Research on the Needs of Methodological Support in Project Management

The purpose of this study was to investigate the needs of methodological support to project management in Polish enterprises.The scope of this study was to develop assessment criteria and comprehensive methodological needs and solutions research frameworks, as well as applying them to investigate the needs of methodological support for project management in Polish enterprises.The main findings of the study were that the majority of organizations expect methodological support in the form of a framework of regulations. Defining a project seems to be issue which is expected to be supported in the most detailed and precise manner. Project risk management, project quality management and project procurement management are the areas which were the most frequently chosen as those with the least methodological support needs. As far as the correlation between variables was concerned, the strongest tie existed between the project complexity level and project documentation. The project complexity level has been identified as the variable which affected the most of dependent variables (16 out of 18).