36 Months?

Submitted by Bbolo84 on Sun, 01/08/2012 - 02:42

 Hello


I was wondering if anyone could help me clarify something in regards to the experience section of the application. It requires 4500 hours, which I meet, but it also states 36 months of experience. My question is this: I have the 4500 hours, but my months only add up to 29.  Do I have to add 7 more months of projects to meet the requirements?


 


Thanks!


 

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adishail

Wed, 01/18/2012 - 04:37

Yes, you need to have 4500 hours plus 36 months of non-overlapping experience (with bachelors degree). You need to satisfy both requirements.


Technically, 4500 hours can be obtained in 29 months. If you worked 40 hours a week for 52 weeks in a year, you would get the 4500 hours in 26 months. Including the days-off and assuming that you work as PM for 100% of the time, you will be able to get your 4500 hours in 29 months.


However, PMI wants you to have the 4500 hours and 36 months.


 

scot.mcpherson

Wed, 01/18/2012 - 16:05

Additionally, you do not have to be a project manager during that whole time. You simply need to participate on projects, you could be a team leader on a project or a designer, or any other role that diretly involves you in direct participation with the project. Obviously the more the leadership and management role the better when audited, but most people who have worked through several projects over the time frame can find some way to legitimately justify their time as counting towards PMP requirements.

saket_pmp

Sat, 04/28/2012 - 17:47

Some people say that for PMP you need to have project managment experience....and its wrong. Scott is correct, PMI expects you that you should have worked in projects and handle it some way or the other.


Say, in a project A, you just worked on execution. On a project B you worked on initation and planning. On a project C you worked on M&C and Closing.....These are all valid cases.


Just make sure, you show some time to PMI in each process group. You may say that you did not work in initiation (as an example), but if you look back closely, you will find you did work on it. Kick off meeting, discussion on design, stakeholders introduction, some documentation approval etc are all part of project initiation.


You know what, in reality everyone participates in all project process group, but we do not know it. Every deliverables can be seen like a project.


Please post more questions if you have any confusion on this. If I get a chance, I will try to answer it.


All the best for PMP. :)


 


 

dewdrop123 (not verified)

Wed, 07/25/2012 - 15:16

when audited, but most people who have worked through several projects over the time frame can find some way to legitimately justify their time as counting towards PMP requirements.

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gjpmp

Sat, 05/04/2013 - 03:17

I think you can

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projectation

Tue, 09/25/2012 - 10:46

 While it is correct that you must have 3 years AND at least 4500 hours within those 3 years, the section that causes the most confusion is the "non-overlapping" experience.  Your projects CAN overlap, but you can only treat ONE of those overlapping sections for your unique project experience.  What it boils down to is that you treat the start of those series of projects and the end of the series like ONE project when you calculate your hours.

Please see my reference below that includes a video tutorial and spreadsheet to automatically calculate your project hours:

http://www.projectation.com/pmp-hours-spreadsheet/

Good luck!

-Don Kim
projectation.com

 

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Fri, 09/21/2012 - 22:12

You should tell us that what type of job you are going to apply and what is your current experience.  I worked in a new cars compnay and I was responsible for the SEO of those cars comapny, they requried me to have atelast 3 or 4 years automotive industry work experience.

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AndyKaufmanPMP

Wed, 02/27/2013 - 01:05

PMI is looking for two things regarding work experience on the application: a number of unique months and a total number of hours of leading and directing. The required quantity for each depends on whether someone has a Bachelor's degree or equivalent. 

Let's assume someone has a Bachelor's degree. For the PMP application, they need to demonstrate at least 36 unique months of working on projects and a total of at least 4,500 hours of leading and directing.

Let's say Project A went from January - October 2012, for a total of 1,200 hours. Project B went from July - December 2012 for a total of 800 hours. How does this get reported on an application?

Project A would count as 10 months toward the 36 unique months. The months of July-October cannot be double-counted so Project B does not get credit for those months.

However, the total hours for those two projects do count. So the totals for those two projects on the application are 12 unique months and 2,000 hours. The applicant can count the overlapping hours but not the months.

NOTE: I've heard that PMI assumes a 40 hour week so someone could not be full-time on Project A during August and full-time on Project B at the same time. 

 

Andy Kaufman

http://www.i-leadonline.com/GetYourPMP.asp

http://www.PeopleAndProjectsPodcast.com

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