Pittsburgh PMI

What is a PDU?

PDU stands for Professional Development Unit, which is used to quantify activities required to maintain your PMI credential (I.e. PMP, CAPM, etc.).  More information can be obtained at http://www.pmi.org/CareerDevelopment/Pages/MaintainYourCredential.aspx.

How do I self-report meeting PDUs?

PDUs can be claimed for meeting events offered by the PMI Pittsburgh chapter, including chapter meetings and Local Interest Group (LIG) meetings.   After the event, the event sponsor will record the event for the registered PMPs with PMI and will create a PDU form which contains the information needed to report your PDU(s). 

Use the following process to report PDU(s):

• Obtain PDU form on PMI Pittsburgh web site.  The PDU forms are located under the Monthly Meetings drop-down. 
• Go to www.PMI.org/CCRS
• Click on Login (upper right hand corner).  Enter your PMI Username and Password.
• On the left navigation click on “Report professional development units (PDUs)”
• Under PDU Category, click on the down arrow for the dropdown box and select “Cat 3: Registered Education Provider program/PMI Component Event)”
• Under Activity type, click on the down arrow for the dropdown box and select “Report a Component 1-2 PDU Event”
• Click the “Next” button at the bottom of the page
• Enter Component ID: C030
• Click “Search” button at the bottom of the page
• Enter the “Activity date completed” and “Activity title”.  These items can be found on the PDU Form.
• Click the “Next” button at the bottom of the page
• Enter “PDUs claimed”.  This is included on PDU Form
• Click the “Next” button at the bottom of the page
• Click the checkbox to confirm the accuracy of the claim and click “Submit” at the bottom of the page to submit your PDU(s).
• You should get 2 emails, one confirming your submission and one confirming approval. Please allow up to 24 hours for receipt of these emails.
  

How Do I Post My Document?

In order to post a document, you must be a registered user on the site.  Next, you must login.  Depending if you wish to post a Monthly Meeting, Financial Services, Healthcare, or IT document, select the appropriate option from the Monthly Meetings menu and go over to the PDU sub-menu.  Next, click the Submit File icon.

This is a three step process:

(1) Click Upload a file from your computer

(2) Navigate to the file on your hard drive and click the Upload button.

(3) Select the appropriate Category / Folder that the uploaded document is to be uploaded to

(ie Monthly Meeting, Financial Services, Healthcare, or IT)

What is the Naming Convention on the file I want to upload?

File names will have the following naming conventions:

(1) Start out with "PDU_Form_"

(2) 8 digit date YYYYMMDD  ie  20100822

(3) _Chapter or _FSLIG or _HCLIG or _ITLIG

depending on Monthly Meeting, Financial Services, Healthcare, or IT respectively.

Example:

PDU_Form_20100822_ITLIG.doc

• Northeast Ohio (Akron/Cleveland), http://www.pmineo.org
• Keystone Chapter (Harrisburg), http://www.pmi.org/chapters/keystone
• Central Ohio (Columbus), http://www.pmicentralohio.com
• Dayton/Miami-Valley Chapter, http://www.daytonpmi.org
• Erie PA Chapter, http://www.pmierie.org