Delivering SharePoint Success: Mentoring Workshop
- Episode 137 Premium: The Hero in us all - The moral of the story
- Episode 137: Right-Brain Project Management
- Episode 136: Boost Your Project Management Soft Skills
- Episode 135@#!!%!!: The PM PrepCast Bloopers Video
- Episode 135@#!!%!!: The 2009 Bloopers Episode
- Episode 135: How to Study for the PMP Exam and Pass
- Episode 134 Premium: Common Project Communication Problems and what to do about them.
- Episode 134: The Top 9 Reasons Why Projects Fail
- Episode 133: Product Review of www.mywbscoach.com
- Episode 132 PREMIUM: Best Practices in Structuring your WBS
- Episode 132: A WBS Can Make Your Project A Success
- Episode 131 PREMIUM: PMO Assessment Tools and Techniques
- Episode 131: PMO Assessments. A Waste of Time?
- Episode 130: Gartner's Audrey Apfel on PMO, PPM and Governance
- Episode 129: PPM Solutions Overview
- Episode 128 PREMIUM: How PPM Tools Increase Project Success
- New: Yearly Premium Subscription - Get 2 Months Free
- Episode 128: PPM and Agile don't mix... right?
- Episode 127: Project Portfolio Management from PMI's Point of View
- Episode 126 Premium: The 4-Week PMO
- Episode 126: Project Management In Ethiopia
- Episode 125 PREMIUM: How to Implement Green on your Projects
- Episode 125: The Green Wave...how ALL projects need to be green
- Episode 124 Premium: Virtual PMO Roundtable
- Episode 124: PMO Roundtable
- Episode 123 Premium: How to be Lazy 70% of Your Project Time
- Episode 123: The Lazy Project Manager
- Episode 122 Premium: Establishing a PMO Architecture
- Episode 122: Business Driven PMO Setup
- Episode 121 PREMIUM: Project Management 2.0 and Social Media
- Episode 121: Everything a Project Manager should know about Social Media
- Episode 120: Sustainability... Why Bother?!
- Episode 119: SharePoint for Project Management
- Episode 118 PREMIUM: The Cultural Mirror
- Episode 118: Cultural Awareness and Cultural Intelligence
- Special: German PM Podcast #3: DHL Air Hub Leipzig
- Episode 117 Premium: The Value of the PMO
- Episode 116 Premium: PMO 1.0, PMO 2.0 and PMO 3.0
- Episode 116: The PMO 2.0 Survey Report
- Special: Manager Tools - Horstman's Law of Project Management Part 4 of 4
- Episode 115 Premium: The Fine Art Of Failing... And Living To Tell About It
- Episode 115: Leadership Challenges of Complex Projects
- Episode 114: Congratulations You're Out of Work (Part 2)
- Episode 114 Premium: A Conversation with Margaret Meloni on Managing Being Laid Off
- Episode 114: Congratulations You're Out of Work
- Special: Manager Tools - Horstman's Law of Project Management Part 3 of 4
- Episode 113 Premium: Revisiting "Getting It Done"
- Special: Manager Tools - Horstman's Law of Project Management Part 2 of 4
- Episode 113: Dealing with Layoffs and other Team Transitions
- Special: Manager Tools - Horstman's Law of Project Management Part 1 of 4
- Episode 112 Premium: Kanban - A Case Study
- Episode 112: Kanban - An Introduction
- Episode 111 + 11/11th: The 2008 Bloopers Episode
- Episode 111 Premium: There is no PMI Project Management Methodology
- Episode 111: PMO Summit 2008
- Episode 110 Overtime: Review of the PMO Summit 2008
- Episode 110: The Advantage of Leadership
- Episode 109: The Value of Project Management
- Episode 108 Overtime: How to Avoid Robot Project Management
- Episode 108: How Peer Reviews will Keep You Honest and Your Project on Track
- Episode 107 Halloween Overtime: The Creepy Scope Creep
- Episode 107: The PMI's Virtual Communities Project (Part 2)
- Episode 107: The PMI's Virtual Communities Project (Part 1)
- Episode 106 Overtime: Dealing with Jerks as The Project Leader
- Episode 106: How to Control Yourself when Working with Jerks
- Episode 106 will be a few days late...
- Episode 105 Overtime: Web Meeting and Web Conferencing Services
- Episode 105: Using Teleconferencing as an Effective PM Tool
- Episode 104 Overtime: How Projects fit into an Organization
- Episode 104: The Role of your Boss in Project Management
- Episode 103 Overtime: Learning from Problems on other People's Projects
- Episode 103: Improving Project Team Performance (And Their Morale, Too...)
- Episode 102 Overtime: An Overview over 10 PM Methodologies
- Episode 102: Five Steps to Implement a Project Management Methodology
- Episode 101 Overtime: Implementing a PM Methodology Tool
- Episode 101: How to Manage a CMMI Implementation Project
- Episode 100: Alan Parsons - The Alan Parsons Project
- Episode 099 Overtime: Project Quality Reviews
- Episode 099: Measuring and Managing Project Quality
- Episode 098 Overtime: Project Leadership Tools
- Episode 098: The Strategic Project Leader
- Episode 097 Overtime: How to Manage the Gray Areas
- Special: PMPOD.DE Episode 4 - Project Blame Management
- Episode 097: Managing The Gray Areas
- Episode 096 Overtime: Team Management on Experimental Projects
- Episode 096: Improving Outcomes on Experimental Projects
- Episode 095 Overtime: Margaret Meloni - More on your Professional Brand
- Episode 095: Your Professional Brand, Guard it With Your Life!
