CHAPTER 4

The Role of Portfolio, Program, and Project Management in Organizational Change

By Bryan R. Shelby, BA, CSM, PMP, PgMP, PfMP

Abstract

Each of the separate disciplines of portfolio, program, and project management has a key role in effecting change in organizations. This chapter starts with a quick review of these three disciplines, explores how they relate to one another, provides an example for organizational change used throughout the chapter, and then gives an in-depth discussion of the contribution of each discipline to each of the five phases of the change life cycle: formulating, planning, implementing, managing the transition of, and sustaining change in organizations, relating each one to the example.

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