Sustainable Project Management Using Reference Models of Organizational Behavior

3. Project Governance

The role of project governance is to provide leadership and a decision making framework (Argwal & Rathod, 2006) that aligns the accountabilities and responsibilities associated with the organization’s business activities with corporate governance in long term sustainability. This is a critical element of projects as it provides robust and repeatable frameworks to govern a company. The decision making framework is supported by three pillars – structure, people and information. The structure refers to project structure such as steering committee (board), stakeholders and process.

Garland (2009) outlines the logical steps needed to establish a project governance framework for a project or organization. Beginning with the problems typical of ineffective project governance (see Table 1).