Calculating hours : PMP Application

PROJECT WORK EXPERIENCE FOR PMP APPLICATION

1. CALCULATING HOURS

PMI wants 4500 hours of project work experience if you have a bachelor's degree.

That is 35 hours a week (7 hrs a day )

so one year duration means 1680 hours (assuming 20 working days in a month)

i.e. 140 hours per month

note 1. Some people calculate it for 8 hrs a day i.e. 40 hours a week. Both are correct. I am calculating for 35 hours a week
note 2. If you do not have a bachelor's degree, the requirement is 7500 hrs of experience and so you have to add those many numbers of projects to complete the requirements.
note 3: PMI says it has to be Unique, Non overlapping projects. Please do not get confused by the words. It just means that if you were working on two projects at the same time you can pick only one. Not the both. So those hours can be picked only once and not twice while calculating the hours.

to complete 4500 hours you need 32 months of project work experience around (and i think we should always keep it little more)

So Three years are ok (with a Bachelor's degree)

PMI need projects not more then 8 years old…

now its up to you. You can have four projects or 3 or may be just one to show these many months of project work

2. DISTRIBTING HOURS AS PER PMI REQUIREMENT

Now the PMI requires that you further break down these hours in these five process groups 

Initiation 13 %

Planning 24 %

Executing 30 %

Monitoring and Controlling 25 %

Closing 8 %

Look at the table below and it will look like a piece of cake to you :)

Project	From	To	Months	Hrs	Initiation 13%	Planning 24%	Exe 30%	M &C 25%	Closing 8%
Setting up a LAN	Jun 2013	Feb 2014	8	1120	145	270	336	280	89

you have to do the same for all the projects you are mentioning, till you reach the required number of hours

SO NOW HERE IT IS, THE SUMMARY, WHAT YOU HAVE TO DO 

Project 1 

1. Title

2. Brief Description

3. Time Period from ----- to ----- 

4. Total hours

5. Divide

          initiation 13 %

          planning 24 %

          executing 30 %

          monitoring and controlling 25 %

          closing 8 %

6. Reference name for this project

7. Reference e mail id for this project

8. Reference Phone number for this project

KEEP ADDING PROJECTS TILL YOU REACH THE REQUIRED NUMBER OF HOURS 

note 1. you can give the same reference name for more then one project.
note 2. stick to the PMI requirements even if you have worked in many projects.
note 3 . there is no good or bad project.
note 4. talk to your references well in advance. tell them what they have to do if your application falls in audit. (see my post of august on "what to do if your application fall in audit for more information on the same") 

Thats it !!!

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