Contextualization of Project Management Practice and Best Practice

The Contextualization of Project Management Practice and Best Practice contributes to a better understanding of project management practice by investigating the use and usefulness of project management practices, tools, and techniques. The study examines practice variations among organizational, project management, and project contexts and performance. The use of project management practices, tools, and techniques is seen here as an indicator of the realities of practice. A clear understanding of the state of professional practice is particularly important to future development in the field of project management. Directly observing what project practitioners do and how they put into action their knowledge and competencies is a means to understand their practice. These observations are a necessary foundation material for the conceptualization of practice and theory building. The present book examines an important and directly observable aspect of project management practice: the use of the practices, tools, and techniques that are specific to the field.