No, I have not done it. I do know a lot of hiring managers put PMP cert on their PM roles as a requirement or "would like to have". I have hired people with a

No, I have not done it. I do know a lot of hiring managers put PMP cert on their PM roles as a requirement or "would like to have". I have hired people with a PMP and my feeling for it is that the cert checks a box for most companies and for people newer to PMing projects it does set a pretty solid foundation. It doesn't seem like it is a comprehensive training solution by itself, but it gets you the checkbox marked and does seem to have real world value. At least from the people I have talked to that did it, the cert wasn't "hard" necessarily but, at least their training centers, packed a lot of information in a fairly tight timeframe. Some of the PMP training centers (and there are other PM certifications too) have extra training for specific project types and specific functions too, like finance.