Barbara Mauro and a few others have had questions about getting PDUs for articles and other documents published online. These questions have shown up on LinkedIn Project Management discussion groups and the #pmot (project managers on twitter) group.
This morning I spoke with a PMI representative, who confirmed that project management articles published online can be submitted for PMP Professional Development Units (PDUs). The same applies to templates and white papers.
If you happened to be audited, you would need to be able to verify where and when the item was published.
The guidelines talk about “scholarly articles”. It’s up to you to determine whether you would consider your submission “scholarly”. If PMI has any issues or questions with a particular PDU submission, they said they will contact you directly.
While not as definitive and clear as we might like, this does provide more guidance than we had before. Hope it’s helpful.
Alec
P.S. An excerpt from our conversation is below.
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“…It doesn’t matter if it is published online or in print. If it is a scholarly article you can submit it as category 2B.”
PMPs would claim credit for the category 2B option if he or she has authored or co-authored an article pertaining to project management in a non-refereed journal.
A non-refereed journal would be a journal in which scholarly articles have been written by specialists in a particular field. Unlike refereed journals, the described articles are not evaluated by a panel of experts before acceptance for publication.
Sole authors can claim 15 PDUs per article
Co-authors would claims 10 PDUs per article
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Originally posted 2009-04-17 12:30:03.
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Alec,
Now I’m curious if a commented blog post could be considered by PMI as a refereed or peer-reviewed article. It certainly comes close to meeting the criteria.
It’s written by a specialist in a particular field and evaluated by a panel of experts before acceptance for publication.
That being said, since the criteria states the publication has to be evaluated before acceptance, comments on a blog would certainly qualify.
Thank you for the excellent post. It made me think.
Regards,
Derek
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Derek,
We’re working on blog posts, too! The discussion started on #PMOT on Twitter and we’re talking with PMI about how to claim PDUs for blogs. More soon…watch #PMOT! And thanks Alec for this post!
-dina
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Hi Dina, good addition and nice plug for #PMOT. For anyone interested in #PMOT, I’ll have a post describing what it is and how to benefit from it up sometime next week.
Derek, glad you got something out of the post. Always appreciate your feedback.
Alec
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Good info. I’m also interested in knowing whether blog posts qualify for PDUs.
Thanks.
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