Governance model for integrating organizational project management (OPM)‎ with corporate practices

Abstract EN

Governance is becoming more important for sustaining success and ensuring continuous delivery of business value to organizations.

Most organizations are competing to deliver the highest level of service and attaining stakeholders’ satisfaction.

Implementing sound organizational project management governance framework can enable the kind of visibility and control that are essential to successfully deliver the expected benefits from projects and portfolios.

The market survey conducted by the authors revealed that the current level of integration between organizational project management (OPM) and other relevant practices is not enough and there is a need to have a unified integrated model that links OPM with other governance components (practices/systems) such as strategy management, enterprise risk management, internal audit, Quality management, performance management, business excellence and lessons learned.

The survey also concluded that there is a good opportunity for automating the model to achieve better visibility and effective resource usage.

Having proposed the model, it needed validation, which was done through implementing the model in organizations through automation projects.

The implementation resulted in some changes in the model to achieve the required levels of accountability, responsibility, and transparency.

These changes were incorporated into the model and were reflected in its modified version.

Finally, the paper highlighted the recommended improvements that would enhance the future implementation of the model.