ABSTRACT
Meta-management of projects refers to important aspects of project management over which project managers usually have little or no influence. For example, the general approach to be taken and preparedness of an organization to perform projects may depend on others-senior managers and directors. In other words, project managers are constrained in what they can accomplish, and the likelihood of project success partly depends on measures taken by the organization. Such measures, the first topic of the chapter, include project management maturity, project management methodology, knowledge management, and the project management office (PMO). Frequently projects are undertaken as part of a larger agenda-programs, and these require their own kind of management, program management, which is the second topic of the chapter.
