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IPMA ITALY Journal of Applied Project Management
Volume 1 no. 3 (October 2015)
As a theory and approach to would cause a huge obstacle for
improve project controllability, project project governance. The purpose of
management have gained a great clarifying and defining the
attention from 1940s. With the conceptions of project governance is
changing circumstances, some new not to classify the floras in the jungle,
organizations, like virtual organization, but to help researches find a way of
dynamic alliance, boundaryless passing through the jungle and finally
organization, are born and inter- to acquire a clear project governance
organizational cooperation projects concept system. This paper would
are increasing. These changes have answer the following questions: What
brought an increasing challenge to are the connotations of project and
project management. The current project governance? How do we gain
management in project field includes the project objectives? How do we
the traditional project management find the approach to implementing
conducted by project manager, the project objectives? How do we
program management and portfolio monitor the process of project
management that all conduct project management effectively? How do we
management from the perspective of establish an effective project
a single organization. These three governance system?
forms of project management
research all could not provide strong 1. Definition for project
theory and approach support to
improve the success rate of inter- Human is in a drastic changing
organizational projects. The reasons times, enterprises have met some
why projects are easy to fail to a large difficulties like business areas
extent are limitations of traditional adjustment, customers’ requirements
project management dealing with alteration, staff unceasing turnover,
inter-organizational projects, because etc. Enterprises have to possess an
it is tough for project manager to ability of integrating resources rapidly
acquire the resources required by for completing a new task to survive
implementing the inter-organizational and develop in this drastic changing
projects. To acquire the theory and times. Project is a work approach to
approach to resolve the difficulties of dealing with changes, a main means
gaining, effective and reliable using of providing customers’ new products
resources, the project governance and services unceasingly, an
emerges as the times require. infrastructure of integrating human
resources dynamically. Project could
The researches on project examine whether enterprises have
governance are in the ascendant. abilities of surviving and developing in
And the researches on some the changing times, and project is the
definitions of project governance are source of enterprises’ management
like lots of floras which compose a problems.
jungle. This “Jungle Phenomenon”
represents the prosperity of project Project and project governance is
governance while it also reflects the the foundation of project governance
researches’ ambiguities. If these concept system. Understanding them
ambiguities could not be clarified, it
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