- Episode 094 Overtime: Hans Jonasson on the Enterprise Analysis
- Episode 094: Determining Project Requirements
- Episode 093: Lean Six Sigma Overview
- Episode 092: Ten Things you can Learn about Project Management from Britney Spears
- Episode 091 Overtime: Brian Irwin on DTAB
- Episode 091: Managing Politics and Conflict in Projects
- Episode 090: Project Management - Your first step to becoming the CEO
- Episode 089: Integrated Process and Project Management Organization
- Episode 088: Getting Things Done - Get your To-Do-List under Control
- Episode 087: A PM Conversation with Mike Graupner, PMP
- Episode 086: Four Hotel & Casino Projects
- Episode 085: A PM Conversation with Ron Holohan, PMP
- Special: PM411.ORG Podcast on PM Web Resources
- Episode 084+5%: Out Takes
- Episode 084: A Small, Troubled Project and What to do About it
- Episode 083: A PM Conversation with Thomas Cutting, PMP
- Episode 082: Monkey Management for Project Teams
- Episode 081: The PMO - A Business Solution
- Episode 080: Ron Holohan on studying for and passing the PMP Exam
- Episode 079: A Project Management / Auditing Conversation with Joy Gumz, PMP
- Episode 078: The Fiddler on the Project
- Episode 077: A PM Conversation with Randy Magdaluyo
- Episode 076: A PM Conversation with Cindy Sabin, PMP
- Special: The PM411.ORG Interview with Cornelius Fichtner, PMP
- Episode 075: Project Monitoring
- Episode 074: A PM Conversation with Shawn Futterer, PMP
- Special: PM411.ORG Podcast on Engaging China
- Episode 073: Managing a large, international project
- Episode 072: Authority
- Episode 071: Effective Virtual Management
- Episode 070: Everyday, Real Life Project Management
- No Episode This Week...
- Special: The PMO Podcast Episode 100
- Episode 069: Six Sigma... at a Bank?
- Episode 068: There is a Project Management Book Inside of You!
- Special: PM Lessons Learned Episode 4 on Scope Control
- Episode 067: PMI's PDU Secrets
- Episode 066: I hate my project - I hate my colleagues. Please motivate me!
- Episode 065: BS and MBA in Project Management
- Special: Controlling Chaos Pocast Episode 032 on Agile Estimating
- Episode 064: Avoid Communications Chaos - Use the Communications Plan as a Strategic Tool
- Episode 063: How do Risk Attitudes Affect your Project?
- Episode 062: How can I become a Project Manager?
- Episode 061: The Value of Quality
- Episode 060: Temporomandibular Joint Syndrome
- Episode 059: Overcoming Team Dysfunction
- Episode 058?: Out Takes
- Episode 058: Service Oriented Project Management
- Episode 057: Critical Chain Project Management
- Episode 056: The Boeing C17 Single Line Project
- Episode 055: What`s better: Competence or Knowledge Based PM Certifications?
- Episode 054: Gathering Requirements: Go Away Please!
- Episode 053: "Simple" Earned Value Project Management
- Episode 052: Project Management Methodology for Software Projects
- Episode 051: Staff Augmentation Through Off Shoring
- Episode 050: Project management basics typically overlooked
- Episode 049: Gathering Requirements on a Multi-Cultural Project
- Episode 048: Managing a PMO in Sri Lanka
- Episode 047: Scalable Project Management Methodologies Part 2
- Episode 046: Scalable Project Management Methodologies Part 1
- Episode 045: International Project Management - Japan
- Episode 044: Should you use Agile or Plan Driven Methodologies?
- Episode 043: Project Portfolio Management Tools Part 2
- Episode 042: Project Portfolio Management Tools Part 1
- Episode 041: Improve your PMO with The PMO SIG
- Episode 040: International PM Credentials
- Episode 039: Organizational Project Management Maturity Models (OPMMM)
- Episode 038: PRINCE2?, PMBOK?, PMP? and Controlling Chaos
- Episode 037: Project Politics? We don't have no Project Politics!
- Episode 036: Who you gonna call? The eBusiness SIG!
- Episode 035: Improve your Team's Skills with CAPM? - Interview with Frank Reynolds
- Episode 034: Interview with Kristine Hayes Munson on Getting It Done
- Episode 033: Methodologies and Templates
- Episode 032: Interview with Gerard Hill on Project Management Methodologies
- Episode 031: The PMI Consulting SIG
- Episode 030: Applying the Triple Constraints (All four of them)
- Episode 029: Conflict Resolution
- Episode 028: Interview with Frank Parth on PMOs
- Episode 027: No Earned Value? No Problem!
- Episode 026: Don't Use Email
- Episode 025: Introduction to Earned Value Management (EVM)
- Episode 024: PMO Trends
- Episode 023: Fast Track One
- Episode 022: Soft Skills III - Interview with Steve Kaye on Meetings
- Episode 021: Interview with Dale Brown on becoming a PMP
- Episode 020: Risk
- Episode 019: Soft Skills II - Interview with Moty Koppes
- Episode 018: Soft Skills
- Episode 017: Interview with Sabrina Mancini
- Episode 016: Harry Fisher on Groupware Solutions
- Episode 015: Status Reports
- Episode 014: Interview with Robert Perrine on ITIL
- Episode 013: More on Methodologies
- Episode 012: Goals
- Episode 011: PM Methodologies
- Episode 010: PM Training
- Episode 009?: International Project Management Day
- Episode 009: PM Techniques
- Episode 008: P? M? O?
- Episode 007: I Got A New Project
- Episode 006: Interview with Kristine Hayes Munson
- Episode 005: Podcast Reviews
- Episode 004: PMI 2005 Leadership Meeting Part 2
- Episode 003: Project Failure
- Episode 002: PMI 2005 Leadership Meeting Part 1
- Episode 001: Introduction











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