Aligning of PM with BPM Life Cycle Stages

The report discusses about the different uses of project management principles and concepts that would be used within the defining of business principles. In the recent times, there have been a huge rise in the competition that is faced by the companies in terms of bringing in developmental activities. These kind of defining of new forms of activities would be highly helpful for projects in order to define their own way and progress in the highly competitive market.

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Abstract
The report discusses about the different uses of project management principles and concepts that
would be used within the defining of business principles. In the recent times, there have been a
huge rise in the competition that is faced by the companies in terms of bringing in developmental
activities. These kind of defining of new forms of activities would be highly helpful for projects
in order to define their own way and progress in the highly competitive market. Hence, in order
to follow such kind of activities, the organisations have an emerging need for developing rich
quality of projects that would be delivered to the customers. With the advancement of
technology, the companies have been in the process of incurring the use of project management
principles that would help in staying in the highly competitive market. Different manager who
are responsible for handling the quality of outputs from the company should be highly focused
over the development of proper form of approach based on project management. These
approaches should be highly clear and thus might fit into the prospects of the organisation.
The basic approaches based on project management is based on defining clear form of aspects in
relation to the project. These include the factors based on proper form of planning, designing,
executing and marketing of the developed products from the company. This research focuses
over the core aspects that would be followed by the organisation in terms of development of
projects. Different organisations have different forms of requirements based on helping the
organisation to make a great form of impact over the quality of the project. Without a proper
form of usage of any form of aspects based on project management, there might occur several
form of critical aspects for the organisation. This might result in loss towards the organisation.
Different kind of aspects should be taken into consideration based on developing a high quality
project. Thus the use of project management principles should be broadly taken into

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consideration. Different stakeholders involved within the company would have high form of
expectation from the project and hence these principles would be helpful in defining the best
form of management if business process activities.

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Table of Contents
1. Introduction..................................................................................................................................4
1.1 Background and Context of the Research Project.................................................................4
1.2 Purpose of the Project............................................................................................................5
1.3 The Deliverables of the Project.............................................................................................5
1.4 Justification of Claims over the Project.................................................................................6
1.5 Discussion of Findings or Outcomes.....................................................................................6
1.6 Discussion of Implications over the Findings or Outcomes..................................................7
2. Literature Review Methodology..................................................................................................7
3. Literature Review Results..........................................................................................................12
4. Discussion..................................................................................................................................22
5. Conclusion.................................................................................................................................26
6. Reflections.................................................................................................................................28
References......................................................................................................................................31

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1. Introduction
1.1 Background and Context of the Research Project
The Project Management (PM) stages are generally referred to the different processes
that are followed by project managers and business owners in order to deal with the perspectives
of the project completion. PM provides the best kind of framework for the purpose of
management of any kind of project that are based within the business. Different leaders within
the project management team would be responsible for handling the different aspects based on
managing the project (Brookes et al., 2014). These leaders who are responsible within the project
management team would conduct a vast level of research to help in determining the best kind of
processes for the purpose of running of projects.
Business Process Management (BPM) would be ideal strategy for different professionals
based on seeking about the expanding of operational knowledge while also focusing on the
improvements over targets (Buh et al., 2015). The process of BPM can be described as a kind of
management approach based on aligning with each of the aspects based within the organizational
prospects. The BPM is a kind of holistic management approach that would be able to promote
the effectiveness of business processes while also bringing in effectiveness within the business
sector. With the BPM technique, it would be highly be helpful for improving the organizational
processes in a better manner (Rosemann & vom Brocke, 2015). It could thus also be defined as
“process optimization” process. It could be further argued that with the help of BPN based
strategies for the business, it would also be highly efficient for defining an effective and efficient
processes based on incurring changes with the hierarchical management approach of the
organisation.

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1.2 Purpose of the Project
The primary purpose of performing the project is to discuss about the various stages of
PM and the ways in which they could be linked with the life cycle stages of BPM. The project
would be helpful in discovering the ways in which project management methodologies could be
aligned with the business process management stages and thus increase the efficiency of the
processes (Conforto et al., 2014). The defined project would be helpful for understanding the
processes based on PM and linking these processes with the sector of business.
1.3 The Deliverables of the Project
The key deliverables within the research project would discuss over the brief background
of project management concepts. Based on the discussion over such concept, the different stages
would be defined, which would be highly helpful for completing the different aspects of the
project (Dzhandzhugazova et al., 2015). The different methods, techniques or tools that are used
within the approaches based on project management would also be discussed within the report
(Hermano & Martín-Cruz, 2016). The report would also discuss about the business process
management approaches that could be widely used in different project management aspects. The
project would also focus on the ways in which BPM could bring about major kind of
improvements in the sector of automation. The result from such findings would be able to bring
about major transformations about the ways of research of the business.
With the help of this form of research, it would be helpful for understanding about the
ways in which the PM stages would help in uplifting the life cycle stages of BPM (Muhos et al.,
2017). The anticipated significance of the research would help in understanding about the life
cycle stages of PM and their ways of affecting the BPM processes. The discussion in the further

