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Question: Where can I Publish my Project Management Articles to earn PDUs?
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In our last newsletter we learned that you can earn PDUs for every hour that you spend writing project management related articles (up to a max of 45 PDUs). I am sure that as a proactive PM you immediately took action and wrote your first article right there and then. So now that you have your first article completed you need to publish it. But where?
From my past discussions with PMI I have learned that PMI does not have a list of specific publication channels where you must publish. The important factors to remember is that the article must discuss project management topics and is published where other project managers are likely to find it.
Here are some suggestions:
- Start your own blog at www.wordpress.org. Having your own blog gives you credibility as a PM and it will also encourage you to write more and earn more PDUs.
- Become a guest blogger. If you are not ready to start your own blog, simply contact another blogger and ask her/him if they might be interested in publishing your article on their website as a guest blogger.
- Send your article to your local PMI chapter for inclusion in their newsletter
- Publish it on a PM Community website like www.gantthead.com or www.theicpm.com. Very soon we will offer our own community website for you to use.
- Send it to the publishers of online PM newsletter and allow them to include it in their next publication
- Create an account at an article directory website like www.ezinearticles.com and publish the article here.
Also remember to always keep records of your articles, so that you can show to PMI during an audit that you truly deserve to have earned these PDUs:
- Keep a copy of your article
- Make a print screen of the website where your article was published
- Keep a copy of the magazine where your article was printed
Until next time,
Cornelius Fichtner, PMP
President, OSP International LLC
The Project Management PrepCast(TM) - http://www.project-management-prepcast.com
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Provider: Projectinsight
What: Advanced PM Webinar - Managing Stakeholder Expectations
When: January 25, 2012 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM PST
Where: Webinar
Description:
What does it really mean to manage expectations? Stakeholders are demanding people and many times don't always have the same objectives. How do you identify their needs and build communication mechanisms within project insight for increased communication? In this webinar we will identify ways for you to identify the expectations of each stakeholder and provide tools for you to manage differing expectations between stakeholders.
Objectives:
- Identify key stakeholders
- Develop a power and interest matrix to analyze stakeholders
- Use techniques to set expectations with stakeholders
- Respond to stakeholders during project execution
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Component:eSeminars World Courses
What: Agile Project Management
When: 8 March 2012 - 22 March 2012
Cost:
Price:$875.00
Member Price:$725.00
Student Member Price:$725.00
PDUs: 14
Description:
This course will cover:
- What is Agile?
- Agile Project Team
- Agile Planning
- Agile Monitoring & Controlling
- Agile Quality Assurance
- Agile Project Leadership
- How to be Successful with Agile
This course will help you:
- Describe agile principles and practices and apply them in your projects
- Apply Agile methods to fast changing requirements and priorities
- Recognize ways to increase team performance through better communication and close involvement of customers
- Recognize the key success criteria for implementing Agile
- Use Agile estimating techniques to estimate your project work more accurately
- Identify and prevent common pitfalls organizations run into when adopting Agile practices
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Business Driven Project Portfolio Management Workshop
Conquering the Top 10 Risks that Threaten PPM Success
and Taming Organizational Change with Portfolio Management
Be one of the project managers attending the Business Driven Project Portfolio Management Workshop (Disclosure: Compensated Affiliate) in Singapore, Perth, Melbourne and Sydney this February 2012. Led by Mark Price Perry and Terry Doerscher, noted PPM subject matter experts, this session is geared towards providing highly interactive, hands-on learning and collaboration amongst attendees and the workshop leaders.
Business Driven Project Portfolio Management Workshop will guide you through a comprehensive approach to implementing and managing PPM and the organizational change it enables from initiation to deployment and value delivery.
The workshop is designed to incorporate participatory learning with several team exercises aimed at reinforcing the presentation topics through peer discussions. It is organized into four modules:
- Business Driven Project Portfolio Management
- Conquering the top 10 risks that threaten success
- Getting started with PPM, advancing PPM, sustaining value with PPM
- Taming Change with Portfolio Management
- Techniques to extend PPM across the complete lifecycle of change
- Staying aligned in the highly dynamic environments of modern, technology-driven organization.
There's more! As participant, you will also receive a FREE copy of Mark Perry's book: Business Driven Project Portfolio Management and Terry Doerscher's book: Taming Change with Portfolio Management that became the basis of this workshop. Lastly, you will receive an all-access pass to gantthead.com.
For attending this highly interactive workshop, you will earn 5 PDUs.
So reserve your seat today and the year 2012 may be a lot more successful for you! For more information, click here!
Full Disclosure: Business Driven Project Portfolio Management Workshop is an affiliate product. If you click and enroll in this course, we will earn a commission.
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PDU Tip: Significance Of PDUs Earning Requirement
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Once you are Project Management Professional, (PMP®) certified, then you are required to earn 60 Professional Development Units (PDUs) every 3 years to keep your certification alive. Professional Development Units (PDUs) are offered by PMI through its Registered Education Provider program, which can be applied by the project management trainers to get membership. Even though it has its advantages but it is very costly.
Your credential will come to an end, if you do not get the necessary amount of PDUs within the phase of three years. In such a situation, your PMI credential will be postponed.
Read the complete PDU Tip here
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