A SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE REVIEW OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT TRAINING TECHNIQUES Academic Article in Scopus uri icon

abstract

  • Today's workplace can put immense pressure on its workforce to meet the expectations of within budget and on-time delivery of work. One antidote to this issue is training the workforce in effective Project Management (PM) techniques, tools, and strategies. Typically, there are implicit expectations of high-productivity outcomes from the workforce upon being provided PM training, given the usually significant investments of time, money, and effort. In addition, there seems to be a growth in the expectation of and need for PM training that is shorter in duration and is as effective, if not more. There has also been significant growth in the availability of PM-related courses owing to developments in education technologies and the requirement for such courses due to the increasing objectification of work. Despite the access to educational content, practitioners may often have to contend with a workplace notion that ¿real¿ PM is far greater than what is learned through courses. Consequently, more may come to be expected of such educational content, and they may be required to provide more comprehensive training. In order to understand how to make PM training more effective and affordable (monetarily and through lower time investments), the diversity of training techniques available first needs to be mapped. To address this objective, this study applies a combination of the PRISMA protocol and State-of-the-Art Matrix (SAM) analysis to the extant literature and discusses the results of the literature search. © © American Society for Engineering Management, 2023.

publication date

  • January 1, 2023