ABSTRACT

The term ‘methodology’ is popular but inaccurate. The ‘ology’ suffix should refer to the study of a topic; hence zoology, psychology and pharmacology.

So consider this question: what is the difference between a project management method and a project management methodology? The answer, dear reader, is simply the price. The theory says that because the name is long and sounds complicated, more organizations will be happy to pay larger sums for a purpose-built, complex sounding methodology than they would for a plain old method.