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part of the report would thus be able to focus on the different techniques that are made use within
the PM life cycle stages and the ways in which BPM could adopt to such strategies in order to
improvise their strategies.
1.4 Justification of Claims over the Project
The project is based on the understanding about the importance of PM and the ways in
which they would be aligned with BPM life cycle stages. The use of the best practices of PM
within the BPM life cycle stages by an organisation would be helpful for visualization of the
relationship between the strategies and business processes.
The project based on the research would also discuss about the various concepts in
relation to the knowledge of project management (Aaboen et al., 2017). The different stages that
help in the controlling of projects would also be defined within the project discussions. This
project would also discuss about the brief of business process management and the underlying
principles. Both of these could be aligned together for the purpose of achieving huge factors of
profitability for any project or business purpose (Whittle & Myrick, 2016). This project would
focus on the literature review and the different results that could be drawn based on the
alignment processes.
1.5 Discussion of Findings or Outcomes
The findings or outcomes from the surveys based on literature have discussed that these
form of reviews based on the literature would help in discussing the ways in which literature
reviews would be helpful for focusing over the discussion (vom Brocke, Zelt & Schmiedel,
2016). The findings or outcomes that have been found from the research focuses over the ways
in which the approaches of PM would align with the different life cycle stages of BPM. There
are different principles such as PMBOK and PRINCE 2, which can be defined as the standard for

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proper form of project delivery. The project would be based on the introduction of the life cycle
stages of PM and BPM, comparing the different input and output processes (Quinlan et al.,
2019). The research would also discuss about the similarities and differences between both of the
approaches.
1.6 Discussion of Implications over the Findings or Outcomes
Based on the implications of the findings or outcomes from the project, it could be
discussed that the findings would be helpful for understanding the ways in which the PM
processes would be aligning with the BPM processes. Based on using the findings from the
performed research, the knowledge gained could be used for applying within the real-life world
projects (Kongmanus, 2016). There are several situations in which the organisation might have a
need that the PM processes would be linked with the BPM processes. In such scenarios, the
project manager or the responsible person for the project would help in aligning of such kind of
activities.
2. Literature Review Methodology
2.1 Introduction to the Topic
In the recent times, there have been several forms of investments that have been to the
management of projects within an organisation. The project that are being developed by various
organisations have a formal meaning and they mainly aim for bringing in business benefits and
also increasing the profits for the business (Somsuk & Laosirihongthong, 2014). These can also
be defined as the Business process Management as they mainly help in increasing the growth of
business sector. Hence, the quality of investments that would be made to the technological
aspects should be able to bring in high amount of competitive advantage for the business

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processes (Hinkelmann et al., 2016). The traditional organisations are in the process of bringing
rigidity in the form business processes. Different organisations should incur strong management
of projects and thus help in the carrying out of significant changes within the industries.
2.2 Criteria’s for Success of Projects in Businesses
There can be different kind of questions that could arise with the discussion based on
identifying the success or failures rates of projects. Different kind of project manager who are
highly skilled in the management of various aspects of projects in business have agreed on the
fact that defining of proper form of objectives would be highly crucial in terms of defining of the
success factor of projects. The definition of success for the project has been observed and studied
(Serrador & Turner, 2015). They have also been developed from the factors based on time, cost
and criteria of quality, which would also be known as “triple constraint” and “iron triangle”.
However, these kind of criteria can be defined as a part of the multi-dimensional variable that
would include the factors based on the involvement of project results. The factor of customer
satisfaction can also be defined as highly critical in projects (Bērziša et al., 2015). This kind of
factor would be highly meaningful in terms of determining the rate of success of critical projects.
This would also lead to high form of satisfaction for the customers. The definition of success for
the projects could vary from one perspective of the organisation to another. There is no form of
pre-defined common agreement or common evidence that would be able to discuss the success or
failure rate of the project (Warner & Sullivan, 2017). Different authors have also suggested that
there have been one form of project failure criteria could be determined as success criteria for
another perspective (Bititci, Cocca & Ates, 2016). The factor of project success has become as
one form of relevant topic based on project management and thus it has become one of the most
frequently used issues of debate.

