Engineering Project

Management
 Program Management

• Program Management harmonizes its projects and program

components and controls interdependencies in order to realize
specified benefits
• develops and implements plans to achieve a specific scope that is
driven by the objectives of the program or portfolio it is subjected
to and, ultimately, to organizational strategies
 Program Manager

Program
Manager

Project A Project B Project C Project D

 Program and Portfolio Management

• Portfolio management aligns with organizational strategies by

selecting the right programs or projects, prioritizing the work, and
providing the needed resources.
• Portfolios are a collection of any of the following:
Projects
Programs
Sub-portfolios
Operations managed as a group to achieve strategic objectives
 Project Management Office (PMO)

• Project Management Office (PMO) A management structure that

standardizes the project related governance and systems used in
an organization.
• Providing templates, standards, best practices, training, lessons
learned to projects (Supportive)
• Monitoring compliance to organizational standards (Controlling)
• Overseeing and controlling Projects (Directive)
 Ethics

• How do you define ethics and what is ethical behavior?

 Key Areas of Ethical Concern

• Conflict of Interest
• Environmental and Safety
• Quality and Product Liability
• Honesty and Truthfulness
• Treating others Fairly
• Bribery and Compliance
• Ownership
 Guiding Questions

How do we know we are acting and operating in an ethical

manner? The four guiding questions we can ask ourselves:
1. Are our ethics based on a set of personal values?
2. Are they benchmarked against socially acceptable norms
3. Are our values and standards consistent with our chosen
environment?
4. Are we applying our values and standards consistently to all
situations?
Organizational Most ethical trade-offs are conflicts between two
Standards desirable ends: economic benefit versus social
performance.
Professional
Code of Ethics
Example Organizational Ethical Values
Legal Codes and
• Integrity
Standards
• Honesty
Personal Values
• Fidelity
• Charity
• Self-Discipline
• Responsibility
PMI® Code of Ethics

• Vision and Applicability

• Do what is right and honorable
• All PMI members and those who hold a PMI Certification
 Four Aspirational Standards

• Responsibility
• Respect
• Fairness
• Honesty
 Responsibility

• Take ownership for all decisions regardless of outcome

• Make decisions and take actions based on the interests of society,
public
safety, and the environment
• Accept only those assignments consistent with our back ground,
experience, skills and qualifications
• Protect confidential and proprietary information
• Fulfill our commitments
 Respect

• Show a high regard for yourself, others, and the resources

entrusted to you
• Diverse perspectives and views are encouraged and valued
• Negotiate in good faith
• Do not use our position to the benefit of ourselves at the expense
of others
 Fairness

• Make decisions and act impartially and objectively free from

competition, self-interest, prejudice, and favoritism
• Disclose any conflicts of interest
 Honesty

• Understand the truth and act truthful in manner in both

communication and behavior
Thankyou! 