The Handbook of Project Management, 6th Edition

Chapter 38 Organizational project management

Shankar Sankaran

DOI: 10.4324/9781003274179-43

Introduction

How an organization can achieve its strategy effectively through projects has been a matter of concern for both project management researchers and practitioners over the years. One way proposed to address this is to link an organization’s strategy to projects systematically by managing the 3Ps – portfolios, programs, and projects – hierarchically. It also became clear that strategic execution through the 3Ps had to be governed well, in line with corporate governance. To develop this integrated capability by combining the 3Ps and their governance Drouin, Müller, and Sankaran (2017, p. 13) proposed Organizational Project Management (OPM) ...