Project Management as a Tool for Governments in a Contracting Economy

Project Management as a Tool for Governments in a Contracting Economy

1 . Introduction

Project management can be regarded as an important application especially as to how this approach highlights the focus of a particular project that takes place within a specific period , resources and other constraints . Project management has therefore introduced means to achieve many goals of an organization without having to put the entire institution at risk this is to say that since projects are defined according to their uniqueness and given constraints , its management needs to be specific according

to what needs to be executed based on the established limitations

In the government sector , governments come up with numerous projects of various nature which can be said to be also driven by many factors such as , for instance , the incumbent administration and other political forces that may further define the potentiality of a certain proposal Similar to other organizations , governments rely on contracts as a means to push through with a certain project however , what makes this scenario unique is that other than the political factors , there are a greater amount of considerations involved such as the degree of stakeholder influence and at the same time , depending on the height of the pro of the project , the project itself can be easily subject to public scrutiny . This is why , as Howes (2001 ) pointed out , government project management approaches are typically found to be restrictive with high demands on "productivity , accountability and cost containment (Howes , 2001 , 214 . This is...