by Brian Crawford | Mar 16, 2011 | PMI, Project Management
Important note: As of the fall of 2015, PMI has changed the requirements for the maximum and minimum number of PDUs that may be earned in the various PDU categories. For information about these changes, please check out this post. In the February issue of PMI Today...
by Brian Crawford | Mar 14, 2011 | PMI, PMP Certification, Project Management
All project managers certified as Project Management Professionals (PMPs) by the Project Management Institute (PMI) are required to earn a total of sixty Professional Development Units (PDUs) every three calendar years. I might be speaking for myself, but I’m...
by Brian Crawford | Feb 28, 2011 | International Business, Language and Culture, Project Management
Recently I’ve become the project manager of an international project with participants spread throughout six different countries on three separate continents: North America, Europe and Asia. We have been meeting to discuss a variety of different requirements...
by Brian Crawford | Jul 13, 2010 | PMI, PMP Certification, Project Management
As a part of every issue of PMI Today, the Project Management Institute’s monthly newsletter published as a supplement to PM Network magazine, PMI features a small section called PMI Fact File which features statistics about the number of PMI members, new...
by Brian Crawford | May 16, 2010 | PMI, PMP Certification, Project Management
If you’re going to be managing projects, it certainly helps to know what they are! As per PMI’s Project Management Body of Knowledge, a project has the following dimensions: A project is an endeavor undertaken to create a unique product, service or result....
by Brian Crawford | Apr 14, 2010 | ITIL, Project Management
While working in the Project Portfolio Office of a bank in Ireland I became ITIL Foundation in IT Service Management certified. The Foundation Level of ITIL is the first stage in learning the key concepts, structure, terminology and processes of ITIL. ITIL stands for...
