How can Project Management Sector help boost our countries economy?

George,

If everything was done according the a good Project Management practice, that's wishful thinking.

All project would be having clear benefits. Lot less ressources would be wasted in poor or useless project.

The first thing is just valuable project would be done! That might be subject of discussion. Project finance with some government money would be selected for the true impact on economy.

Hi George! What I meant was this:
In my eyes project management is a tool that helps you to deliver a project in efficient way. You maximize your chances to deliver the required results whatever it is supposed to be.
When it comes to boosting economy I think it’s important to have the right ideas and understanding of the situation of that particular country, opportunities it has, global economics etc. here we come to managing of the portfolio of ideas because you don’t want to have various ideas competing with each other, being counterproductive, you want or have synergies, you want to set the right priorities because resources will be always limited.
My question was if you consider this under project management too or not?
And then once you believe you work with the right set of ideas and you turn them into projects than the project management comes and helps you to implement them.
So if you would give me just set of skilled project managers and methodology I don’t believe it would be enough. It would be definitely needed for the implementation but are those project managers supposed to come with the right ideas? You rather need experts to bring the ideas. So then project management is a tool for me to help boosting the economy but not the primary driver who cause the boost.

Yes, sure!

In case of my country (Angola), is through education and communication.

1. I can start at school, then universities because is where the opinion will be made later.
2. Making sure that public opinion is aware that growth can be achieve with best practices in public sector.
3. To Politicians, by informing what they could gain by enforcing the best project management practices and where to find these practices and how to measure the benefits.

George -

Beyond project delivery, I'd hope that a good PM will influence sponsors and other funding authorities to make the right investments which will further the country's economy. PMs will rarely be in a portfolio decision making authority role but they can certainly develop strong relationships with portfolio decision makers to increase the likelihood of worthwhile spend.

Kiron

Lenka - I do understand.

I just feel that at a higher level, there should be something our sector (PM) could do to cause a major impact in our society economy.

But I do understand what you say.

George, just to speak from my professional experience. In fact I’ve never a project manager by a title. But I could not do any of my jobs without being a skilled project manager. My tasks were always about driving and delivering a change to improve the business. I had to develop great understanding of the business I was part of, be able to understand the stakeholders and the senior executives and to transform their needs and visions into specific goals and projects. And then I oversaw the execution. I always had a lot of power to drive the change and influence things but where was the power coming from? I believe it was from the ability to be the one who contributes to forming the vision. The execution itself was helping me too but mostly in creating the trust that I can ensure that the vision becomes reality. This is I think the core contribution of a good and high quality project management. The trust needed to be appointed to execute the change and then do it right. But if you want to drive the change you must vision it. And for that I’m really not sure that being a project manager is enough. Or maybe it is and this is the concept you want to change?