News About PMP and PgMP Certification Cycle Alignment

This is how I understand:

If you have both PMP and PgMP certifications, usually they may have been obtained separately, and hence have two different renewal dates. In the past, you could sync up the dates and have the same renewal date for both. It looks like - effective April 1 - PMI is doing away with that approach... so each certification will have a different renewal date. (I don't see a material impact here).

However, PDUs obtained will continue to count toward the requirements for both certifications - dual impact. (I like that this is staying as-is, otherwise one has to earn twice the number of PDUs to keep both certifications in effect).