• Category 2. Professional Activities
• Category 4. Other Providers
• Category 5. Service to Professional Organizations

• Category 2. Presenter or Workshop Leader. We now have confirmation from PMI that, in addition to the time they spend as participants, Presenters can claim ten PDUs and Workshop Leaders can claim five PDUs for serving in those roles. As a presenter, make your claim under Category 2C; a s a workshop leader, use Category 2E.
  
  See the email message from Dr. Zerby confirming the bases for these claims.
  
  We also have a confirmation that a person may claim for time as both a presenter (Category 2) and as an attendee (Category 4) at a seminar on the same day, but not at the same time, of course. See the email message from Laurie Cooke
  
  
• Category 4. Seminar Attendee. As a participant in a seminar, when you are not making a presentation, make your claim under Category 4. One PDU may be claimed for each hour of attendance at a presentation or workshop. Ten minutes per each hour for breaks are permitted in programs that exceed one hour in length. Seminar programs are typically designed to provide seven PDUs for attendance for the full day. If one attends for less than a full day, the PDU claim should be adjusted accordingly
  
  
• Category 5. Service to Professional Organizations The Officers of the Society will earn five PDUs per year for serving. Other members may earn PDUs by serving on committees or task forces of the Society.
  
  The seminar PM can claim five PDUs. The email message from Dr. Zerby confirms that the role of seminar PM requires an effort comparable to a one-year term as a committee member. The seminar PM can claim five PDUs for service in addition to PDUs for attendance at the seminar (Category 4) and for making a technical presentation (Category 2), if applicable.
  
  Except for the seminar PM, A short term volunteer assignment as a member of the management team for a seminar likely would not entitle one to PDUs. The excerpt from the Continuing Certification Requirements Handbook below suggests that a committee member must participate for a minimum of three months. Each member of the management team will have to assess her or his own involvement and decide whether it constitutes three months of participation.
  
  

  Category 5: Service to Professional or Community Organizations. Serve as a committee member for a project management organization.

  • Minimum three months of participation. One PDU per calendar year. (No PDUs are awarded for service less than three months.)
  • Minimum six months of participation. Three PDUs per calendar year
  • Twelve months of participation. Five PDUs per calendar year
  
  
• Provider Information. The Activity Provider is the Society of PM Professionals of Greater Vancouver. For contact information, enter the URL for the Society : www.vcn.bc.ca/pmprof/