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2.3 Stakeholder Perception and Project Success
As the success rate of projects would depend on the perception for the stakeholders,
hence there is no criteria based on “absolute success” for the project. The different kind of
projects that would have failed to meet with the original goals that were set for the project have
been necessarily been perceived as failure within the project. The definition for the success of
projects have massively changed in the recent years. The value of stakeholder satisfaction has
also increased rapidly in the recent years (Ahlan, Kartiwi & Sukmana, 2015). The value that
would be made to the organisation would be discussed as the most form of favoured factors
meant for the satisfaction of each of the members within the organisation.
The PMI has mainly focused over the importance of including the stakeholders and
managing them. Based on the different processes that are followed within the project
management life cycle stages, these would include some kind of factors. This includes the
processes based on identification of stakeholders, planning for the managing the stakeholders,
administrating and controlling of the engagement of stakeholders (Camilleri, 2016). Each of the
factors would be combined together and would also interact with each other. The primary ability
of the project manager who is designing the project would mean the rates of failure or success of
the project. The project managers who would be responsible for the managing the various factors
of the projects meant for the businesses should be able to understand each of the criteria of the
stakeholders.
2.4 Critical Success Factors (CSF) and Project Success Criteria (PSC)
Some researchers who have focused over the aspects for management of projects have
also discussed about the specific kind of factors that would be in relation to the project. The CSF

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can be defined the form of components that would be highly necessary for the delivery of the
PCS. These could also be described as the certain set of situations, actions or factors that would
help in contributing towards the final result of the project (Al-Saadi & Abdou, 2016). The PSC
have been mainly been used for measuring the success of the project. The CSF have also
facilitated towards achieving the success of the project. The project that are developed by
business would be developed in different forms of contexts and environments. Hence they would
have different kind of factors that would need to need taken into consideration.
2.5 Business Process Management (BPM)
Business process are defined as the collection of different forms of business activities that
would be taking more than one form of input and thus would be able to create a form of output
based on preparing value to the customers. The primary focus of the technical perspective based
on BPM would be giving much form of importance for the creation of the integrated holistic
approach that would also be seen as the most important reason behind the most kind of failures
based on BPR (Jeston, 2014). The need for the integrated form of holistic approach would lead to
development of fundamental form of concepts for BPM.
2.6 Management of Business Realisations and Influence of Project Success
The business strategies have been defined within the projects, which require the
developmental aspect of projects. However, the organisation would mostly fail in the
implementation of strategies based on the implementation of the improper managing of processes
over the concerned project. The factor of Benefits Realisation Management (BRM) can be
defined as a certain set of processes that would help in mitigating the gaps present between the
strategic planning and execution of the proper set of values based on the initiatives implemented

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by the business (Serra & Kunc, 2015). Every kind of business organisation highly focus over the
use of best form of practices that would be defined as to be highly crucial for the success of the
projects. Based on the success measured within the project, the organisation would be able to
establish the best form of business principles. They could also be able to bring in changes within
the management practices of the business. There are several steps in the Business Process
Management (BPM) that could be aligning with the finest kind of practices of project
management. This could be highly critical for bringing in changes for the business processes.
In order to ensure the bringing of success for the project management teams, it would be
highly necessary for the teams concerned within the project management processes to define a
clear form of statement (Cserháti & Szabó, 2014). The teams involved in project management
should clearly define each of the evaluation criteria that would help in evaluating the benefits
extracted from the use of the projects. The research is mainly focused over the bringing in
changes within the various business processes with the implementation of PM stages (Mir,
Casadesús & Petnji, 2016). There is a huge form of competition in the market based on the
growing needs of the companies to design new aspects that would be suitable for the business for
making an impact on the mind of the customers. Hence, these management processes of the
project should be highly critical for shifting of the cost and quality within the flexibility and use
of the business systems. Different organisations have realised the fact that BPM plays a great
central role in the creation of sustainability and encourage for gaining a competitive advantage in
the recent conditions of the market (Breese et al., 2015). These processes have also helped in
providing a certain form of co-relation between the success criteria of the business and the
management of business processes.

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The life cycle stages within the activities of BPM would require a high form of
integration and coordination within the cross-functional activities that would also help in
delivering high quality of products to the customers. The primary root of BPM would mainly lie
in the process of reengineering of the business processes (Bradley, 2016). The primary root of
BPM would lie between the concepts based on business process reengineering (BPR). The use of
such kind of techniques would be useful for advocating for a new kind of approach based on the
management of business processes and thus producing different forms of radical improvements
based on the performance of the business sectors. This kind of techniques have also helped the
replacement of different kind of functional hierarchy based on perspective of the organizing of
business processes.
3. Literature Review Results
3.1 Primary Concepts of Project Management
A project that is defined by any organisation or which are performed based on incurring
benefits for the business could be defined as a temporary effort for the creation of a unique
service or product. The primary purpose of the project is to produce a certain result that would be
helpful for the business. In order to design a project management plan, a project manager would
be able to discuss about the various kind of plans in order to bring in benefits for the business.
Project Management (PM) can be defined as the art for the management of aspects based
on developing of projects (Lock, 2017). This could be defined as the inception of project
management steps starting from the inception and closure of the project in structured
methodology. The project management can be defined as a form of activity that would be
defined within the projects based on proper form of planning of each of the activities that would

