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Project governance and Project Management Office (PMO)
Project governance and Project Management Office (PMO)

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Acknowledgements

This course was written by Kay S. Bromley.

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Figure 1: adapted from  Murray, A. (2011) White Paper: PRINCE2 and Governance, November 2011, London, The Stationary Office.

Figure 2: from: ISO (2012) ISO 21500 Guidance on Project Management, London, International Organization for Standardizationhttp://www.iso.org/ iso/ home/ standards.htm  

Figure 3: Adapted from Crawford, L. et al. (2008) ‘Governance and support in the sponsoring of projects and programs’, Project Management Journal, Vol. 39, Issue no. S1, Supplement, pp. S43-S55, doi: 10.1002/pmj.20059.

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