Some insights on the future of project management in public administration

Abstract

Public project management, as in other sectors, will develop intensively due to the general tendency to projectification of many areas of the organization's activity. In deciding on the implementation of public sector projects, the influence of interested communities should increase to the detriment of politicians. The role of governments should change: from concluding contracts and enforcing their implementation on an arms-length basis, organizations will be created to support contractors in carrying out their work, and especially in solving the problems they encounter. Public projects will be implemented for ever smaller groups of recipients, even for individual citizens. Project management communities and associations will be more focused on the needs of public administration, which will result in the creation of specialized methodologies and standards for the public sector. The project management community will take a more significant account of cross-sectoral differences in its research. As a result, knowledge about project management will be popularized in the public administration environment, which in turn will contribute to more effective implementation of public projects for the benefit of their individuals, communities, and whole societies.