  Nowadays much is written about how to manage projects, but too little on what
really happens in project actuality. Project Actuality came out in the
Rethinking Project Management (RPM) agenda in 2006 and it aims at understanding
what really happens at project context. To be able to understand project
actuality phenomenon, we first need to get a better comprehension on its
definition and discover how to observe it and analyse it. This paper presents
the results of the systematic review conducted to collect evidence on Project
Actuality. The research focused on four search engines, in publications from
1994 to 2013. Among others, the study concludes that project actuality has been
analysed by several methods and techniques, mostly on large organization and
public sectors, in Northern Europe. The most common definitions, techniques,
and tips were identified as well as the intent of transforming the results in
knowledge.
