Corporate project management framework: a higher education approach

• Autor(a) principal: Pinto, Patricia Sofia Sousa
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10362/18255
• topic: Project management; Higher education; Framework; Tool; Domínio/Área Científica::Ciências Sociais::Economia e Gestão

Project management is a growing area, proven to be successful in several industries. This success, led by the implementation of project management practices in a combined framework has been studied along time. However, despite the increase of its acceptance as a profession and the several research done on the topic, many industries still lack project management practices. This is the case of Universities, where risk management, quality management, leadership characteristics and stakeholder management are examples of critical knowledge areas found as essential to be integrated. This work consisted in responding to the need of integrating the mentioned practices, by developing a framework using as a basis the Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge. After the analysis of the several research done on the topic, the result consists in a framework that presents guidelines by the different process groups as well as the outputs for each step. A more complete description on the steps to be taken and an output is provided for the essential activities, namely the stakeholder register, project charter, risk management plan and performing a change request, as well as a schedule plan and cost plan document. This serves as a basis for any project managed and can be adapted to each University so that it can be implemented in the future.