Contemporary Trends in the Public Sector Project Management

Abstract

Project management as a discipline heavily originated from the public sector and has widely spread in the for-profit companies, non-governmental and civil society organizations. Nowadays it is getting back to the public sector trying to make it more efficient and even effective. The European Union, United States, Russia and other countries are introducing new project based methodologies as a mandatory or recommended methodology in the governments and governmental bodies. This paper aims to, based mainly on a desk research, present latest trends in afore mentioned trends. The idea behind is to show approaches that are being introduced, but also to advocate and promote further development of public sector project management methodologies in the countries worldwide.

Keywords

• public sector
• project management
• european union
• russian federation
• croatia
• serbia