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Jamal Searles Project Manager| Sun River Service Company Wilson, Nc, United States
I have recently been promoted to the position of project manager. As I step into the role and learn more about project management, it appears that my role should be listed as Portfolio Manager or Organizational Project Management. One of the requirements of the PMP exam is that no 2 projects can overlap. I am currently overseeing about 6 projects ranging from a large 70'x70' building construction, implementing new software technologies, revamping parts room and inventory control to minor contract repairs of process equipment working with contractors. Where do I begin as I have come into a couple of these about half way through the life cycle of the projects? Thanks for the advice...
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Stephanie Graham VP of Strategy| BankOnIT Oklahoma City, Ok, United States
Congratulations on the promotion!

I recently completed my PMP application. I run about 10-20 projects at a time (it gets hectic). All of my hours counted for the projects I put on the application, no matter when they ran. The only thing that the overlapping projects do not add in to count is the months of experience. Example, If I had 3 projects that ran from April 2015 to July of 2015, and each project took 100 hrs (don't quote me on the hours, i'm just tossing an example ;) ) the PMP app still counted 300 hours of my time, but it only counted 4 months of coverage total.

I hope this helps! It made more sense to me when I started inputting my experience in on the application and to see how it counted everything.
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Sep 01, 2016 11:47 AM
Jamal Searles
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This helps immensely. Thanks for the response. CAPM is the target right now.
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Jamal Searles Project Manager| Sun River Service Company Wilson, Nc, United States
Sep 01, 2016 11:34 AM
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Congratulations on the promotion!

I recently completed my PMP application. I run about 10-20 projects at a time (it gets hectic). All of my hours counted for the projects I put on the application, no matter when they ran. The only thing that the overlapping projects do not add in to count is the months of experience. Example, If I had 3 projects that ran from April 2015 to July of 2015, and each project took 100 hrs (don't quote me on the hours, i'm just tossing an example ;) ) the PMP app still counted 300 hours of my time, but it only counted 4 months of coverage total.

I hope this helps! It made more sense to me when I started inputting my experience in on the application and to see how it counted everything.
This helps immensely. Thanks for the response. CAPM is the target right now.
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