- It places more emphasis on how a project fits into the broader corporate strategy and Environmental Sustainability & Governance (ESG).
- It focuses on Organizational Governance — not just how the project team works, but how the company supports the project work.
- Project decisions are made considering the contrasting perspectives across the organization and influencing factors, ensuring that outputs lead to more sustainable and effective business outcomes.
Sustainability
The 8th Edition makes Governance, Influencing Factors, and Processes as criteria of project success, which is “Sustainable Business Values.”
Complexity and Systems Thinking
The 8th Edition tends more into Systems Thinking. It provides more robust tools for managing project processes where the requirements and solutions may be highly volatile and intertwined with influencing factors and global systems. Hence use of hybrid methodology with tailoring options.