Assessment of professional competence for project managers and the
measure of project success is well-trodden ground in the research and
professional project management literature. Whilst standards and
certifications like PMBOK and the IPMA competence baseline have been
developed as a guide for the development of project managers'
competence, the manifestation of these competencies into good
performance is neither guaranteed nor always easily ascertainable.
This book presents a brand new, comprehensive, and reliable quantitative
tool to assess the performance of a construction project manager. Though
the performance of a project construction manager may be judged on time
and cost criteria of a project, there is still no one conclusive
evaluation tool based on the varied criteria or competencies that are
usually ascribed to them.
This book develops a performance index for construction project
professionals which can be indicative of their performance measured over
varied attributes over the lifetime of their professional development.
This index has the potential to provide all project stakeholders with
better control over selecting appropriate resources for managing
projects and drive the project professional from within towards
improving his/her credentials with every project.
This book can be used by aspiring and practising project managers for
measuring their own performance and assessing their relative strengths
and weaknesses. Organizations can use the tool as a benchmark to select
the best of their human resources for their projects, and training
institutions can use the tool to set a baseline, highlight areas for
intervention, and indicate the readiness of trainees to face real world
projects.
