The Effect of the Project Manager Certification Process on the Development of Project Management – A Croatian Perspective

The paper presents a fundamental analysis of the effect of the certification process on project management as a profession. Through the primary goal of this paper, an analysis of the effects on those individuals and enterprises in Croatia that encourage the need for certification in project management is shown, and a comparison with benchmark countries by the development of project management is shown. The specified breadth of the analysis was supported by the use of different methodological approaches - quantitative and qualitative, and the gathered information will serve for further analysis and the development of project management.