The Value of Project-Selection Methods

Outside of the project charter, the other topic that is greatly emphasized by PMI within the Initiating process is project-selection methods.

PMI feels strongly that organizations should have a formal process for deciding projects to sponsor and for ensuring that projects are supportive of the organization's strategic objectives. In many organizations, some type of senior management steering committee or Program Management Office (PMO) performs this project-evaluation and -selection process.

Project-selection methods are the techniques used to execute this process, and they are organized into two major categories: benefit measurement methods and constrained optimization methods.

The project-selection method(s) ...

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