Do project managers need an operations research support indeed? (A survey on polish project managers attitude towards operations research methods and tools)

Project Management methodology contains a set of formal tools based on Operations Research background. Most of them are expected to be well known to project decision-makers from handbooks and professional or scientific papers. The aim of this paper was to present results of the survey made on the group of professional project managers and project-related decision-makers. In this survey their consciousness, need, and field of applications of operations research tools in project management area was investigated.