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Enterprise Architecture Approach for Project Management and Project-Based Organizations: A Review

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  • Edison Atencio

    (School of Industrial Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Av. Brasil 2241, Valparaíso 2340000, Chile
    School of Civil Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Av. Brasil 2147, Valparaíso 2340000, Chile
    Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Via Lambruschini 4b, Bovisa, 20156 Milan, Italy)

  • Guillermo Bustos

    (School of Industrial Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Av. Brasil 2241, Valparaíso 2340000, Chile)

  • Mauro Mancini

    (Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Via Lambruschini 4b, Bovisa, 20156 Milan, Italy)

Abstract

Project-based organizations (PBOs) derive income from conducting projects for their clients. Maintaining the most effective and efficient project governance style is an ongoing process for these organizations as the context continuously changes. Enterprise architecture (EA) is a systemic approach that supports organizations in modeling and describing themselves in different layers, such as strategy, business, application, and technology. This literature review describes the current state of EA usage in improving and quickly revising project management governance in PBOs to benefit practitioners and researchers for an integrated view of EA, PM, and PBO, and identification of future research gaps. This review used an EA model composed of layers as an analytical framework. The extracted bibliometric and content data from selected articles were processed using the VOSviewer tool for identifying and understanding the relationships between main concepts through network mapping. The selected articles are oriented to internal organization projects, mainly in information technology (IT). The need to align projects with business is highlighted, with EA positioned as a governance tool. It was found that application of EA in PBOs is rare. A trend toward using popular PM and EA frameworks, such as PMBOK and ArchiMate, was observed.

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  • Edison Atencio & Guillermo Bustos & Mauro Mancini, 2022. "Enterprise Architecture Approach for Project Management and Project-Based Organizations: A Review," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(16), pages 1-25, August.
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