The Influence of the Use of Project Management Tools and Techniques on the Achieved Success

Abstract

The management of a project is considered successful provided that it has been finished within the agreed period of time, if it does not exist any budget overrun, as long as all client requests and expectations are fulfilled, and on condition that the project team management has been appropriate. For that, there are many tools and techniques which allow the task management to be effective and efficient. The purpose of this work consists of studying the amount of success of the projects performed by Project Managers and Chemical Engineers without training in Project Management, by using tools and techniques of this discipline. The study starts with a selection of the most widely used project management and agile methodologies tools and techniques, from research made by specialists. Afterwards, a survey, given to an expert panel for each field, has been made, in which they have been asked for the scale of use of the chosen tools and techniques, as well as the level of success achieved in the executed projects. Finally, a statistical study has been performed, in order to determine if the fact of knowing and utilizing those tools and techniques improves the level of success.