What is the meaning of PM to you? Project Management and/or Project Manager?

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JOONMIN SUH Project Engineering Manager| Samsung Construction & Trading Seongnam, Gyeonggi, South Korea

PMBOK Guide clearly uses the abbreviation of PM only for Project Manager not for Project Management, however we can easily find that many people out there use PM both Project Management and Project Manager. Examples from this web site are followed;
- The PM logo at Projectmanagement.com means Project Management
- PMchallenge and PMwars mean Project Manager
- PM Expertise means Project Management
There is no objection PM is one of the key person in project, but this site or in your presentation material PM are not just only for project manager but maybe all project related members, stakeholders, etc.
So, my suggestion is to use one specific acronym for Project Management, if required; for example like PMT, or just use Project Management like PMBOK Guide.
What is your answer?

Posted: Dec 7, 2017 9:50 PM

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Najam Mumtaz Retired Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan

For me PM is Project Manager. If I have to use Project Management, I don't abbreviate.

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1 reply by JOONMIN SUH

Jan 08, 2018 9:37 PM

JOONMIN SUH

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Thanks for your comment. It seems that you are following the same defintions of the PMBOK Guide.

Posted: Jan 7, 2018 7:46 PM

JOONMIN SUH Project Engineering Manager| Samsung Construction & Trading Seongnam, Gyeonggi, South Korea

Jan 07, 2018 7:46 PM

Replying to Najam Mumtaz

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For me PM is Project Manager. If I have to use Project Management, I don't abbreviate.

Thanks for your comment. It seems that you are following the same defintions of the PMBOK Guide.

Posted: Jan 8, 2018 9:37 PM

Bang Yang PM I| shenzhen Dongguang, China, Mainland

I think project manager is a position in a company, project management is a theory or way. project manager must understand project management then he/she could be a project manager. if use chinese to explain these two short sentence will very easy to distinguish .

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Jan 09, 2018 7:14 PM

JOONMIN SUH

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Thanks for your expalnation.

Posted: Jan 9, 2018 4:10 AM

JOONMIN SUH Project Engineering Manager| Samsung Construction & Trading Seongnam, Gyeonggi, South Korea

Jan 09, 2018 4:10 AM

Replying to Bang Yang

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Thanks for your expalnation.

Posted: Jan 9, 2018 7:14 PM

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