Study on the Image of the Project Management Profession
Richard Newton and I thought for quite some time about making a study about the image of the project management profession. We both noticed that there is a gap between what project managers do and what they think they do, between how important they feel as part of their organizations and how important they actually are. With the help of a quick survey, we want to understand how big is this gap and see if there's anything we can do to bridge it.
If you work as a project manager or have worked with project managers, then please take 5 minutes of your time to answer a few questions.
UPDATE: the survey is now closed. We will take some time to analyze the results and come back with an analysis. A big thank you to all the people who replied to it.
Complete the Survey
Please complete the questions below. If you don't like how the survey is display in this article, you can go here: https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl=en&formkey=dEtOTjJ2cFR6TmdUQ...
Thank You for Spreading the Word!
We plan to run this survey for a couple of weeks on as many websites as possible. Therefore a big thanks to the people who agreed to run it on their blogs: Pawel Brodzinski from Pawel Brodzinski on Software Project Management, Mansi Bhatia from First Impressions, Robert Dempsey from Atlantic Dominion Solutions, Michael Pietroforte from 4 SysOps, the The PPM Community Daily, the team from 7 Tutorials, the team from TinyHacker.
We would like to also thank the people who chose to spread the word via twitter or other social networks: Daniel H. Pink, Abhijeet Mukherjee, Mihai Dragomirescu, Scott Berkun, Andrew Welch.
In order for this study to be relevant, we need to spread the word as much as possible. Don't hesitate to help us out. You can either share the link towards this article or to directly to the survey: https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl=en&formkey=dEtOTjJ2cFR6TmdUQ...
What Will We Do With the Results?
After we gather enough opinions, we will close the survey and share the results with the world. Of course, all answers are anonymous, so don't worry about any privacy issues. It will take us a while to analyze and summarize everything in an understandable format. So please be patient with us. We will publish them as soon as we can.
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Hi,
I wanted to take the survey but the Occupation field is problematic. I think that people should be able to choose more than one field.
For example, how would you select that field for your case? Are you going to select only P_Manager or are you also going to select - Technical - Writer ? If you are going to select only the P_Manager are you going to place the years (see time experience field) only in that domain or the entire time-frame experience that you have ( P_Manager + T_Writer).
In rest succes ;)
The Occupation field is to give us an indicator in which area you work (as a project manager or something else). To see how much diversity we have, if we managed to reach a diverse group of people or not.
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