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Project Management Practitioner VS Project Manager

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Kevin Drake Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Hi Project managers,

Can we call ourselves Project Management Practitioners, Project Management strategist instead of Project Managers, a kind of playing it a bit with words to play it low key?

Can you tell the difference?
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PANKAJ PANDEY PROJECT PLANNING MANAGER| TATA PROJECTS Mirzapur, Uttar Pradesh, India
Yes, I would be agreed with you and I feel that you concept is almost ok because PMBOK defines the Project as temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product or service. This uniqueness tends towards learning something new and this learning present you as a practitioner to become more experienced Project Manager.
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Kiron Bondale Retired | Mentor| Retired Welland, Ontario, Canada
Kevin -

I'm a call a spade a spade person so I think the more we shy away from naming our roles what they actually are, the more we marginalize the profession. I haven't seen engineers, lawyers or doctors using watered down titles, so why should we?

Not legitimizing the title in a company would be a sign of low organizational PM maturity...

Kiron
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ahmad qaraman Project Control Manager| Ramz Kayan Contracting Riyadh, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Practitioners is a logical development of the project manager while strategist could be more like a portfolio manager.
Strategy without projects is just another document collecting dust. Projects without strategic importance quickly lose their appeal
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Sante Delle-Vergini, PhD Senior Project Manager| Infosys Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
My original post got deleted here. I think "practitioner" is fine, but as Kiron said, why not just call a spade a spade.
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Drake Settsu Project Manager / Blogger Hi, United States
If you are running projects you are Project Manager.

I like to say that I'm a Project Manager practicing Project Management like a Lawyer practices law.

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