27 March 2009

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April’s Item of the Month at the Marketplace

Researching the Value of Project Management

By Janice Thomas, PhD, and Mark Mullaly, PMP 

An invaluable addition to every project professional’s library.

The value of project management has often been proclaimed in consulting and practitioner literature, but the actual value resulting from investments in project management has been hard to define, let alone measure.

This monograph is the first to prove the value of project management with statistical significance.

PMI requested proposals in 2004 for research designed to quantify the value of project management. This monograph, Researching the Value of Project Management, documents the three years of fieldwork and cross-disciplinary analysis conducted between May 2005 and June 2008 by the research team that won the proposal.

With this research monograph, the investigators sought to find compelling evidence of the value of project management recognized by organizations when project management is appropriately implemented.

A goal of the research was that the answers to the value statements and forthcoming practice guidelines be perceived as valuable, rigorous and appropriate by the academic and practitioner communities.

From 1-30 April, purchase this title from PMI.org/Marketplace at the PMI member price of US$31.95 (regularly US$39.95).