Anonymous wrote:A lot of people I work with have their PMP - you need it to get bid as key personnel on federal contracts - but you should find the cheapest, fastest way to get it because it won't make you a competent project manager - experience and common sense will.

Okay then! Clearly, if I decide to go forward with this, I need to focus on a) getting the credentials as efficiently and cheaply as possible and b) figuring out some way to get experience that I'm not getting in my current position. (I'm thinking about a program evaluation project I can do as a volunteer job on the side.) And then using this to get the heck out of here to another company. You all have been so helpful. Thanks, DCUM!