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IPMA ITALY Journal of Applied Project Management
                              Volume 1 no. 3 (October 2015)

organization are limited to the divisions    and from the perspective of
of stakeholder functions and posts. The
divisions can’t adapt to the change of       governance, project roles can be
the responsibilities in different stages of
project life-cycle, nor do they reflect      divided into four basic governance
the nature of project management
activities.                                  roles  "planning",  "operating",

     Projects are facing the situation       "maintaining", "monitoring". The
that task is unique and creative, and
the environment is changeable. The           "planning" roles are the departments
static post system is not enough to
deal with the changeable project             and personnel that put forward the
tasks, so enterprises should transform
the system that resources belonging to       project requirements and project
departments into the system that
project roles can be dynamically             implementation plans; the "operating"
dispatched, so as to improve the
efficiency and reliability of project        roles are the departments and
governance. There are some problems
to be solved in project governance,          personnel that meet the requirements
such as how to make stakeholders act
the roles quickly, find out problems         of the “planning” roles; the
quickly, come up with solutions
quickly, submit project outcomes             "maintaining" roles are the
quickly, and how to withdraw from the
project after the completion of the          departments and personnel that
task successfully. Exploring the
dynamic dispatching method for               provide resources and tools for the
project resources is very important to
realize the success of project               “operating” roles; the "monitoring"
governance.
                                             roles are the departments and
     Project role is a combination of
project stakeholders' responsibilities       personnel that monitor, manage and
and rights for undertaking project
tasks. "Role" refers to a person or          evaluate the behaviors of the other
organization, as well as some
subsidiary responsibilities and rights.      three roles (Ding Ronggui, Fei
The social network composed of
project stakeholders is a network of         Zhengguo, 2008).
responsibility and interest, in which
there are both requirement and               After determining the roles of
responsibility to each other and the
responsibility is related to the strategy    governance, the governance
for implementing the requirement.
Around the project stakeholder               relationship, which means the
requirement and key success factors
                                             relationship between the roles and the

                                             responsibilities of the main bodies,

                                             should be established. The relationship

                                             between project governance roles is a

                                             kind of regulatory relationship based

                                             on social network. These relationships

                                             can be established through formal

                                             contracts (project task book, business

                                             contract, etc.). They also can be

                                             established through informal contracts

                                             (association plan of internal

                                             organization, team psychological

                                             contract, etc.). How to establish the

                                             relationships between project

                                             governance roles and how to form a

                                             reliable alliance between project

                                             stakeholders are very important. After

                                             the project is over, it is vital to form

                                             reusable knowledge to resolve the risks

                                             of future projects effectively. The

                                             definition of risk management roles,

                                             determining the control method for risk

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