| Abstract [eng] |
The purpose of this work is to create guidiance for SMEs how to apply project management. The increase in the adaption of project management disciplines to accomplish work in different sectors and industries is significant. The economic pressure to reduce the “time to market” leads to the fact that projects rarely operate in isolation within organizations. Most of the time projects need to satisfy broader strategic priorities. This pressure caused an increase in the number of projects conducted simultaneously within organizations. Therefore, managing their interdependencies and multiple implementations became more complex (Too and Weaver, 2014). Consequently, project management and project management standards are regarded as an important factor in modern organizations. For this reason, organizations must decide how they want to apply project management. The most natural way is to introduce one of the many project management standards existing in literature. The introduction of a project management standard is time consuming and causes high costs for the implementation. For these reasons organizations try to reduce the risk as much as possible. The main questions should be “Which standard fits the current needs the best”, “Which standard will suit best in the future” and “To which extend do we want to apply this standard” (Ahlemann, Teuteberg, & Vogelsang, 2009; Grau, 2013). |
