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Maintain Your PMI Certification with Bluetellura
Earning a PMI certification is a significant achievement—but it’s only the beginning. To protect and uphold your hard-earned credential, the next step is maintaining it through continuous professional development, which includes actively reporting your PDUs to PMI.
What are PDUs?
Professional Development Units (PDUs) are PMI-recognized credits that help you maintain your certification over a 3-year renewal cycle—without needing to retake the exam.1 PDU = 1 hour of learning or professional activity. These units ensure you stay sharp, relevant, and equipped with the latest project management skills in a fast-changing industry.
At Bluetellura, we offer a variety of flexible, expert-led options to help you earn and report your PDUs—aligned with your learning preferences and career goals. Whether you prefer live instruction, on-demand courses, or practical workshops, we’ve got you covered every step of the way.
Professional Development Units
To qualify for PMP certification renewal, you need to meet specific professional development requirements established by PMI. Learn more about these requirements and how to track your progress during your certification cycle.
What is a Professional Development Unit (PDU)?
A professional development unit, or PDU, represents one hour spent on activities that support your professional growth. These can include learning new skills, sharing knowledge with others, or volunteering.
To renew your PMP certification, you must earn 60 distinct PDUs within a three-year cycle—meaning you need to dedicate at least 60 hours to ongoing development during that time.
What are ways I can earn PDUs?
PMI allows for two types of PDU reporting – Education Units and Giving Back to the Profession Units
Live Training PDU Classes
If you prefer a classroom experience with instructor-led sessions and interactive Q&A, explore our upcoming schedule of live, virtual PDU-approved training—designed to match your professional development goals.
Online Training with Club PDU
If you prefer learning at your own pace, explore our Club PDU—a video-on-demand, self-paced learning library with the option for an annual subscription.
Note: There are limits to the number of PDUs you can claim within each category, and all activities must be well-documented in case of a PMI audit. For full details, please refer to PMI’s CCR Handbook.
Education PDUs
You can earn PDUs through various learning formats such as on-demand online courses, live virtual instructor-led sessions PM-related learning events, local PMI chapter meetings, or even self-directed study through online or digital media.To qualify, education PDUs must align with the PMI Talent Triangle®.At Bluetellura, all of our training programs—whether on-demand or live—are pre-approved by PMI and designed to meet the Talent Triangle’s requirements, making it easy for you to earn and report your PDUs with confidence.
Giving Back to the Profession PDUs
While not mandatory for recertification, these PDUs offer an excellent opportunity for professionals looking to broaden their project management expertise. You can earn them through activities such as working as a practitioner, developing content, delivering presentations, sharing knowledge, or volunteering. Bluetellura’s Program provides flexible, guided paths to help you earn PDUs in this category and continue advancing your professional growth – learn more.
What is the PMI Talent Triangle?
In today’s fast-moving world, project professionals must be more adaptable and strategic than ever to keep up with change and deliver real results.
To succeed in this future-focused environment, project managers need a balanced skillset that spans a wide range of disciplines. That’s why the PMI Talent Triangle emphasizes a blend of three essential skill areas:
Ways of Working – mastering the tools, techniques, and approaches for getting work done.
Business Acumen – understanding strategy, market dynamics, and organizational goals.
Power Skills – building strong relationships through communication, leadership, and empathy.
At Bluetellura, we guide our certification holders in maintaining their PMI credentials by helping them meet the PDU requirements across all three skill areas of the PMI Talent Triangle® — Ways of Working, Business Acumen, and Power Skills. This framework ensures your professional development aligns with the skills employers value most, keeping you competitive, relevant, and ready for the evolving demands of project leadership.
Together, these categories ensure well-rounded development and high-impact performance.
Not sure how your skills, training, or PDUs align with the Talent Triangle?
Explore the examples below to learn more.
Ways of Working
At Bluetellura, we recognize that project excellence requires a diverse toolkit. Our training equips professionals with the ability to apply the right project management approach—be it predictive, agile, or hybrid—based on the demands of the moment. With our guidance, you’ll develop the agility to choose the most effective method to drive successful outcomes. The below are courses that translate to Ways of Working.
Agile and Hyper Agile
Hybrid
Design Thinking
Transformation
Data Gathering and Modeling
Earned Value Management
Governance
Performance Management
Requirements Management and Traceability
Risk Management
Schedule Management
Scope Management
Time, Budget, and Cost Estimation
Business Acumen
Strategic decision-making is vital in today’s evolving business environment. Bluetellura’s transition and training programs strengthen your ability to align project goals with broader business strategies. You’ll gain the insight needed to navigate market trends, optimize resources, and drive growth through informed leadership. The below are courses that translate to Business Acumen.
- Benefits Management and Realization
- Business Models and Structures
- Competitive Analysis
- Customer Relationships and Satisfaction
- Industry Domain Knowledge
- Legal and Regulatory Compliance
- Market Awareness
- Function-Specific Knowledge
- Strategic Planning, Analysis, Alignment
Power Skills
Great leaders don’t just manage—they inspire. At Bluetellura, we help you refine the soft skills that elevate performance: communication, empathy, collaboration, and leadership. These interpersonal capabilities are critical to managing teams, building trust, and leading with purpose in any professional setting. The below are courses that translate to Power Skills.
- Leadership
- Active Listening
- Communication
- Adaptability
- Brainstorming
- Coaching and Mentoring
- Conflict Management
- Emotional Intelligence
- Influencing
- Interpersonal Skills
- Negotiation
- Problem Solving
- Teamwork
To maintain your PMP certification, every credential holder must report a minimum of 8 PDUs in each area of the PMI Talent Triangle®: Ways of Working, Power Skills, and Business Acumen.
At Bluetellura, all our training programs are aligned with PMI’s pre-approved PDU categories, ensuring clarity in PDU allocation and reducing the chances of audit issues. Our structured learning paths make it simple for you to meet your renewal requirements—without the guesswork.
CONTINUING CERTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS (CCRs)
How Do I Report My PDUs?
After you earn PDUs, you’ll log them in PMI’s Continuing Certification Requirements System (CCRS). CCRS lets you monitor your total PDUs throughout the three-year cycle so you can stay on target for renewal. Because Bluetellura is an Authorized Training Partner (ATP), all of our courses—and those offered by our sister brand, Watermark Learning—carry PMI-pre-approved PDU credits.
That means faster, hassle-free reporting: your completion certificate lists a unique course ID, and entering that ID along with our company name in CCRS automatically matches the pre-approved course, minimizing audit risk and saving you time.
Submit Your PDUs to CCRS
Throughout your three-year PMP certification renewal cycle, you’ll need to report your earned PDUs using PMI’s Continuing Certification Requirements System (CCRS). The process is user-friendly and straightforward:
1. Log in to your CCRS dashboard to view the status of your submitted PDUs.
2. Click on “Report PDUs.”
3. Choose the appropriate PDU category from the dropdown list.
4. Complete the required fields to describe your professional development activity—this helps PMI validate the claim.
5. Enter the number and type of PDUs earned.
6. Confirm the accuracy of your entry by ticking the agreement box.
7. Click “Submit.”
After submission, you’ll be directed to a summary page. PMI will follow up with two emails: one confirming that your PDU claim is under review, and another indicating whether it’s been approved and added to your account, or rejected.
PDU REQUIREMENTS BY CERTIFICATION
This chart from the PMI CCR Handbook shows the distribution of PDUs for each certification. Each PMI certification has different CCR requirements. For the latest edition of the handbook, please visit https://ccrs.pmi.org/info/handbooksguides.
