Sustainability in Project Management Practices:
Sustainability is recognized as one of the most important challenges of our time. Following the success of Al Gore’s ‘inconvenient truth’, awareness seems to be growing that a change of mindset is needed, both in behavior as in policies. How can we develop prosperity without compromising the future? The concept of sustainability has also been linked to project management. How can projects add to sustainable development?, but also, what does sustainability mean for projects and project management?
Assignment Details:
Task:
Write a report which appraises the current issues surrounding the integration of sustainability objectives to project objectives and t project management. To support your points, you can use both primary data and secondary data. Evidence based on primary data collected would typically consist of interviewing 2 to 3 project managers. Evidence based on secondary data would typically consist of references to the literature and other data sources. In doing this task, you will be in fact analysing sustainability challenges in business projects, taking into account stakeholders objectives and ethical issues related to possible conflict of interests. It is also an opportunity to discuss to which extent sustainability objectives are considered, for example, in project reporting and in value management. Overall, the focus of the task is on how sustainability is incorporated into project management practices. The report should be 3000 words long. Title, author, references, and appendices are NOT included in the word count. The report should be structured in sections, with numbered headings and sub-headings, and pagination in order to enhance clarity.
Referencing should follow the MMU Harvard style.