The Project Governance Domain includes the following tasks:
- Implement governance models to drive project outcomes.
- Set up scope governance structures and practices on built environment projects.
- Develop and apply methods, tools and techniques to develop and manage project scope.
To learn about the Project Governance tasks, we recommend exploring the following PMI resources and books:
1. Implement Governance Models to Drive Project Outcomes:
- PMBOK® Guide (7th Edition):
- Project Governance: The PMBOK® Guide provides an overview of project governance frameworks that help ensure project outcomes align with organizational goals. It covers the roles of governance in decision-making, risk management, and oversight.
- Tailoring and Customization: Different sections of the PMBOK® Guide discuss how to tailor governance models based on project size, complexity, and organizational context, ensuring effective management and outcome delivery.
- The Standard for Program Management: This standard elaborates on governance in the context of program management. It discusses governance structures, roles, and responsibilities in driving successful program and project outcomes. The standard includes themes like decision gates, escalation procedures, and performance tracking, which are vital for implementing governance models.
- PMI’s Governance of Portfolios, Programs, and Projects: A Practice Guide: This practice guide is dedicated to governance practices in portfolios, programs, and projects. It provides detailed methodologies for setting up and managing governance models that drive successful project outcomes.
2. Set Up Scope Governance Structures and Practices on Built Environment Projects:
- PMBOK® Guide (7th Edition):
- Scope Management: While the PMBOK® Guide covers scope management broadly, it also includes governance considerations in managing scope, such as setting up control mechanisms, defining scope baselines, and ensuring alignment with project objectives.
- Integration Management: This section may also be relevant, as it covers how scope governance integrates with overall project governance.
- Practice Standard for Project Configuration Management: This standard may also cover scope governance, particularly in managing changes and ensuring they align with project objectives.
- Practice Standard for Work Breakdown Structures (WBS): The WBS is a key tool in managing project scope, and this standard provides methodologies and practices for developing a WBS that aligns with governance structures in built environment projects.
3. Develop and Apply Methods, Tools, and Techniques to Develop and Manage Project Scope:
- PMBOK® Guide (7th Edition):
- Scope Management Chapter: This chapter provides comprehensive guidance on developing project scope, including methods like scope definition, Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) creation, scope validation, and scope control. It details the tools and techniques required to manage scope effectively throughout the project lifecycle.
- Tailoring Considerations: The guide offers advice on tailoring scope management practices to fit project-specific needs, ensuring effective scope management across different types of projects.
- Practice Standard for Work Breakdown Structures (WBS): This practice standard is focused on creating and managing a WBS, which is essential for defining and managing project scope. It provides detailed methodologies and best practices for using the WBS to manage scope effectively.
- PMI’s Practice Standard for Project Estimating: Estimating is closely related to scope management, and this standard includes tools and techniques that can be applied in the scope management process, particularly in estimating resources and effort required to deliver the defined scope.
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