In an environment of change, complexity, and uncertainty, many organizations are turning to project management as a vehicle for implementing sophisticated coping strategies. In the process, they're discovering that much of the conventional wisdom about managing projects is marginally relevant at best.

The Center for Project Excellence serves as a resource to these organizations and their managers as they seek to reinvent the project management discipline. Its overall goal is to both shape and chart the course of project management theory and practice by:

• Performing original research on project management and related topics.
• Developing and testing methods and techniques that will further project management and related disciplines.
• Serving as the world's premier repository and clearinghouse on best practices as employed by leading organizations.
• Offering symposia and other forums on key issues and trends.
• Hosting visiting lecturers and researches from industry, government, and academia.
• Publishing information of interest to project management professionals.
• Assessing Competence

The center works with clients to assess the competence of organizations, teams, and individuals. Participants are guided through organizational and self-assessment processes that cover such areas as project management knowledge, people management skills, business related competence, and organizational pathologies. The methods closely follow those in Project Management Competence, a book by UMT Academic Dean J. Davidson Frame.

Contact Us

For more information, contact the center at (703) 516-0035 or info@umtweb.edu.