Fangfei ChenProgram Manager| Case Western Reserve UniversityAvon, Oh, United States
Hello PMI community, it is very likely someone's asked this before, I'd really appreciate your guidance and wisdom again.
I am a program manager in higher education. On top of a two-semester experience for medical professionals, I also oversee research projects as well as certification & training experiences.
My question to you is do these qualify for the experiences that PMP required? They are all temporary endeavor with beginning & end dates, each has clear end goals and outputs.
Senior Projects Manager | Field & Marten AssociatesNew Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
Fangfei
As long as you sued to managed projects and do project management activites day to day from communication, budgeting, scheduling, monitoring, controlling and so on then you certainyl do qualify. The formal role you are holding is not relevant to the application but what you actually do is.
I'd recommend downloading the PMP exam content outline from PMI's website and review the tasks listed. If you feel you have performed the majority of these in the projects you would claim on an application form, you should be fine.
If you did planning, provided scheduling, managed stakeholders, and formally managed the projects then it absolutely does count. I came from marketing and sales, as well as working in the publishing world and was shocked to learn that I had been using project management principles for years.I'd used Gantt charts, KanBan, Scrum, and Agile without ever realizing they were part of this bigger world of project management. As you go through the education hours required you will likely come across many familiar terms that you thought were Higher education terms but are actually project management terms.
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