Program Management Professional (PgMP)^® Exam

As a program manager, you are a senior-level practitioner on the forefront of advancing your organization's strategic goals. You manage multiple, related projects in a coordinated way, achieving benefits that could not occur if the projects were handled separately.

Your leadership is instrumental. The Program Management Professional (PgMP)^® is a visible sign of your advanced experience and skill and gives you a distinct advantage in employment and promotion.

Who Should Apply?

If you have the proven ability to manage multiple, related projects and navigate complex activities that span functions, organizations, regions or cultures and to align results with organizational goals, then you’re a potential PgMP. Gain and Maintain Your PgMP^®

Before you apply, make sure you meet of the following sets of PgMP Certification requirements:

• Secondary degree (high school diploma, associate’s degree or the global equivalent)

• 48 months of project management experience OR PMP^®

• 84 months of program management experience within the last 15 years

OR

• Four-year degree

• 48 months of project management experience OR PMP^®

• 48 months of program management experience within the last 15 years • First phase of evaluation is a panel review

• Second phase is the certification exam. The certification exam has 170 multiple-choice questions, and you have four hours to complete it.

• To maintain your PgMP^®, you must earn 60 professional development units (PDUs) every three years.