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be meaningful for the business activities. The business should employ the use for the various
process of business for bringing in efficiency of work and also manage the processes of the
businesses.
3.2 Different Phases of Project Management (PM)
The different phases of the project help in the developing the life cycle for the project. It
could be convenient for the project managers to help in dividing the project into certain phases
based on gaining a proper form of control and tracking each of the purposes meant for
performing the project (Albrecht & Spang, 2014). Each of the milestones that are defined within
each of the phases could be further elaborated and thus could be tracked based on completing the
project. There are some form of basic phases of the project that would be dependent based on the
defining of any kind of project (Golini, Kalchschmidt & Landoni, 2015). Some of the examples
of defining some proper plans for a project includes: a software project might have some kind of
requirements based on implementing a design, test the design, building of the various test
conditions and defining the implementation phases of the project. There might be also different
other kind of projects based on building of a metro or constructing a building.
Naming each of the phases of the project would mostly depend on the type of
deliverables that would be attached with the requirement of the company who would be defining
the project. Based on the purpose of defining of the critical aspects in relation to the project, the
phases would be defined in the form of an initial charter, plan, baseline, scope statement,
acceptance, progress, handover and approval (de Carvalho, Patah & de Souza Bido, 2015). The
classification of the different phases of the project could be classified according to the standards
of PMBOK. Thus, the different phases of the project could be in correlation to the life cycle of
the project.

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The primary purpose of defining each of the aspects of the project would be meaningful
for defining each of the set of deliverables based on start of the project. For example, in any kind
of software development project, the phase of requirement gathering would need to generate the
requirements based on document, the phase of design and the design document (Locatelli,
Mancini & Romano, 2014). The build phase in the project would be helpful in delivering the
completed code whereas in the test phase the completion of the testing of the deliverables. Each
of the defined phases in the project would mostly be associated with a certain milestone. The set
of deliverables that is expected to be delivered within a certain milestone would be tracked based
on performing closure and compliance. The Project Life Cycle could consist of the initiation,
controlling, execution and closing procedures that would be defined within the framework as
would be described by the PMBOK (Heravi, Coffey & Trigunarsyah, 2015). Each of the
necessary processes that would be necessary would be meant for ensuring that the project would
be remaining on track and it would be completed according to the certain set of specifications.
3.3 Characteristics of the Project
A project can be defined as a form of activity that would be specific and can also be
considered as a non-routinely activity. The project management activities could vary from one
time-frame to another (Badewi, 2016). The result of the project management activity is that it
results in bringing viability in the business processes in the future period after the conduction of
activities for the project.
There are certain characteristics that are in relation to the project activities. These
include:

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1. Timeline – Each of the project activities would be bound within a certain timeline that
would have a certain form of measurable starting and a fixed end-point. The project would have
to be completed within a fixed timeline (Ryan & Stewart-Mailhiot, 2015). This would be highly
helpful in helping the project managers and owners of the business to understand the time at
which the project would be completed.
2. Resources – Every project would have certain fixed number of resources. This could
include the factors of manpower and human capital.
3. Team – The team involved within the project management team would be highly
dedicated based on bringing the results for the project that might have an impact over the
business processes. The project management team would have to be efficient in performing the
different activities in relation to the project (Mir & Pinnington, 2014). Hence, they would need to
have high form of flexibility based on performing the activities across all kind of functions and
departments.
4. Tools – There are various kind of special techniques and tools that would be used in
project management. Some of the tools that are used are Gantt chart, flowchart, cause and effect
diagram and many others.
3.4 Life Cycle of Project
Any typical project would be divided into different smaller stages. Each of the stage that
would be crucial for the project would have their own importance that would be helpful for
bringing in impacts for the overall success rate of the project (Debortoli, Müller & vom Brocke,
2014). The different stages that would be implemented in project and thus be crucial for the
project are:

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1. Initiation and Planning Phase – This is defined as the initial phase of the project.
During this part of the project, the owners would propose the planning of the project to the
project manager. They would discuss each of the critical aspects in defining the aspects of the
project. In this phase, the owners would be able to analyse each of the aspects in relation to the
project (Kloppenborg, Tesch & Manolis, 2014). They might conduct a survey over the customers
based on which they would be able to frame the further phases of the project.
2. Project Definition Phase – This can be defined as the second phase of the project. In
this phase, the project managers working over the project would define each of the phases in
relation to the project. The project manager would work towards providing enough efforts based
on defining the appropriate solution for the project (Samset & Volden, 2016). The project
manager should also discuss about the concerns of the customers during the development of
activities of the project. This would help them in bringing in better forms of benefits for the
success of the project.
3. Phase of Performing Feasibility Study – In the phase of the project, the project
manager would be responsible in planning for a proper kind of solution for the project. The
entire planning would include the phase based on determining a feasibility study for the project.
In this project, definite form of milestones would be established for the project (Heldman, 2018).
During determining of the feasibility, the different aspects would be taken into proper
consideration. The definition of milestones within this phase would help the project managers
would help the involved team for helping them in completing each of the aspects of the project
within the proper kind of milestones.
4. Project Execution Phase – In this phase of the project, each of the milestones and
activities that would be defined for the project would be executed in proper order. In this phase,

