Project Management and its Tools in Practice in the Czech Republic

Abstract The paper deals with the problems of project management and project management tools in practice in the Czech Republic. The introduction describes the essence of project management and characterizes its key tools. Special attention is paid to the analysis and evaluation of the current level of project management and exploitation of the project management tools in the Czech Republic. The paper presents and compares the outcomes of the research carried out by organization Spolecnost pro projektove rizeni with some other global researches from the points of view of project outcomes monitoring, success of project implementation, awareness of project management tools, utilization of project management tools, including software tools, project management knowledge and the reasons why some project implementations fail.

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