The Value of Project Management: & Useful Project Management Resources

PMIS spends much time researching various aspects of project management.  When we come across information that we find very useful, we will add a link or reference here. Our aim is to update this page regularly as a leading source of high quality information on the value of project management, for those who work in the profession, or those who have a business, personal or academic interest in the subject.  If you know of any useful links, please feel free to email their details.

In particular, we will provide links to sources that provide evidence or information on the value of effective project management or qualified  information on effective project management.

This page will be updated frequently. Please feel free to return regularly or add a link to this page.

Project Management Research Papers / Studies

There are many papers on project management - we try and provide examples in this section that are the result of efforts that have integrity or methods that one would associate with formal research - for this reason papers written by single individuals are less likely to qualify.

"The Value of Project Management" - comprehensive global study by PWC looking at relationship between PM maturity at the organisational level and project delivery performance

Standish Report - IT Chaos" - ongoing study into IT projects - useful information of IT project success and failure factors

The Challenges of Complex IT Projects - excellent study by Royal Academy of Engineering and the British Computer Society (BCS)  looking at potential value of traditional PM disciplines to complex IT projects

Earned Value Management Articles / References/ Sites

US Department of Defence EVM" - the spiritual home of Earned Value Management - the United States DoD EVM web site - good source of information and excellent references for those interested in this subject

EVM presentation comprehensive solid material on EVM that includes key implementation characteristics relating to historical projects using EVM

Benefits Realisation and Management

"Benefits Realisation and  Management" - OGC (Office of Government and Commerce) have developed some ground breaking work on the subjects of Benefits Realisation.

Governance of Project Management

Governance of projects is becoming an important subject in business.  For too many years, projects have consumed sizeable amounts of resource with all too often very 'skinny' levels of review and oversight.  This paper, from APM, defines the starting principles that must be understood where organisations seriously wish to make an impact in this area.

 Project Management References - recommended reading sources

• The Wisdom of teams: Katzenbach & Smith, ISBN-13 9780875843674  - excellent book resulting from a research study on the performance of teams

• The Management of Projects, Morris ISBN  0-7277-2593-9 - Excellent account of the development of project management into a modern day discipline

• Management:  A Systems Approach: Cleland & King (New York McGraw Hill) if you can get this from a library it's still an excellent read

• Software Project Management;  Hughes & Cotterell, ISBN: 0077109899, November 2005