Reza Rahimi - B.Sc in HSE Engineering, Petroleum University of Technology, Abadan - Iran
Sepideh Tavassoli - M.A in EMBA, Science and Research branch of Islamic Azad University,
Navid Mollaee - M.A in MBA-Strategy, University of Science and Culture, Tehran - Iran

Benchmarking is used as an evaluating tool to assess the management skills in project management. Therefore, when benchmarking the work of project managers the underlying variables of the project's organizational structure should be included in the evaluation. Literatures show an increasing interest for the use of benchmarking to improve the project environment. The overall purpose of this paper was focused on suggesting the best ways of adapting project environment to benchmarking techniques. So an organization can better use benchmarking for improving its project management. The paper content falls into 2 categories: The first part’s objective was to show the importance of using benchmarking in project management. Moreover, this part is focused on benchmarking, types of benchmarking, reviewing the project, project management and the relation between them as well. The second part is dedicated to identify metrics for project management processes that can be looked up and used as an aid for potential benchmarkers to define metrics for their own special project management processes. By benchmarking leading companies many firms have experienced significant success in upgrading their organizational capabilities. As benchmarking can significantly improve the performance of managing companies, similar development can lead in the performance of managing projects.

Benchmarking, Management, Project Performance, Project Management