This elite certification recognizes the advanced experience, skills, and performance necessary to manage and align a portfolio of projects and programs to realize organizational strategy and objectives. Only a few thousand professionals have earned their PgMP® certification, so completion indicates a tremendous depth of knowledge and actionable expertise.
Education Requirements
- Path A: Secondary degree (high school diploma, associate's degree, or the global equivalent)
- Path B: Four-year degree
- Path C: Bachelor's or postgraduate degree from a GAC-accredited program
Experience Requirements
Without a four-year degree:
- A minimum of 48 months (four years) of unique, non-overlapping, professional project management experience or PMP
- Minimum of 84 months (seven years) of unique, non-overlapping, professional program management experience
With a four-year degree:
- Minimum of 48 months (four years) of unique, non-overlapping, professional project management experience (or PMP)
- Minimum of 48 months (four years) of unique, non-overlapping, professional program management experience
With a degree from a GAC-accredited program:
- Minimum of 36 months (three years) of unique, non-overlapping, professional project management experience (or PMP)
- Minimum of 36 months (three years) of unique, non-overlapping, professional program management experience
Certification Maintenance Requirements
- Must earn 60 PDUs per three-year cycle to maintain certification.
Skills Measured
- Strategic Program Management (11 tasks) - 15%
- Program Life Cycle (35 tasks) - 44%
- Initiating (6 tasks) - 6%
- Planning (9 tasks) - 11%
- Executing (9 tasks) - 14%
- Controlling (6 tasks) - 10%
- Closing (5 tasks) - 3%
- Benefits Management (8 tasks) - 11%
- Stakeholder Management (7 tasks) - 16%
- Governance (11 tasks) - 14%
Exam Information
- Panel review, 4 hours, 170 questions, multiple choice
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