so that an international comparison can be made between the views and practices of people active in PM in those threecountries. These three particular countries have been selected because they areEnglish-speaking and comparable in terms of level of development, educationalstandards and international reach and though they are geographically very distant fromeach other they share many cultural similarities.Although many survey findings relating to PM practice have been published overthe last few years they have tended to focus on particular aspects of PM such as earnedvalue management as a project performance evaluation technique (Bower and Finegan,2009) or the use of PM information systems (Raymond and Bergeron, 2008) or onspecific sectors such as construction (Liu and Low, 2011; Mojahed and Aghazadeh,2008). This survey looks at a range of aspects and is not confined to one sector