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the different activities that would be performed within the project would be moving on in a
smooth and phased wised manner (Cagliano, Grimaldi & Rafele, 2015). Each of the phases in the
project would be performed in a timely and orderly manner. This phase would make use of the
maximum efficiency gained from the resources.
5. Project Conclusion Phase – This can be defined as the last phase of the project. After
the execution phase of the project and the completion of every kind of activities for the project,
the project manager would define the final phase of the project (Todorović et al., 2015). In the
final phase of the project, the intended service or product would be delivered to the customers
and thus a feedback would be gathered from them. This valuable feedback would thus be helpful
for the owners of the business to gain an understanding about the quality of their service (Pedaste
et al., 2015). Based on such kind of feedback, the business would also be able to gain an
understanding about the quality of their products and thus they would be able to bring in better
form of benefits towards the business.
3.5 Techniques of Project Management
There are different kind of activities or project completion areas that would need the use
of different techniques based on performing project management. These different techniques are
mostly utilized in the areas of project management (Marchewka, 2014). Some of the most
common techniques that would mostly be used in the areas of project management are defined as
follows:
1. Techniques based on Network Planning – These can be defined as some form of
techniques that would be helpful in depicting the relation between the different activities
performed within the project (Yan et al., 2017). The different kind of techniques based on

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network planning that would be used for depicting the tasks of the project. The techniques for
network planning are used for the relationship between project duration, project activities,
critical path, resource utilization and constraints of non-critical activities (Gamarra & Guerrero,
2015). Two different techniques based on planning of networks are Program Evaluation and
Review Technique (PERT) and Critical Path method (CPM).
2. Gantt charts – The use of Gantt charts would be helpful for depicting the tasks
assigned within the project (Young, 2016). The depiction of the project tasks would be described
over time. The use of Gantt chart would help in monitoring over the activities of the project.
They would also be able to monitor the progress over the activities in relation to the project
(Sharon & Dori, 2017). These Gantt chart would also highlight the form of dependency based
between the tasks of the project.
3.6 Primary Concepts of Business Process Management (BPM)
The BPM can be defined as the discipline based on bringing in improvements within the
business processes. The processes incurred within the BPM processes would help in analysing a
particular problem that might be faced by the business and thus deciding over the most
appropriate methods that would be necessary for bringing in improvements in the processes
exercised by the business (Tarhan, Turetken & Reijers, 2016). The business processes should be
need to be modelled, execute improvements and also perform a monitoring over the improved
process of the business. The business would also be able to optimize the business processes.
A business process could be defined as a form of activity or different set of activities that
would help in accomplishing about the specific form of organizational goal. BPM is not only
defined as a one-time task but rather it could be confirmed as a form of ongoing activity that

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would involve the persistent process of re-engineering. The BPM also involves the automation of
tasks that would be processed within any form of given work processes (Harmon, 2019). BPM is
also defined as a kind of technology and improvements in the work processes that could even
happen outside of the automation processes and without the use of technology. There are various
kind of organizations who would be engaged within the BPM processes. The organizations who
would be making use of the BPM activities could be choosing the various methodologies based
on BPM that would include the processes such as Lean and Six Sigma.
3.7 Uses of BPM in Different Project Activities
BPM is used as a form of ongoing process that would be helpful for improving the
processes of the businesses. The use of BPM could be used for improving the insight, order and
efficiency within the business processes (ME de Waal & Batenburg, 2014). BPM could be
widely use for the reduction of any form of chaos that would be used for performing the
collective workflows, which would help in the creation of work processes and thus be able to
eliminate the management of the ad hoc workflow. The primary goal of the organisation would
be able to engage within the BPM activities. The use of BPM would be able to create the
efficient management of the organisational processes based on the delivery of the various form
of end products and services (Malaurent & Avison, 2016). Thus, the BPM is mainly intended for
supporting the leaders within the organisation as they would seek for bringing in efficiency of
the work processes. These business leaders would also work towards realizing the overarching
goals set for the entire organisation.
The BPM comprises of multiple steps that would be helpful for the growth of the
organisational processes. These organisations would make use of different project to improve the
culture of work within the business. These project would be handled with the efficient

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management of the project managers (Margherita, 2014). Many of the BPM experts would
include the inclusion of five steps. These include the processes of designing, modeling of the
business process activities, execution of the projects within the business processes, monitoring
and optimization of the business processes. Different other experts in the field of BPM would be
able to list different other forms of steps. These include the steps based on analyzing, modeling,
implementing, monitoring, management and automation of the various activities that would be
performed.
Despite the different forms of variances based on the inclusion of the number and names
for the steps, the various components based on the inclusion of BPM lifecycle would include:
1. Performing the activities based on the design of the processes within the business. This
kind of defining of the business activities would exist and thus they would be able to analyse the
different process based on performing analysis over the current activity. Based on the perfect
form of analysis, the businesses should be able to understand about the ways in which they could
be able to improve their processes of the business.
2. These businesses should also be able to model the existing business process and thus
be flexible based on operating within different kind of scenarios.
3. The business processes should be able to implement the activities of the BPM. They
would also execute the different new developed activities of the business. Based on the
supported discussions, the organisations would be able to bring about several forms of
improvements of the business processes. This would include the options based on
standardizations and bringing in new processes of automation in the business activities.

