Relationship With PMI
A longtime member of the Project Management Institute, Cleland was named a Fellow of PMI in 1987 and has received PMI’s Distinguished Contribution to Project Management Award an unprecedented three times. He has published numerous articles, book chapters, and presented many papers at professional meetings in his field. He has served as a consultant for both national and foreign companies, and is recognized as the "Father of Project Management." He is co-founder of the University of Pittsburgh Manufacturing Assistance Center (MAC), whose mission is to provide manufacturing systems technology assistance to small and mid-sized manufacturers in Western Pennsylvania.
The PMI has named an award in his honour; the PMI David I. Cleland Project Management Literature Award.
Its purpose is to recognize and honour the best project management literature published during the previous calendar year. This award recognizes the author for significant contributions and for advancing the project management knowledge, practices, procedures, concepts, or other advanced techniques that demonstrate the value of using project management. The publication may be on historical, current or future endeavours.
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