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PMI Professional Development Unit (PDU) Training Online Training

Sharpen your project leadership skills with this PMI-aligned PDU course. Designed for PMP, CAPM, and other PMI-certified professionals, this training strengthens your PMBOK knowledge, improves project governance, and helps you apply modern planning tools to real work. Earn PDUs that qualify with PMI to renew your certification and stay current. Walk away ready to lead smarter, communicate better, and deliver stronger project outcomes.

Updated July 2025

30Skills
122Videos
1Practice Exam
26h 6mTotal
122 videos1 exam26h 6m

Who This Course Is For

This course is for PMI certified professionals who need to earn PDUs in order to keep their project management skills and certifications current. It's also ideal for project managers who want to sharpen planning, governance, and charter development expertise.

Skills Your Team Will Gain

  • Apply OPAs and EEFs effectively in real project environments
  • Develop strong project charters that align teams and stakeholders
  • Create tactical and strategic project plans
  • Use data gathering and analysis tools
  • Integrate PMBOK 6 and 7 documentation practices
  • Identify and troubleshoot governance and planning risks

Course Curriculum

  • Premium skill.OPAs and EEFs51m
  • Premium skill.Project Plans54m
  • Premium skill.Project Management Tools49m
  • Premium skill.Project Documents53m
  • Premium skill.The Project Charter50m
  • Premium skill.Early Planning49m
  • Premium skill.The Work Breakdown Structure52m
  • Premium skill.The WBS Workshop52m
  • Premium skill.Project Scheduling51m
  • Premium skill.The Scheduling Workshop47m
  • Premium skill.Project Budgeting49m
  • Premium skill.Earned Value Management Workshop46m
  • Premium skill.Stakeholder Management51m
  • Premium skill.Change Management47m
  • Premium skill.Project Leadership53m
  • Premium skill.Project Communications48m
  • Premium skill.Quality Management55m
  • Premium skill.Project Planning Chaos54m
  • Premium skill.Resource Management52m
  • Premium skill.Risk Management49m
  • Premium skill.The Risk Workshop-Part 154m
  • Premium skill.The Risk Workshop- Part 254m
  • Premium skill.The Risk Workshop- Part 31h 1m
  • Premium skill.Procurement Management57m
  • Premium skill.Project Recovery Lab58m
  • Premium skill.Leadership Lab53m
  • Premium skill.Execution Excellence54m
  • Premium skill.Project Closure46m
  • Premium skill.The Strategic PM1h 6m
  • Premium skill.The PM Survival Guide53m

For IT leaders

What IT leaders need to know before assigning this course

Project delivery risk grows when IT teams plan inconsistently, manage change informally, or lack a shared language for scope, schedule, budget, risk, and closure. This PMI PDU training gives IT Directors and Training Managers a structured way to refresh project management practices across project managers, Team Leads, service delivery owners, and IT Practitioners who participate in project work. The full curriculum is about 26 hours per learner, with individual sections around 45–65 minutes, making it practical to assign over several weeks without pulling staff out of delivery work. The course is best suited for teams that already run projects and need stronger governance habits: charters, WBS, scheduling, budgeting, earned value, stakeholder communication, change control, procurement, recovery, and closure. For change management, leaders should expect learners to apply templates and planning practices consistently—not just complete videos. CBT Nuggets Playlists help assign the right sequence by role, and Team Reporting helps document completion for professional development tracking.

Team Impact

How this training helps your team succeed

IT teams complete this training to reduce project drift and make delivery more predictable across infrastructure, software, and operational initiatives. The curriculum emphasizes practical project artifacts and workshops rather than theory alone.

  • Stronger project starts: Teams learn how charters, early planning, OPAs, EEFs, and project plans create alignment before work begins.
  • Better schedule and budget control: WBS, scheduling, budgeting, and earned value workshops help teams connect scope to timelines, cost tracking, and progress reporting.
  • Fewer unmanaged changes and risks: Stakeholder management, change management, resource planning, procurement, and risk workshops support more disciplined decision-making.
  • Improved recovery and closure: Project recovery, execution excellence, leadership, communications, quality management, and closure topics help teams stabilize troubled work and capture lessons for future projects.

After completion

Knowledge & ability your team will gain

Knowledge

  • How organizational process assets and enterprise environmental factors influence project planning.
  • The purpose of project charters, project plans, project documents, and early planning activities.
  • How WBS, scheduling, budgeting, and earned value management fit together in project control.
  • Stakeholder, communication, quality, resource, procurement, change, and risk management concepts.
  • Leadership practices for execution, recovery, strategic project management, and project closure.

Ability

  • Build clearer project foundations using charters, planning inputs, and documented assumptions.
  • Break down project scope into manageable work with a WBS and translate it into schedules.
  • Track project performance using budget planning and earned value management concepts.
  • Identify stakeholders, plan communications, and manage change requests more consistently.
  • Run risk discussions, document responses, and support recovery efforts when projects go off track.

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