Professionalization of Project Management

CHAPTER 7

Findings from Comparative Online Survey

The preceding three chapters present the current status of the professionalization journey of three comparable, knowledge-based occupations. This material provides a detailed, if possibly idiosyncratic, examination of three comparable emerging professions with clear similarities to, and differences from, project management. The discussion focused on the threats to professionalization faced by these occupations and the strategies and tactics their professional associations wielded to address these threats. We concluded by highlighting what we feel are threats and strategies that project management needs to consider as it moves forward, based on learning from the experience of these other occupational ...