Project Management Professional Certification has become an increasingly popular and important means of verifying and certifying professional competence in the project management arena. Those who have undergone PMP Certification Training in most cases bring several years of prior project management experience to the table in addition to holding an associate degree or a four-year degree in an appropriate field of study. Once this training has been completed and a certification has been granted, the recipient needs to renew the certification periodically by earning a prescribed number of professional development units, PDUs.

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Project managers are to be found in all sectors of industry ranging from manufacturing, finance, and construction, to information technology, new product development, engineering, and architecture.

In Next 5 Years

One of the questions to be answered to the question of where PMP Certification training might be headed in the next five years can be answered in partly by looking at the value the certificate is holding in the market. Professional certification also indicates commitment to the project management profession, and can indicate commitment to the bearer’s company as well.

The downside of certification training is that it can be time-consuming and represents an expense. A capable and experienced program manager may not find the training to be all that time consuming. However an attractive salary after PMP certification makes the exam affordable. The pros definitely outweigh the cons in any event, making the future of PMP certification training favourable.

According to a study conducted by CNN Money, of the 50 job titles rated as being the best jobs in the American economy, the role of IT Project Manager was rated fifth, with a 16% growth in the number of available positions anticipated over a 10-year period. Also, the PMI statistics tend to support the 16% estimate, especially since the PMI figure covers all sectors and not just the IT sector.

The skills project managers are expected to bring to the table to be certified include, among others:

• Cost-benefit
• Business case development
• Risk identification, risk management, and risk response practices and techniques
  WBS tools
• Resource planning, procurement planning and execution, workflow procedures, and change management practices
• Project scheduling
• Project review techniques
• Continuous Improvement practices

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PMP Certification Online Training

There are a number of private organizations as well as institutes of higher education offering PMP Certification training online. Skillogic offers PMP Certification Online training in two modes – one is self-learning and the other one is instructor-led online classroom. While self-learning is ideal for those comfortable with self-study, instructor-led online classroom allows one to avail interactive training from the comfort of home or office.

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To see where project management certification training is headed, one can look towards other countries as well, with India being a prime example of a nation that currently has a growing need for professionally certified project managers in a number of industrial sectors. As has been mentioned, there is an increasing need for highly trained and experienced program managers in the IT sector.