A Systematic Literature Review and Meta-analysis on Project Management Platform

Every project implementation must involve its management process. Project management is a system that enables organizations to manage their projects. The development of information technology encourages the development of techniques and methodologies used in project management. This study aims to provide a detailed insight into the trends of project management with systematic literature review and has a particular focus on the project management platform. Therefore, it is necessary to understand the features, technology and architecture of the project management platform. Meta-analysis is needed to determine the optimal layer of project management platform architecture with principal component analysis techniques. Trends in the project management platform literature were analyzed from 2000 to 2018. The findings from the analysis highlighted some of the generic features that project management platforms should have such as schedule/monitoring management, process management, configuration/user management, document management, financial/cost management and resources management. By doing principal component analysis, the number of optimal layers in the project management platform is obtained four: application layer, service layer, data integration layer and management layer.