Comments on: Interesting PMI Perspective On Claiming PDUs

By: Derek Huether

Derek Huether — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 03:12:16 +0000

Agustin, sounds like you were over reading Mike Cottmeyer's blog. There is a lot of frustration in the Agile community right now, with the Scrum Alliance pushing the certification. I wouldn't say I'm frustrated with PMI for the same reasons. As "mature" as the processes are in PMBoK, I expected more from the organization promoting it.

By: Derek Huether

Derek Huether — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 03:12:00 +0000

By: Agustin Villena

Agustin Villena — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 01:53:11 +0000

Your experience seems like the “Certified Scrum Master” courses. Two days and … voila! you are a Master!
So bad that the Scrum Alliance and PMI were so similar

By: Agustin Villena

Agustin Villena — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 01:53:00 +0000

Your experience seems like the “Certified Scrum Master” courses. Two days and … voila! you are a Master!
So bad that the Scrum Alliance and PMI were so similar

By: Derek Huether

Derek Huether — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 20:23:06 +0000

I’m actually frustrated by the answer PMI provided. It is not unlike what I went through when I was audited, prior to the exam. PMI sent an email, requiring me to provide a lot of granular data of my previous projects and send it back to them. PMI closed the notice by stating if they were not satisfied with my response, they had the right to deny me the right to sit for the exam with no chance for appeal. When I contacted them asking for specific examples of what they were expecting, they couldn’t give me examples. I was told to just submit what I had and not to worry about it too much. Perhaps this is why I work so hard to help other navigate the PMI minefield. I do take my credential seriously. I just wish PMI would formalize some of these processes and take the guess work out.