The Governance of Project Management

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The Governance of Project Management

by Jim Harris

May 13, 2002


In my article, The Project Manager is the Keystone to Successful Delivery, I discussed the role of the project manager in meeting the challenges of project plan development, project execution, fiscal management, project communications, risk and scope management/change control. However, there is another rarely mentioned component spanning the entire spectrum of delivery management that the knowledgeable project manager must either as buyer or seller address on a daily basis--contract management.

 

I can tell you horror stories about poor contract management--lack of a paper trail of correspondence, no central office of record for project documentation, lost documents detailing key meetings and desired contract adjustments, etc.



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