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they are planning and executing projects (Stjórnarráð Íslands, 2013). In 2014, a research conducted by
MPM students at Reykjavik University demonstrated that the job title "project manager" in Iceland is
frequently used for jobs that have little or nothing to do with professional project management
(Guðmundsdóttir & Jónsdóttir, 2014). In 2016, IPMA held its 4th research conference in Reykjavik, with
the theme "Project management and sustainability." In 2018 the IPMA ICB4 was published in Iceland by
VSF.

Since 2000-2006 interest in Agile project management, and Scrum methods in particular, became
noticeable within Icelandic companies, especially among IT professional and software developer. Since
then Agile and Scrum has become an integrated part of the project management toolbox of many
project management professionals in Iceland.

Discussion
The figure below shows some critical milestones in the development of project management as a formal
professional discipline in Iceland. It is based to the overview given the previous chapter of this paper and
put in context with the timeline that was laid out in the introduction section.

Figure 3. The timeline of Project Management in Iceland.

The idea is to represent the extent to which project management has developed in the direction of a
profession based on the norms defined in the theoretical section. It is quite clear that some of the