How do I write my experience for PMP?

How do I write my experience for PMP?

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Starting the discussion on How do I write my experience for PMP? , Let's discuss about PMP certification. If you are aspiring to be a PMP Certification holder and if you are confused after reading the PMP Certification eligibility criteria that how to apply for this, how to write my work experience for this, then probably this will going to help you. Project Management Institute (PMI) is the organization that offer project management related certifications has made it clear with the high level eligibility criteria that these certifications are not meant for everyone but only the deserving ones are honoured to become a part of the PMP or PMI community.

The eligibility criteria of PMP comprises of 4 year degree graduate + 36 months of experience of leading projects and minimum 35 hours of project management training. Or you may have a high school diploma or associate degree but along with that you are required to have 60 months of work experience of leading projects and minimum 35 hours of project management training. Once you know that you are eligible you should prepare yourself for applying for PMP Certification. You should know that filling the PMP application form is a huge task in itself.

What is Project Management Experience?

Even if you are not a project manager but your experience falls under the 5 phases, i.e. Initiating, Planning, Execution, Monitoring & Controlling, and Closing, as described by PMI, then you have Project Management Experience. Let’s understand what does the phases of project management mean:

• Initiating: It is the first phase of project life cycle, the project is officially announced and introduced to the sponsors, and the scope of the project is discussed.
• Planning: In this phase, the project manager prepares the detailed project scope statement and does other activities like resource allocation, schedule analysis, creating work breakdown, structure, etc.
• Execution: This phase includes the main working and execution of the project by team members. The project manager allocates the work to the resources and the resources start working as per the plan.
• Monitoring & Controlling: This stage goes hand in hand along with execution as the project manager monitors everything and ensures that the execution of plan is been done properly. The project manager has to keep a check on risks, changes, conflicts that may occur during the process.
• Closing: This is the final phase of adjourning the project, which include acceptance, final documentation and completing all the required legal formalities before the client completely signs off on the project.

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How to write the PMP Project Management Experience?

• As per PMI, the first project’s start date and last project’s end date should cover at least 3 year long period for degree holders or 5 year long period for high school diploma/associate degree holders.
• You must prepare well for an audit, you are highly recommended to connect with your project supervisor and make sure that you notify him/her about the number of hours that you’ll claim for each project. In case you are selected for an audit then their help will be of utmost importance for you.
• You are not required to enter details about each and every project that you have handled. You must include only that number of projects which are required to reach the minimum required number of hours, that is 4500 for degree holders / 7500 for high school diploma/associate degree holders. Do include the large projects first.
• While adding details of your project management experiences in PMP application form, you will need to give:
• Title to each project.
• Your project role such as project leader, project manager, project coordinator, etc.
• Include your supervisor’s name and contact details. Do not enter your CEO’s details but you should prefer to add details of someone with whom you have worked closely and you have gained consent from.
• Calculate and include the number of hours spent on each project management process/phase group which were discussed above.
• Don’t fill the number of hours more than 40 hours for each week or PMI would ask to amend it as PMI supports work-life balance.
• Make a rough estimate of project hours first and then add them after finalization. As it is not mentioned by PMI but repeated amendments might trigger for an audit.
• You are supposed to write the description of the projects in about 500 characters including the following:

a.) Brief description of the project

b.) Objectives

c.) Key deliverables

d.) Outcome

e.)Your role

• While writing project description for each project try to include PMI terms related to project management such as stakeholders, project charter, acceptance of deliverables, quality management, etc at least 5 times a description. You may refer to PMBOK Guide of PMI to search for these terms as these will leave an impact of your project management knowledge.

The above steps are to be performed for each and every project you have planned to submit.

Conclusion to the topic : How do I write my experience for PMP?

Now, that you have learned how to write work experience for PMP Certification. You should start gathering information and complete the PMI’s application process. For more information regarding application requirements and role definition you should use PMP Handbook. The application isn’t too long but filling it accurately is really important as it represents you and it’s your application which decides whether you can appear for the exam or no. So be careful, All the Best.