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Contextualized Project Management Practice

其他書名	A Cluster Analysis of Practices and Best Practices
出版	Project Management Institute, 2013
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=GLTEoAEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋The specificity of project management in different contexts and industries is recognized, but little empirical research encompasses a sufficiently broad range of contexts and project types to precisely identify these specificities. This paper adopts a wide perspective based on a large sample of data from an ongoing empirical investigation of project management practice. It includes a literature review that provides examples of research that validates the idea of the contextual variability of practice and provides examples of how practice varies in different contexts. Contextual archetypes are identified (i.e., clusters of experienced practitioners that share similar organizational and project contexts). Archetypes of contextualized practice are then investigated through the study of the extent of use of empirically identified toolsets in each cluster. The results empirically identified toolsets in each cluster and empirically confirm some well-known assumptions about practice but also sharpen the knowledge and understanding of practice in real complex multidimensional contexts. A new concept of "performing-maturity" emerged from the data, which is detailed in this paper. This concept sheds light on the entangled imbrications of maturity, competence, and success. Practices are regressed against performing-maturity to reveal best contextualized practices.