Recommended Follow-On Work


We strongly feel that additional effort should be focused in the future on the interpretation of the data and how the information derived from the data can be used to assist practitioners. All of the nine PMBOK Guide knowledge areas are important, but some subjects stand out as areas of keen interest for project management practitioners and executive management. Questions like "How do I select projects?" and "What is the true return on investment for competing projects?" come to mind. In addition, questions about effective means to identify risks and develop strategies to mitigate the risks are common. These are areas that have a major impact, not only on project resource allocation decisions, but also on how effective and successful the business unit is going to be. We believe that part of our focus needs to be on finding practical answers to these questions.

We hope this research effort is merely the start in documenting the field of project management as a discipline. We feel that there are many fruitful avenues to refine and update this beginning. First, in addition to completion of the investigation of project management research published in the French language, similar investigations should be conducted for other languages. Second, we feel there should be a working session of other researchers to offer advice on refining the methods used. Specifically, we feel a broader collection of researchers could evaluate the definition of project management research, the choice of journals and databases that are included, the choice of keywords used, and the methods of analysis. The results of this working session of project management scholars could serve as the guide for an annual update of the database to include the most current research and to retroactively add any sources that might not be included in this first edition.

We suggest that articles, doctoral dissertations, and government reports that meet the research definition should definitely be included in any updates. We further suggest that PMI conference papers and masters theses be considered for inclusion (however, we do not feel strongly about these). Finally, we suggest proceedings from other conferences and books not be included at least until such time that electronic means make it easy to systematically locate all of them.

We feel the database should be updated either annually or biannually. We feel interpretation workshops should be conducted at least twice annually. Each interpretation workshop should build upon the results of the previous one. Participants should receive, in advance, results of the previous workshop, pre-reading, and a list of discussion questions.

A presentation should be made each year at the PMI Seminars & Symposium and an update should be sent to PM Network so the broad PMI membership can stay informed. A presentation and a workshop should be conducted biannually at the PMI Research Conference and a manuscript should be submitted to Project Management Journal biannually so the PMI research community can stay informed and participate in the continuing development.




The Frontiers of Project Management Research
The Frontiers of Project Management Research
ISBN: 1880410745
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2002
Pages: 207

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