Green project management incorporates environmental stewardship into the project management process. It looks beyond traditional deliverables to improve sustainability. The challenge is making projects more environmentally friendly throughout the project life cycle. A green project manager considers environmental impacts in all phases, from planning recycling and reducing energy use, to monitoring progress on green objectives and reusing materials after completion. While balancing environmental and other goals, even small changes by project managers can have a positive cumulative impact on the environment over time.

1. introducing
Green Project Management
Instructor
Eng. Ashraf Al-Astal

2. What is Green Project Management?

3. Getting Started
Green Project Management
“is the idea of incorporating
environmental stewardship
into project management
processes”.

4. Getting Started
Looking Beyond
Look beyond the traditional deliverables of your
project.
What might you do in terms of improving your project,
its product, its long-term outcome, and thus true
sustainability?

5. Getting Started
Specific
Measurable
Attainable
Realistic
Timely
and
Environmentally Responsible
Get SMARTER about Project Management

6. Enhancing Project Management
The challenge is:
How to make such projects more
environmentally friendly?
How can a project manager integrate
environmentally conscious decisions
within the project management life-cycle
for a classic project?

7. The degree to which an organization
considers the environmental (green)
aspects of their project throughout
the project life cycle and beyond.
Getting Started
Greenality

8. Getting Started
Greenality

9. Getting Started
In some projects, it is easy
to see the impact of “being
green” like:
- consuming less energy
for a process,
- manufacturing using
recycled materials,
- reducing scrap,
- constructing eco-friendly
building.

10. The 5 Process Management Groups

11. InitiationPhase
Initiation phase considerations:
 Incorporate environmental cost/benefit in business
cases and proposals
 Add 'effect on environment' as an element in all project
charters
 Incorporate applicable corporate Green program goals
into project's goals
 Consider defining/aligning green project objectives and
measures that will drive the behaviors, to those goals
 Bring in the corporate Environmental Department as a
project stake holder
 Obtain e-sign offs unless required for legal purposes

12. Planning Phase Considerations
 Appoint a Green Champion for the
project
 Solicit suggestions from project team
and stakeholders for Green ideas
 Include environmental
impact/sustainability in
purchasing/procurement process
 Turn to recycling as an alternative for
tear-down and disposal
 Plan a project recycle day to help
reprocess personal PCs, cell phones
and other electronics
Planning Phase

13.  Lead as ‘Green Project Manager ’ by example
 Hand over ‘green appreciation points’ to the most ‘Green’ stakeholder
 Drive optimal use of resources by publishing "Green Project
Guidelines":
Printing Meeting Travel Recycle
Energy
Use

14. Execution Phase
 Make project documentation ‘soft’
to the extent possible
 Recycle used paper, batteries, etc.
 Encourage team to reduce printing
of emails and project related
documentation
 Discourage printing of meeting
notices; use smart
phones/blackberrys to sync up
calendars
 Use double sided printing and photo
copying
 Utilize the black & white printer
more than color one
Printing

15. Execution Phase
 Balance the use of face-to-face
meetings and the use conference
calls & video conferencing
 Email meeting related
documentation to all attendees
instead of printing paper copies for
every one
 Avoid printing more than needed
paper copies of documentation for
meetings
 Promote use of projectors when
walking through reports and records
instead of using hard copies
Meetings

16. Execution Phase
 Reduce project related travel;
conference calls & video
conferencing instead
 Set-up e-training instead of
traditional classroom setting
 Car pool for off-site meetings
Travel

17. Execution Phase
 Recycle water and pop bottles;
donate refund money to a charity
 Encourage project team to partake
in corporate Annual clean up day
 Purchase recyclable paper for
printing if possible
Recycle

18. Execution Phase
 Ensure all project desktops and
laptops follow energy management
policy
 Persuade team members to switch
off lights/fans and PCs when away
for an extended period or at end of
the day
 Share work spaces so that in total
project team utilizes less real estate
 Consider staggering work hours for
team members to avoid commuting
during rush hours
 Support telecommuting
Energy Use

19. Monitoring & Control Phase
 Collect and openly share project metrics on
environmental stewardship and sustainability
 Identify 'green' proposals as part of solution
alternatives when managing Change.
 Hold Quarterly ‘Green’ review
meetings to assess progress against
Green objectives/metrics and for
fostering innovative ideas
 Make certain project is completed on
time and budget so that more
resources are not used than planned

20. Closing Phase
Closing Phase Considerations
 Reuse project documents and
equipment for the next project
 Add 'green' measures as a review
category for Lessons Learned reviews
 Share project's green contribution
metrics to corporate 'Green' initiatives

21. Green Anywhere

22. Green Anywhere
 Unfortunately, there is neither a simple answer nor a single
solution to the 'green PM movement.'
 Project Managers have a direct effect on their organizations’
future capabilities and can initiate the shift in organizational
thinking that is required.

23. Green Anywhere
 All projects affect the environment in some way, and a project
manager can help by being an effective change agent to mitigate
adverse environmental effects.
 Every project will have to balance the environmental
considerations with other project objectives.

24. Green Anywhere
 If the impact to the environment is constantly in the forefront,
then there is an increased awareness among the decision
makers and project teams.
 Outcomes could be different when the influence of project(s) on
the environment is taken into account and over time the
cumulative effect will result in a positive impact when made by
project managers each day, across the globe.

25. Questions?
introducing
Green Project Management
Instructor
Eng. Ashraf Al-Astal
Supplementary Topic

26. Thank You
Instructor
Eng. Ashraf Al-Astal