Analysis and comparison of project management standards and guides
Résumé
With the increasing scale of systems and products, many large companies ask different
suppliers to manufacture the components of the final systems or products. Thus, managing projects
dedicated to complex systems engineering is very tricky and ensuring the success of projects is a real
issue. Many project management tools, techniques and even standards or guides have been developed
by different
organizations in order to support the management of such projects. For project managers,
selecting and relying on immediately operational methods, tools and references (standards and
guides) for a project manager to lead his project represents a true diff
iculty. The purpose of this paper
is to introduce, analyze and compare the most famous project management references (PMBoK, ISO
21500 and ISO/IEC 29110) to provide a global and a detailed views on project management
methodological guidelines, in order to facilitate the choice of a project management reference to help
the project manager to manage the project effectively, thus to improve the success rate of projects.