Company-wide project management: the planning and control of programmes of projects of different type

摘要

It has been perceived wisdom that where an organisation is undertaking a portfolio of projects, they should use a common approach to the management of all projects in the programme. Pre- sumed benefits include comparable progress reporting, and consistent calculation of resource requirements enabling sharing of resources. People can also move freely between projects with- out having to learn a new management approach. However, research undertaken by the authors show that people more often report better results for their projects when they tailor the pro- cedures to the type of project they are working on, matching the procedures to the size of the project, or the type of resource working on the project. In this paper, the authors report their findings and give an explanation of why, on many projects, it may be better to tailor procedures. Since it is still worthwhile to obtain some consistency of project management approach to achieve the benefits above, the authors suggest how to adopt a consistent approach at the stra- tegic level, while tailoring the procedures at the tactical or detail level. They give an example of the use of this approach on the planning and control of a project from their own experience.