Pillars and Principles of the Project Governance

Abstract:

Project governance is the management framework within which project decisions are made. Project governance is a critical element of any project since while the accountabilities and responsibilities associated with an organization’s business as usual activities are laid down in their organizational governance arrangements, seldom does an equivalent framework exist to govern the development of its capital investments (projects). For instance, the organization chart provides a good indication of who in the organization is responsible for any particular operational activity the organization conducts. But unless an organization has specifically developed a project governance policy, no such chart is likely to exist for project development activity. Therefore, the role of project governance is to provide a decision making framework that is logical, robust and repeatable to govern an organization’s capital investments. In this way, an organization will have a structured approach to conducting both its business as usual activities and its business change, or project, activities.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 1030-1032)
• Pages: 2593-2596
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.1030-1032.2593
• Online since: September 2014
• Authors: Xuan Liu, Hai Xie*
• Keywords: Pillars, Principles, Project Governance

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