Analysis of methodological approaches to the project management

Abstract

The interest to the project management that appeared several years ago has made it surely the most mentioned and widely known tool of management. In many ways it has happened due to set of regulatory documents of the RF Government that establishes arrangement procedure of project activities, organization chart of management system, initialization stages, preparation stages, implementation stages, monitoring and priority project accomplishment stages and others. State governments in the Russian Federation were recommended to organize project activity at their level. Taking into account that the number of employees of governmental authorities and municipal authorities at the end of 2016 was 31.8 people per 1000 people active in economy or about 1 million of people in absolute terms, target audience amount who is interested in project management methods study is quite remarkable. However, regulatory documents offered by the RF Government do not contain methodological description of project management basis and verification of its advantages in comparison with other management tools and contain the aggregation of best practice in the sphere of project management. The responses to the mentioned questions were covered fragmentarily in the scientific-practical literature; the main focus is on the analysis of strategic tools and project management methods and not on basic management philosophy.