PMI Scheduling Professional (PMI-SP)

PMI’s Scheduling Professional (PMI-SP) credential is a response to project management’s increasing growth, complexity and diversity. Globally recognized and demanded, the PMI-SP fills the need for a specialist role in project scheduling.

It recognizes your unique expertise and competence to develop and maintain project schedules, while still possessing baseline knowledge skills in all areas of project management.

The PMI-SP demonstrates skill and competence in the specialized area of project scheduling. If you’re looking to fill the scheduling specialist role on your project team, hone your basic project management skills and showcase your specialized expertise to employers, the PMI-SP credential is for you.

To apply for the PMI-SP, you need to have either:

• A four-year degree (bachelor’s or the global equivalent), with at least 3,500 hours of project scheduling experience and 30 hours of project scheduling education.
  
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• A secondary diploma (high school or the global equivalent) with at least 5,000 hours of project scheduling experience and 40 hours of project scheduling education.

To apply for the PMI-SP, register and log in to PMI online system to get started. A printable PMI-SP application form is also available.

As part of PMI’s Continuing Certification Requirements program, a PMI-SP credential holder will need to earn 30 PDUs in the specialized area of project scheduling per three-year cycle. To learn more about the program, what are PDUs, how to earn and claim them, as well as step-by-step instructions on how to renew your certification, watch the CCR video. You can also reference the latest PMI-SP Handbook found on PMI.org.

Source: Project Management Institute (PMI)