Principles of project management

March 6, 2024 Leave a comment

The objective of this article which I wrote with a group of colleagues, is to determine whether a set of project management principles can be identified to serve as a common framework for developers and publishers of project management standards and guides. We looked at twenty-two project management standards and other consensus documents to gain a common understanding across the globe of the requirements for effective project management. We then took our findings and clustered into four categories from which we came up with 12 principles we believe could serve as a common basis for future standards and guides.

You can read our accepted manuscript here.

And you can see a video about it here.

Reference: Blampied, N., Buttrick, R., Jucan, G., Piney, C. (“Kik”), Stevens, C., Violette, D. & Max Wideman, R. In Search of Project Management Principles. Project Management Journal, 0(0). Copyright © 2023 Project Management Institute, Inc. https://doi.org/10.1177/87569728231158261

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About Robert Buttrick
Robert Buttrick is the author of the Project Workout. He has been providing advice and guidance since the publication of the first edition of his best-selling “flagship” book, the Project Workout in 1997 and now its 4th edition. The principles laid out in the publications, take a holistic view, ensuring that culture, systems, processes and accountabilities are mutually compatible. The book has been translated into French, Korean, Chinese, Russian and Romanian . . . but not yet into Latin! Robert received a Distinguished Service Certificate from BSI for services to national and international project management standards; he is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing, Chartered Engineer and an Honorary Fellow of the Association for Project Management. He currently works as a consultant and is a Visiting Teaching Fellow at the University of Warwick.

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