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4. The BPM would be able to bring in continuous monitoring over the business processes.
This would help in understanding of the activities of the business and thus improve the current
scenarios of work processes.
5. The business should also think of certain processes based on optimizing the internal
activities that are performed within the business.
3.8 Importance of Business Process Management
The use of BPM would be helpful for allowing the different organizational leaders to help
in understanding of the various kind of processes that might happen within the organizations.
With the knowledge gained from the understanding of the organizational processes, they would
be needed for analysing the end activities that would be performed within the project. Based on a
proper form of analysis over the current activities, the organisational leaders would be able to
make several forms of changes towards the benefit of the organization (Wong, Tseng & Tan,
2014). The user of fully functional BPM would be helpful in the reduction of waste, save time of
the performing of different activities, cutting down on the number of errors that would be
performed within the business activities and thus generating a better form of products and
services.
The different organisational leaders who would be responsible for performing different
forms of business activities should also be able to manage the end-to-end processes of the
business. These use of the BPM would be highly critical as this would help in bringing in better
forms of improvement over the activities performed by the business. These organisational
leaders should also ensure that the different processes for the business should be focused over the
primary industry and thus they should also ensure that the market trends would be followed

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properly (DaSilva & Trkman, 2014). With the analysis over the present activities that would be
performed by the business, the organisation would understand the areas of lack and thus they
could bring about the emerging technologies. These kind of technologies would be able to
support the tasks in a better manner and thus increase the overall processes within the business.
3.9 Tools and Vendors of BPM
With the help of a BPM suite, the organisations should be able to offer a vast suite of
functions and tools that would be used for mapping, automating, modelling, optimizing and
management of the various activities. The BPM would be able to generally support the different
kind of supporting activities that might range from the business rule management to analytics
and maintaining a broad form of user communication. Intelligent BPM would be able to offer
different form of next-generation capabilities that includes adaptive analytics based techniques
and advanced tools based on communication.
There are different forms of options based on BPM software that would be available
within the market. different kind of vendors that include BP Logix, IBM, Oracle, Red Hat,
Pegasystems and Tibco software.
3.10 Impact of Project Management over the Performance of the Business
In the recent times, there have been vast form of challenges in the economic environment.
The senior management would need to understand about the fundamental form of support and
the strategic role of the project management that would be put over the business. At the same
time, the different planners and project management people involved within the team would be
able to share responsibility for engaging the better form of business activity with the help of
senior executives.

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The primary concept based on project management would focus on the traditional form
of delivery challenges. This has been defined as the widespread form of use of project
management that would be limited to some of the specific industries (Reich, Gemino & Sauer,
2014). In order to ensure that the project management would play a certain role in the strategic
investments over the project, there should be a proper form of ownership based on the critical
functions that would be taken at the board level to decide about the key business functions that
would be performed at the business level. Hence, with the help of the project management
activities, it would help in aligning the various business activities.
4. Discussion
With the wide form of evaluation of each of the organisational theories, there have been
massive forms of changes that have been made over the business processes that have been within
the organisation. These kind of changes within the organisational processes would be helpful for
managing the different people who would be involved within the team of project management
(Cardy & Leonard, 2014). With the rise of the complexities that are made in the field of business,
the use of project management would be created for the management of the different business
processes. This has led with the adoption based on the systems of approach for the organisation
(Schwalbe, 2015). However, there are many kind of project managers who would establish the
certain processes that would be needed for managing the business processes.
However, there are different project managers who would continue to take the rational
approach in which they would establish the different processes based on building the values in
business. These project manager would apply the several processes in business as the kind of
building blocks (Svejvig & Andersen, 2015). These form of building blocks would help the
organisation in bringing in flexibility towards the ways in which they would intake projects and

