I. INTRODUCTION
IN MANY organizations, the project assignment of projects
to project managers is often considered by management to be
amajor challenge [1], [2]. It must be done appropriately since assigning
the right project manager to a project is one of the critical
success factors in project management [3]–[5]. Despite the fact
that project assignment is important, and inappropriate assignments
may lead to a decrease in the project success rate, which
may negatively impact the organizational performance, the research
in this area is fairly limited. Several researchers, however,
have proposed assignment methodologies [6]–[8], which
use project requirements and project managers’ skills as assignment
criteria. Our concern is that assigning projects by using
only these criteriamay not be sufficient.We argue that the extant
literature has established the fact that project manager assignments
affect the performance of projects, project managers, and
the organization. Other criteria, e.g., strategic importance of
projects to the organization and the organizational limitations