Methods of Tailoring for Project Management

Project management offers a broad set of tools for the definition, planning, execution and completion of very different projects. There are various more or less generic standards for this toolkit of project management-related roles, processes and methods. These need to be tailored to the specific needs of projects and their respective contexts. This paper provides a broad overview of tailoring approaches in relevant standards and other literature. The systematic literature search revealed very different concepts such as process-oriented or structure-oriented approaches. To provide orientation, the different approaches are categorized and described by way of examples. The results have the potential to help practitioners select an appropriate tailoring approach and to further improve the overall tailoring process in more comprehensive tailoring systems.