Governance of Portfolios, Programs, and Projects: A Practice Guide

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INTRODUCTION

1.1 The Purpose and Need for this Guide

This practice guide provides guidance to practitioners and organizations for the governance of portfolios, programs, and projects. This practice guide strives to advance the topic of portfolio, program, and project governance by capturing practices from conceptualization to implementation, which practitioners and organizations should find informative and useful. This guide presents the following:

• Reference for portfolio, program, and project governance for senior executives, functional managers, as well as senior portfolio, program, and project management leadership;
• Definition, implementation, and management of effective portfolio, program, project, and organizational project management ...