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thus deal them with the best form of project management approaches. The rational form of
approach that might be taken by organisation should be appealing to the managers due to their
high level of comfort in any kind of approach. It would be a common task for project managers
to avoid the various forms of complexities and ambiguity in the ways in which the working
environment would be followed by the project managers in managing different aspects of project
(Crawford, 2014). Hence, the choosing of the right kind of approach should be highly powerful
and thus make an impact over the entire list of business processes.
The rational form of approach could be particularly preferred by the managers in which
the top down decision making would be discussed as the most preferred approach. The project
manager would be able to direct the execution, monitor over the strategy and thus decide over
the strategies based on implementation (Pritchard & PMP, 2014). In the different forms of
organisational strategy. It would be discussed that the different plans based on managing of
projects should be thought in a conscious manner and that should also be elaborated fully.
It could be discussed that when organisations would maintain a flat structure and would
comprise of different forms of coalitions among people who would come from diverse groups,
there would be a need for changing of the business systems of the organisation (Walker, 2015).
The recent trends that are followed with the use of project management principles would be able
to guide the internal systems of the organisation and thus they would be able to plan the different
set of activities. The organisations who are in the process of making different forms of decisions
for the future days should be able to adopt this form of approach that would help them in relying
over the factors based on dealing with complexities (Brones, de Carvalho & de Senzi Zancul,
2014). This kind of approach would generally be beneficial for the project managers in different
organisations as this would highly lend them in managing the vast level of complexities within

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the organisation. These kind of complexities should be highly focused upon the use of different
common methods based on project management.
Project Management (PM) and the underlying principles that are defined could be
understood as the major act of management of the critical projects. The different deliverables
that would be used within the project would be finished with a strategic view based on bringing
improvisation within the work processes (Martinsuo & Killen 2014). As per the varied form of
knowledge based on the use of project management strategies, a project could be carried out in
different kind of strategies. The project could be executed in wide forms of manner based on
bringing in innovation of the ways in which project management practices would be employed
within the work processes (Nicholas & Steyn, 2017). The techniques that are massively used in
project management would include the following factors: identification of clear requirements,
establishment of achievable and clear form of business objectives, balancing of the completing
demands based on different kind of stakeholders. It would also mean the management of
common form of functionalities that would help in managing the processes of business (Griffith,
Stephenson & Watson, 2014). From the discussions over the approaches in which project
management practices are being employed within the organisation, it could be discussed that a
common form of scientific and structured mode of approach would need to be followed by the
project management teams. They should thus be responsible for aligning each of the
requirements of the business, understand them and then align those requirements with the
business process management techniques. In the recent times, it has been seen that with the rise
of different forms of project management techniques, the business organisations would find
themselves to be adrift in the vast knowledge and requirement for the use of project management
(Sears et al., 2015). One of the major form of challenge for the businesses would be make use of

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projects with the help of proper kind of management techniques. Hence, the most viable solution
based on the use of project management would be make use of the different principles of project
management in order to success in the highly competitive environment.
From the discussion supported in the above literature reviews, it could be discussed that
without a clear form of scientific approach made towards the use of project management
principles, the project would not succeed within the projects. It would also be difficult for the
organisations to make use of the best form of project management techniques in order to succeed
in the vast competitive market. In the recent times, it has been seen that different organisations
are in the rapid process of implying the best form of project management techniques for making
the better use of the opportunities that are brought in terms of projects that would be developed
by them (Chang, 2016). In order to deliver projects with a proper form of quality, the project
management team involved within the organisation should be able to describe the constraints
based on scope, time and quality and thus deliver the project with the best form of output that
would be expected by the owners of the organisation.
Hence, project management can be defined as the creation of a proper structure and the
management of the commitment made over the project. With the commitment towards the
delivery of better form of project results, the use of different kind of common methods would be
applied to the project development scenarios (Bowers & Khorakian, 2014). In some scenarios,
the managers face a certain kind of problem based on triple constraint. This can be defined as the
certain form of competing demands based on the factors of scope, quality and time that would be
used by the project manager. Without the use of proper form of project management techniques,
the project manager who would be functioning within the organisation should develop several
forms of skills that would be able to help them in develop the skills to be used for the project

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(Silvius, 2018). Hence, it can be discussed that project management could be widely defined as
both forms of necessary and essential factors for the success criteria of the project. The use of
different concepts based on the different life cycle stages of BPM could be thus aligned with the
PM process and thus they could highly benefit with the use of such form of techniques (Too &
Weaver, 2014). Hence, the use of project management techniques would prove to be highly
beneficial for the businesses in order to bring in the best form of practices and aligning the work
processes of the business sector.
5. Conclusion
Based on the discussion over the above literature review, it could be discussed that the
use of different forms of appropriate form of project management framework would be highly
useful for increasing the value of the organisation. The organisation that would be making use of
the project management techniques would be highly benefiting from the use of the use of the
appropriate of the project management framework. The success of the project would highly
depend on the proper management of the theoretical project management frameworks based on
the use of appropriate concepts. Therefore, the success of the project is highly measured with the
help of efficiency in short term processes. The effectiveness of the project management
techniques would be highly useful in making use within the business process management
techniques. Hence, the value of the project could be further understood with the effective use of
business processes. The value for the project could be understood with the estimation of the
needs of the customer, align them with the output of the project and thus align with the strategies
of the organisation.
From the perspective based on the use of PM management techniques, there would be a
proper form of definition of the scope creep in projects. Scope creep in projects could be defined

