Every three years, PMI asks you for 60 PDUs. Each PDU stands for an hour of learning, teaching, or volunteering, so that’s a lot of hours you’re going to spend one way or another. It’s tempting to spend them on whatever is free and fast: webinars half-watched in a second tab. The certificate renews. Nothing […]
Author: Cemre Akkartal
How to Renew Your PMP Certification: 8 Steps (2026 Guide)
Renewing your PMP® takes 8 steps: know your cycle dates, understand the 60-PDU requirement, plan your earning mix, earn the PDUs, report them in PMI’s CCR system as you go, complete the renewal application, pay the renewal fee, and confirm your new three-year cycle. Earn early, report as you go, and the final steps take […]
Reference Class Forecasting: How to Estimate Without Cursing Yourself
The cure for optimism isn’t pessimism. It’s data from projects that already finished. The first three parts of this series diagnosed the disease. Whenever several estimates compete and the most extreme one wins, the winner is the one who was most wrong. Cursed bids, cursed business cases, cursed deadlines. This part is the treatment. Five […]
Elite Teams Over-Train Before the Mission: How to Prepare for the New PMP® Exam
PMP® candidates who took a practice test, scored 62%, and promised yourself you’d study harder next month: the elite version of you doesn’t study harder. They rehearse the failure before it happens, so that by exam day the hard question is one they’ve already seen. This is the fourth post in our Elite Teams series, […]
How to Stand Out as a Project Manager: Be the One Who Builds
PMI chose “Built to Move” as the theme of its 2026 Global Summit in Detroit. Its pitch for the event: “The world of work is changing faster than ever, and so is the project profession. Those who thrive choose agility over rigidity, moving when it matters most.” Read the theme literally and it points somewhere […]