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IPMA ITALY Journal of Applied Project Management
Volume 1 no. 3 (October 2015)
consider cooperation between 4.1 Definition for project
governance infrastructure
organization and resources, and
Enterprises lead and participate in
identify the ways to undertake roles many projects during their
development. These projects involve
and responsibilities. Different different business areas and have
different objectives, therefore they
stakeholders enter and quit in different have a big conflict in the demand for
human, financial, material and other
stages of project life cycle. But they resources. How to effectively manage
multiple dynamic and temporary
have to experience the iterative projects and use management's
"regularity" to deal with the
process in requirements, roles, risks and "uniqueness" of projects are a
challenge for enterprises. In this case,
relationships. At the same time, a stable and reusable project
governance infrastructure becomes
dynamical stakeholders need to play extremely important to enterprises.
Project governance infrastructure is a
governance roles as “planning”, set that can provide reusable
conditions for multiple functional
“operating”, “maintaining”, and projects. These conditions can improve
the efficiency and reliability of project
“control/monitor”. The unified process management and enhance the
collaboration among multiple projects.
interacts with upper four roles. The The features of project governance
infrastructure are its stability and
interaction moves project governance reusability. Stability suggests that
project governance infrastructure is
forward with the evolution of life cycle, persistent, and reusability suggests that
it is the collection of processes,
and achieves project objectives knowledge, technologies and
methods. Enterprise is a system, and
finally. many projects constitute the
enterprises’ subsystems. Each project
4. Project governance subsystem has different objectives and
infrastructure operation modes. If projects lack of
effectively integrated management, it
In the complex and volatile market would not get the effective coupling
environment, enterprises widely and integration, then it will form the
recognize that the value of project is disordered dissipative structure and
responding to changes effectively. generate a greater entropy (Mao
Business circles raise the waves of Daowei, Ren Peiyu,2005). The purpose
project management, and some of building project governance
enterprises even appear the “over infrastructure is to offer a coupling
project” tendency that they make all
management activities move closer to 41
project. However, it is apparent that
enterprises lead and participate in
many projects, which bring nothing to
enterprises’ scale efficiency. There
have been many cases of failure,
which affect the overall business
operations. To solve these problems, it
is necessary to establish and rely on
project governance infrastructure
(Ding Ronggui,2013).
