Performance-Based Project Management

CHAPTER 4

The Five Governing Processes of Project Management

With the Five Principles and Five Practices under our belts, we are almost ready to start managing projects. First, we need the process management framework to help us apply these principles and practices. To be useful, this framework has to be general purpose; that is, it must be applicable to any type of project in any domain. We approach this process framework through project governance,¹ which is the mechanism that defines the decision rights for the project and determines how those decisions are made using the principles and practices. Decision rights set the “rules” for how choices pertaining to planning, developing, and executing the project are made by the project’s participants. ...