MPM Government Study

Despite the high importance of projects in the public sector, project management and ,even more so, project portfolio management in public organizations receives little scientific attention compared to the private sector. The TIM department is therefore conducting a study on the success factors of multi-project management in the public sector in cooperation with the Kompetenzzentrum (Groß-) Projectmanagement (CC GroßPM) of the Federal Office of Administration (Bundesverwaltungsamt, BVA).

This research project builds on the expertise gained from numerous iterations of the multi-project management benchmarking study in the private sector to create a first benchmarking in the public sector. This is intended to provide a deeper understanding of the current state of (multi-)project management maturity as well as the specific challenges, sources of problems and demands in the German public sector, and to provide a basis for follow-up studies.

The target group of the study are public sector organizations (public authorities, public institutions, …) whose work is being done, at least in part, over several simultaneous projects.

Research objective

• Identification and demonstration of best practices of project portfolio and multi-project management in the public context
• Identification of individual strengths and improvement potentials of the participating institutions
• Identification of current trends and developments in multi-project management in the public sector
• Adaptation & further development of public project management standards

Added value for participating organizations

• Free participation in the first MPM benchmarking study in the public sector
• Individualized evaluation of each participating organization's MPM performance compared to top and low performers in the study
• Final report with critical success factors and portfolio-specific recommendations for action
• A scientifically proven questionnaire as a tool for further internal evaluation