PfMP® Certification Training

Portfolio Management talks about achieving organizational strategies for the business. This is of utmost importance to any business.

This certification guides you on the scientific tools and techniques and provides you with the good proven practices to manage the portfolio and therefore, achieve the organization strategies.

Please refer the blog for more details.

The following can be a good Audience for Portfolio Management Certification (PfMP) and consider this certification.

• Senior Executives and Governance boards who make decisions regarding organizational strategy
• Management or Senior Executives who develop organization strategy or who are in advisory capacity to other Senior Members
• Portfolio, Program and Project Practitioners and Aspirants and Experts
• Researchers analyzing Portfolio Management
• Members of Portfolio, Program or Project Management office
• Consultants and specialists in Portfolio, Program or Project management & related disciplines
• Business and technical professionals such as authors, trainers, engines, others who do manage a portfolio of programs, projects and operational activities
• Entrepreneurs who handle portfolios and steer their companies
• Operations Managers who have financial, human, supply chain, marketing considerations in a portfolio
• Portfolio, Program, Project and Operational team members and customers and other related stakeholders
• Strategy planners and executives in organizations
• Educators teaching Portfolio management and related subjects
• Students of Portfolio Management and related fields

Since it is a relatively new certification, many would be unsure whether they can meet the said eligibility criteria. ProThoughts with their Cousnelling experts can provide you guidance whether you can appear for the PfMP exam.

Kindly request you to drop a mail to info@prothoughts.co.in with your interest or fill the Contact Us enquiry form on the side bar. Our representative will be happy to help!

Given the complexity and novelty of the PfMP course and the fact that very few are privy to this PfMP knowledge, it needs to be Instructor Led. ProThoughts has its own in-house instructors and this course will be a master-class by Mr. Ashish Sadekar, who is a well know figure in project management circles. To cater to the global audience, we have outlined a Instructor led Virtual Class.

The duration of the course will be for 18 hours spread over 3 days with elearning material for participants to prepare for the exam. The elearning material will include a Slide Book, Flash Cards, Mock Tests among other engaging activities / games and material.

You will get 21 PDUs toward your continuing education requirements with the Project Management Institute (PMI) ^® for Project Management Professional (PMP)^® and PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) ^® certifications and Program Management Professional Certifications (PgMP) and Disciplined Agile Certifications.

It is not required to be PMP certified to apply for PfMP certification. Both are independent certifications targeting different roles in the organizations.

The PfMP exam will have 170 questions. And before the exam, your application will be reviewed by a Panel Committee.

Out Of the 170 questions, 20 are considered pretest questions. So, you are scored on 150 questions.

The panel review process begins once the audit is completed (if your application is selected) and the certification payment is received.

A panel of volunteer portfolio managers will assess your professional experience based on your responses to the Portfolio Management Experience Summaries on the PfMP application.

This review panel consists of individuals from around the world who, through an application process, have been identified as subject matter experts in portfolio management and have been trained and calibrated to assess your answers to the Portfolio Management Experience Summaries. To protect against any potential review bias, PMI will ensure that your identity will not be known to the panel reviewers.

The review will verify that you, under very limited supervision, have been responsible for the coordinated management of one or more portfolios that aim to align the investment in projects and programs with organizational strategy.

If you fail the panel review, a certification associate will contact you to discuss your status. It is not possible to continue on to the examination without passing this review.

Once you pass the panel review, you will be eligible to take the examination 

This process takes approximately four weeks to complete.

The PfMP package from ProThoughts includes counselling and reviewing of application form. We understand that filing the application form may be the difficult part of the PfMP certification journey and we are happy include these services as part of our package.

To maintain your PfMP^®, you must earn 60 professional development units (PDUs) in portfolio management topics every three years.

The examination fee for PMI members is USD 800 and for non-members is USD 1,000. 

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Please drop a mail to info@prothoughts.co.in or fill the enquiry form on the side bar and our representative will get in touch with you.