Project Management in Developing Countries

Abstract

• Initiation of the Idea of Project Management in Developed Countries since 1950.

• Start of the concept of Project Management as a profession in Egypt in the Seventies.

• The role of the Management Engineering Society MES in developing Project Management expertise from 1980 until now.

• Examples of the activities undertaken by MES in the field of education and training of project managers, in organizing seminars, symposiums and workshops, both on the national and international level and in maintaining a lively contact to the International Project Management Association INTERNET and to other national societies.

• Review of future activities mainly to extend the scope of Project Management from the Engineering and Contracting industries to non-conventional applications of project management techniques, such as factory overhaul, management information systems, establishing quality control systems .... etc.

This will open the way for Project Management to increase the efficiency of the existing enterprises over and above its main role in conventional project management.