Project Management Information Classification
The Special Interest Sites of the PMFORUM are classified in three ways. That is
Generally Accepted Project Management Practices
The Special Interest Sites are organized into "generally accepted practices" (GAPMP) of project management. The classification of project management sites using the "generally accepted practices list" is not a perfect fit . That is, some project management sites espouse interest and experience in all the PM management areas. However if the site has a particular of interest or practices leverage it has been used as a particular GAPMP site.
The GAPMP listed in the PMFORUM are Communications, Cost, Configuration Management, Data Management, Human Resources, Integration and Disaggragation, Logistics Support, Procurement and Contracting, Quality, Risk, Scope of Work, Systems Engineering and Time. Earned Value Management Systems are listed under Cost.
Areas of Project Management Application
The Area of Project Management Application (APMA) category uses the more general project management information classification schema of the Project Management Knowledge System (PMKS) proposed by Max Wideman in his Project Management Institute '98 Symposium paper "Project Management Knowledge Structure"
Wideman sees the PMKS used to:
The APMA currently listed in the PMFORUM are:
[ Construction
] [ Defense ] [ Information Technology
] [ Software Development ]
[ Government ] [ Pharmaceutical
]
This APMA list, as for the GAPMP listing, is not sufficient and other APMA's will be added to the PMFORUM when the area is identified as substantive to the practice of project management
Industry Classification System
NAICS is a system for classifying business establishments. It is an economic classification system constructed on a single economic concept. Economic units that use like processes to produce goods or services are grouped together. This "production-oriented" system means that statistical agencies will produce data that can be used for measuring productivity, unit labor costs, and the capital intensity of production; constructing input-output relationships; and estimating employment-output relationships and other such statistics that require that inputs and outputs be used together.
Continued use of this additional PM web resource classification system will allow a search by NAICS in the site search engine.For more on NAICS go to www.census.gov/epcd/www/naics.html
See Table 2 for the PMFORUM NAICS Sector List.