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I attended two conferences last week, speaking at one. The 24th Annual Space Symposium and the Denver PMI Symposium. What dawned on me was the level of professionalism at each conference. The PMI symposium had an Aerospace & Defense (A&D) track. The Space Symposium was all A&D all the time.
The idea that project management is struggling to find its voice may be a view in some domains, but in A&D project management IS how all work gets done. The following list is of supporting or direct organizations where project management, managing projects, and training project managers as professionals is what they do for money. These organizations have project management processes as part of their professional certifications or are Project Management professional organizations unto themselves
- Academy of Program/Project & Engineering Leadership
- American Consulting Engineering Council
- American Concrete Association
- American Institute of Architects
- American Institute of Steel Construction
- American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
- American Public Works Association
- American Society for the Advancement of Project Management
- American Society of Civil Engineers
- American Society of Interior Designers
- American Society of Landscape Architects
- American Society of Mechanical Engineers
- American Society of Naval Engineers
- Association for Project Management
- Association of Information Technology Professionals
- The Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineerin
- Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering
- Associated Builders & Contractors
- Associated General Contractors of America
- Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association
- Australian Institute of Project Management
- British Computer Society Project Management
- Building Owners and Managers Association International
- Concrete Reinforcing Steel Institute
- Construction Industry Institute
- Construction Management Association of America
- Construction Specifications Institute
- Cranefield College of Project and Programme Management
- Design-Build Institute of America
- European Academy of Management
- Gas Research Institute
- International Association of Facilitators
- International Association for Project Management
- International Institute for Software Process
- Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
- Institute of Real Estate Management
- International Association of Fire Chiefs
- International Conference of Building Officials
- International Cost Engineering Council
- International Council of Systems Engineering
- International Engineering Consortium
- International Facility Management Association
- International Project Management Association
- National Academy of Forensic Engineers
- National Association of Industrial & Office Properties
- National Association of Purchasing Management
- National Association of the Remodeling Industry
- National Association of Women In Construction
- National Concrete Masonry Association
- National Contract Management Association
- National Defense Industrial Association
- National Institute of Building Sciences
- National Sanitation Foundation
- National Society of Professional Engineers
- Operations Research Society
- Performance Management Association
- Product Development Management Association
- Project Management Institute
- Project Management Forum's list of Project Management Societies
- Sheet Metal & Air Conditioning Contractors' National Association
- Society of American Military Engineers
- Society of Fire Protection Engineers
- Space Foundation
- Structural Engineers Association of California
- Swedish Project Management Society
- Swiss Project Management Society
These and possibly more all have guidance for managing projects within their disciplines. What each member does is "manage projects" within their domain.
