Can I earn PDUs from reading books?
“Yes!” If you love to read, here are some recommended books along with the number of PDUs you can earn, the category it belongs to as well as the cost range for each one.
Please note that the categories have been updated based on the new guidelines from PMI:
– Ways of Working (formerly Technical Project Management)
– Power Skills (formerly Leadership)
– Business Acumen (formerly Strategic and Business Management)
How many PDUS can I claim from books?
The requirements for earning PDUs is similar to others:
If your certification is… | PMP, PgMP, PfMP, PMI-PBA, PMI-ACP, PMI-RMP, PMI-SP |
For 1 hour of this activity you can claim the following # of PDUs | 1 |
Documentation needed | Notes and dates related to your readings |
Note: I’ve estimated how long it would take to read each book and translated that time into PDUs (based on an average reading speed of 250 words per minute).
Now you can quickly see how many PDUs you can earn from each book.

Product Leadership: How Top Product Managers Launch Awesome Products and Build Successful Teams
Richard Banfield, Martin Eriksson, Nate Walkingshaw

Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow
Matthew Skelton, Manuel Pais


Designed for Digital: How to Architect Your Business for Sustained Success (Management on the Cutting Edge)
Jeanne W. Ross, Cynthia M. Beath, Martin Mocker

Value Stream Mapping: How to Visualize Work and Align Leadership for Organizational Transformation
Karen Martin, Mike Osterling

Leading Transformation: How to Take Charge of Your Company’s Future
Nathan Furr, Kyle Nel, Thomas Zoega Ramsoy

Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time
Jeff Sutherland

Do What Matters Most: Lead with a Vision, Manage with a Plan, Prioritize Your Time
Rob Shallenberger, Steve Shallenberger

Retrospectives Antipatterns
Aino Vonge Corry

Doing Agile Right: Transformation Without Chaos
Darrell Rigby, Sarah Elk, Steve Berez


Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
Daniel H. Pink


Agile Project Management: 3 books in 1
Andy Vickler

The Long-Distance Leader
Kevin Eikenberry, Wayne Turmel

The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
Gene Kim, Kevin Behr and George Spafford

The 4 Disciplines of Execution: Achieving Your Wildly Important Goals Paperback
Sean Covey, Chris McChesney

Applied Software Project Management
Andrew Stellman, Jennifer Greene

Your Next Five Moves: Master the Art of Business Strategy
Patrick Bet-David


The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable
Patrick M. Lencioni

Adrenaline Junkies and Template Zombies: Understanding Patterns of Project Behavior
Tom DeMarco, Peter Hruschka, Tim Lister, Steve McMenamin, James Robertson

Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams
Tom Demarco


Agile Project Management with Scrum
Ken Schwaber

The Toyota Way: 14 Management Principles from the World’s Greatest Manufacturer
Jeffrey Liker, Gary L. Convis

Building A Winning Team: Technical Leadership Capabilities
Robina Chatham, Brian Sutton


Lean Analytics: Use Data to Build a Better Startup Faster
Alistair Croll & Benjamin Yoskovitz


More Fearless Change: Strategies for Making Your Ideas Happen
Mary Lynn Manns, Linda Rising


Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great
Esther Derby

Principle-Centered Leadership
Stephen R. Covey

Kanban in Action
Marcus Hammarberg, Joakim Sunden

The DNA of Strategy Execution
Jack Duggal

97 Things Every Scrum Practitioner Should Know
Gunther Verheyen


The Design Thinking Playbook: Mindful Digital Transformation of Teams, Products, Services, Businesses and Ecosystems
Michael Lewrick, Patrick Link, Larry Leifer

Lean Enterprise: How High Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale
Jez Humble, Joanne Molesky, Barry O’Reilly



The Art of Agile Development
James Shore, Shane Warden

Project Management for Non-Project Managers
Jack Ferraro


The Wisdom of Teams: Creating the High-Performance Organization
J Katzenbach and Douglas Smith

The Scrum Field Guide: Agile Advice for Your First Year and Beyond
Addison-Wesley Professional

The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
