Abstract
Do all project managers have the same perspective on project management? This paper argues that project management may be seen from different perspectives. The task perspective means that the project manager focuses on delivering on time, within budget and with specified quality. The organizational perspective implies that the project manager's focus is to support value creation in the receiving organization. The conducted survey reveals that different perspectives prevail among project managers. The implications are of importance. Every project has to decide at the outset which project management perspective shall rule the work of the project.
11. Further studies
Our empirical study looked at project managers and their perspectives. It would be of great interest to conduct a study on project teams and see whether the team members have different perspectives. It would also be interesting to follow the team throughout the project to see if the team members are homogenous in their views or if their perspectives are changing and which factors are affecting their views. We would believe that teams which have frequent socialization activities would tend to become more homogenous. Since we are claiming that different perspectives would benefit from the use of different methods or focus on different aspects of the results, it would be interesting to see if this can be substantiated. The project discipline would develop in constructive ways if it could give more clear recommendations on which methods to be used dependent on the applied perspective of the project team.
