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 to 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.