Benchmarking: An Effective Tool in Improving Project Management Performance

Abstract

The need for efficient project management is an important issue for organizations recently. Managers and decisions makers have put their efforts to find a way to increase the performance of project management to achieve goals effectively. Benchmarking became the tool to make this performance improvement. In this article, a review was done on benchmarking and its application in project management field. Previous researches conducted on benchmarking project management performance were explained. In addition, the merits and limitations of each model were summarized in table to avoid their weakness points in future work.