The Application of Modern Methodologies and ICT in the Management of Projects in Croatian Companies

Modern business is characterized by the implementation of numerous projects which help companies to achieve some important objectives that can not be successfully fulfilled through their usual operations and processes. Therefore the area of project management (PM) has become a topic of interest for company managers as well as theorists. Successful project management has impact on companies’ competitiveness. Owing to this fact, numerous methodologies for successful project management were developed, such as PRINCE2, PMI Methodology, RUP and Critical Chain Project Management. Information technology and software for supporting project management (MS Project, Primavera, etc.) are of particular significance for project success as they support a systematic and thorough approach to project management yielding better performance. Our survey, conducted on a sample of prominent Croatian companies, examines the practice and consistency of application of the principles of PM methodologies. The research described in this paper focuses on relations between certain important characteristics of projects (including project size, duration and costs) and the issues of the used PM methodology and ICT, wherein certain regularities are established