Policymakers should adhere to project management practices – PMI Chief

Most of the projects in Sri Lanka are not complete according to the time plan due to stakeholder and political issues but there is ample opportunity to improve and develop it, Saman Kandanearachchi, President PMI Sri Lanka Chapter opined at a press briefing held in Colombo recently.

He noted that project management practice in Sri Lanka was at average levels, but there was room to improve these practices and deliver benefits to the shareholders and stakeholders.

“There is a stakeholder and business value to every project and there is opportunity by following the best practices to add more value to the business as well as the country.”

He emphasised that the country’s policymakers should adhere to project management practices such as scope, time, cost, quality, resource, risk, stakeholder management and communication which are part and parcel of project management.

“So, we advocate and advise policy makers to follow all these best practices related to project management,” he insisted. Kandanearachchi however said certain people have followed it, especially the private sector. But in the government sector less people follow it properly in a professional manner.

“We request government sector policymakers to understand the importance of project management discipline and best practices in project management and they need to inculcate and implement project management practices in the government sector too.

Therefore, the government, government institutions and project managers need to advocate more emphasis in project management practices.” He said the purpose of having Awards Night is to recognize project managers who work in a professional manner. Project management is an important profession where they do start the project from the beginning with the scope, time and the cost.

There are parameters or kind of best practices of following scope, time and cost which involves risk, quality, human resource, communication and stakeholder management.

He said those were the knowledge factors that every project manager need to follow, and they wanted to recognize those professionals who follow these practices as the best project manager and purpose of this awards is to recognize those project managers and their work and give recognition to them which would be a kind of a professional recognition for them which will be useful in their future business endeavors as well as their careers.

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Project Management Conference, Awards Night on Aug. 16

The Project Management Conference and the Awards Night hosted by the Project Management Institute (PMI) Sri Lanka Chapter is scheduled to be held on August 16, 2023 at the Kingsbury Hotel Colombo under the theme “Navigating Complexity Strategies for Successful Project Management”.

Two separate events have been organized under the same auspices, the National Project Management Conference 2023 which is open to the general public. Over 400 professionals in the project management arena including C-level officers of leading conglomerates will participate in the event and the National Project Management Excellence Awards 2023 which is the awards ceremony of the PMI.

National level projects that were undertaken would also be recognized at the event. The conference would cover 8 hours of information on project management related discussions and presentations spanning two days.

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