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as one of the acceptable forms of techniques based on over-budgeting and over-scheduling of
projects. Hence, the achievement for the targets based on projects could be defined based on the
success based on project management. Hence, the ability of the output of the project would be to
deliver the expected form of return based on investment over the project. Therefore the success
criteria for the project could be defined as the use based on the generation of investment over the
project. There is also a vast form of challenge based on investing over the project and then be
able to determine the success criteria for the project. The deciding over the success factors based
on success criteria over the investment on project could be defined as extremely challenging.
Experienced form of project manager would be more interests in the development of
projects based on focusing over the aspects based on teamwork and development of more form
of investment success. These project manager would highly be responsible for the creation of
different forms of planning based on the development of various forms of strategies in relation to
the project. From the supported discussions, it has been concluded that in the traditional form of
processes supported by the organisation, there was less form of strategic planning that was
involved within the industries. However, in the recent times, there was a wide form of need
based on deciding over the use of strategic planning over the projects and thus discuss over the
issues that are mostly faced by business organisations during the planning phase of the project.
The use of project management approach would help in providing a certain form of
solution to the different approaches used by the industries. With the help of different tools used
within the project management approaches, the organisations would be making the best use of
several such kind of platforms that would help the project managers to develop the plan for the
project. It has been further seen that organisations who would work in diverse range of situations
would be facing the most kind of problems based on deciding over the aspects that would be

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used within the projects. In the recent times, customers are also in the high need for the
development of products that would suit according to their needs. Hence, the fulfilling of the
necessities of the customers would be discussed as a massive form of challenge towards the
organisations. These customers would always look for certain products that would be cheap in
cost. Hence the business organisations should be highly skilled with the use of different practices
within the business that would be helping them in mitigating the needs of the customers.
From the discussion supported, it could thus be concluded that the best use of project
management techniques could be further made use of in order to bring in the best form of
business benefits. With the advancements made over the field of technology, the approaches
based on project management would also change in the recent times. Hence, the organisations
should choose the appropriate use of the best form of technique based on project management
that would be incurred within the workplace based on benefiting the organisation.
6. Reflections
The project is based on the discussion of project management principles that would be
aligned with the business process management life cycle stages in order to determine the best
form of benefits that would be incurred within the organisations. The techniques that are used in
the BPM would be highly critical within the organisation in order to produce different forms of
wide ranging benefits and improve the culture within the business.
Based on deciding over the aspects over the project, it could be discussed that I have
performed a thorough analysis over each of the concepts based on project management. Each of
the concepts based on project management were studied by me thoroughly for developing the
works over the project. From the discussion over the use of such kind of approaches, it could be

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understood that the techniques based on project management would be highly critical for use
within the projects. I have understood that project management makes a varied use of tools,
techniques and principles in order to define the qualities over any concerned project. During the
development of activities in relation to the project, I have read through academic journals in
order to better understand the use of different forms of tools and techniques that would be
beneficial for the project. According to the understanding of the business process management, I
have been able to dicuss about the various kind of process that need to be used in within the
industries. During the research done over the project, I have been able to understand the different
concepts based on project management principles and business process management. According
to the knowledge gained based on the development of such kind of activities, I have been able to
conclude that both of them should be linked together in order to extract the best form of benefits
for the organisation.
However, the least form of well activity that was performed within the project that was
done by me was that I did not focus over any practical form of knowledge over any kind of
domain. I have also not made a visit to any industry to understand the different kind of processes
based on project management that could be used by them. This part has not been completed by
me. However, I have been able to understand about the different tools and techniques that have
been used by the organisation.
During the development of the activities or discussion of the project, I have also been
able to understand about the tools used for scheduling of various activities in the project. Based
on focusing over the challenges that were encountered by me was that I could not get a practical
idea for the use of project management principles that might be used in different business
organisation. This would be based on bringing efficiency of work process of the business process

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management life cycle stages. The challenge that was faced by me would be the challenge that
was faced by me. Hence, I had to focus over the use of different forms of journals and other
articles in order to understand about the activities that have been performed by various
organisation for bringing success for the projects.
After the discussion over the article and the research project, it could be discussed by me
that I have been able to gain a vast form of knowledge over the use of different tools and
techniques used by project managers in order to bring in efficiency of the work processes. The
most important thing, which I have learned from this project is that I have gained a vast
knowledge over the use of project management techniques. I have understood that project
management plays a pivotal role in business organisations to help them in developing the end
results for projects.
Based on the learning gained from this project, the future opportunities that could be
made is based on defining the use of project management principles during the development of
projects that might be developed during the course of my learning. Whenever, I would be
developing a project, I would apply the core principles of project management and thus improve
the quality aspects of the project. I would also be able to measure thee different aspects that are
concerned within projects such as time, quality and scope of the project. Following the
principles, it would highly help in developing the quality of the project and also ensure that the
project would be able to meet the success criteria.

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