Project Management Strategy—project management represented as a process based set of management domains and the consequences for project management strategy

• Published in: International journal of project management Vol. 21; no. 6; pp. 387 - 393
• Main Authors: Anderson, David K., Merna, Tony
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Kidlington Elsevier Ltd 01.08.2003; Elsevier Science Ltd
• Subjects: Business process reengineering; Business strategy; Implementing strategy; Managing projects; Process planning; Project management; Project management process; Studies; Implementing strategy; Managing projects; Business strategy; Project management process
• ISSN: 0263-7863; 1873-4634
• DOI: 10.1016/S0263-7863(02)00087-X

Project Management is not as consistently effective as it ought to be. If we re-examine some of the examples of failures or poor performance we can see that the causes often originated in poor management particularly at the front-end during strategy formulation, rather than poor downstream execution. Yet most of the project management literature concentrates on the execution tools and techniques rather than the effective development and deployment of project management strategy within a total process concept. An initial process model of project management was presented at the IPMA 15th World Congress in May 2000. This paper reports on further research, developing the model and its deployment, to place project management and project management strategy in the context of business development. Adding value to the business and leading to a reappraisal of the role of project managers in a global energy company.