Eric RichardsonInstallation Manager and Customer Care Manager| BearcomWv, United States
This is an exciting time for me. I am beginning my journey towards becoming a legit project manager. I have been managing projects for years through my military experience and now through my current position.
However, If I am reading correctly, I need to track my hours as part of the certification process. So, is there a form/process that I need to follow so my qualifying hours will be accepted? Saving Changes...
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Dinah YoungProject Manager / Software Asset Manager| Prince William CountySpringfield, Va, United States
Go to the PMI website. It will tell you the number of hours you need in training and work experience.
Go ahead and start the application process. You can save it and add to it as you get the necessary information. The application will have sections for you to add you hours in. So say you have project X. You add that as a project on your application. You add the start date and end date of the project and a little text about it. Then the page will come up asking how many hours were in the Initiating stage, of the Planning Stage, etc.
And if you know a PMP, I would ask them to review your application or they may be able to share their application so you can see the required level of detail, etc.
Just remember you application stays active for awhile (don't remember how long exactly), so you can start and stop and start and stop until you feel it is complete. And if it is not complete, the application will tell you so.
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Dinah YoungProject Manager / Software Asset Manager| Prince William CountySpringfield, Va, United States
And stick with this site. There are a lot of great resources and mentors here. And we are all here to help each other. Saving Changes...
John DuncanRetired| RetiredLebanon, Tn, United States
Regardless of how thoroughly you document your hours, there is always the chance for a random audit. In that case, your named contact will be the next layer for acceptance. It will be a good idea to have your named contact review and agree (ahead of time) to what you submit. So if they are questioned about it later, nothing on there will be a surprise. Saving Changes...
If you do a Google search for "PMP Application Assistant", you'll find a site which offers a pretty comprehensive MS Excel workbook you can use to track your education & experience hours in a format which lends itself to both your use and PMI's if your PMP application gets audited.
Just remember that experience hours can only be claimed over the past eight years so hopefully you have enough accumulated over that time period.
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Dinah YoungProject Manager / Software Asset Manager| Prince William CountySpringfield, Va, United States
Kiron,
Just the other day I was commenting that I thought there was a limit to how far back you could go with your experience hours. I could not remember the number of years. Thanks for the information of 8 years back Saving Changes...
Eric RichardsonInstallation Manager and Customer Care Manager| BearcomWv, United States
Holy smoke y'all! I didn't expect these answers so fast! I really like the idea of mentors and appreciate all the advice. It is unfortunate that I can only use the hours for the past 8 years. I had tons of projects in the military, but I will use what I can and build on that! Thanks so much! Saving Changes...
John DuncanRetired| RetiredLebanon, Tn, United States
One difficulty I ran into when assembling my list of hours, was I didn't have a detailed record of specific hours spent daily/weekly on any given project. What I did have though, was a good sense of what percent of my time I spent on any given project over its lifecycle. So while in a dedicated project manager role, I knew that I spent 25% of my time on Project XYZ from January to October, for example. 50% of my time on Project ABC from November to March. Etc. Prior status reports and other records helped with establishing start and end dates. Then I was able to work out the hours that way, and my manager was in agreement with my allocation of hours.
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Apr 12, 2018 1:05 PM
Dinah Young
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It is often a best guess to the number of hours when you routinely work multiple projects. I tried to go back through status reports and project documentation to get a feel. In the end I had to estimate.
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Dinah YoungProject Manager / Software Asset Manager| Prince William CountySpringfield, Va, United States
Apr 12, 2018 1:02 PM
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One difficulty I ran into when assembling my list of hours, was I didn't have a detailed record of specific hours spent daily/weekly on any given project. What I did have though, was a good sense of what percent of my time I spent on any given project over its lifecycle. So while in a dedicated project manager role, I knew that I spent 25% of my time on Project XYZ from January to October, for example. 50% of my time on Project ABC from November to March. Etc. Prior status reports and other records helped with establishing start and end dates. Then I was able to work out the hours that way, and my manager was in agreement with my allocation of hours.
It is often a best guess to the number of hours when you routinely work multiple projects. I tried to go back through status reports and project documentation to get a feel. In the end I had to estimate. Saving Changes...
Eric RichardsonInstallation Manager and Customer Care Manager| BearcomWv, United States
I believe I will be estimating as well. I have multiple projects I am managing so I will need to work those hours out. Saving Changes...
