The session will discuss the key findings of PMI funded research to address the question of how project, program, and portfolio management (P3M) can be utilized and extended to deal with the climate crisis. The starting point for the research is that projects are at the heart of dealing with the climate crisis but that there isn’t a clarity on what are the implications for the project profession.

1. CLIMATE CHANGE
AND THE EVOLUTION
OF THE PROJECT
MANAGEMENT
PROFESSION
Vedran Zerjav and Efrosyni Konstantinou
Transforming the Net Zero Landscape through the Power of
Projects Conference. 19th-20th October 2021

2. What do we know?
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3. Research Questions
Q1: To what extent are project,
programme and portfolio
management (P3M) practices
being employed in projects that
have clear climate change
objectives (as opposed to those
that do not)?
Q2: To what extent can P3M as
a domain of knowledge and
practice be further developed to
better address the challenge of
climate change?
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4. Insight 1- Expansive PM
8 NOVEMBER 2021
Presentation Title 4
• Projects are not only to
deliver, they drive
strategy and policy
impact
• Practices are not only
about how and when
but also the why, what
and who

5. Insight 2 –
Capability
pendulum
5
Step change
projects for
strategic
direction
setting
Operational
delivery and
execution -
BaU

6. Insight 3- The new old
6
Practices are
same but different:
• Framing
• definition
selection
• staffing

7. Insight 4- So close yet so far
8 NOVEMBER 2021
Presentation Title 7
But it is not easy
We need to break
the ‘iron cage’
through
transformation

8. THANK YOU
VEDRAN ZERJAV
EFROSYNI KONSTANTINOU
v.zerjav@ucl.ac.uk
efrosyni.konstantinou@ucl.ac.uk