IISPM Manifesto for Sustainable Projects

Project Management Roles and Responsibility
 
Sustainability by definition is the capacity to endure.  In application, organizations must build this capacity into three main areas:

1. Environment
The sustainable provision of products, services or results with inputs that are absolutely renewable and have zero impact on our environment. Any processes supporting or sustaining the organization, must aim for zero footprint on the environment. We live within natural constraints of air, water and land which limit the healthy growth of any individual, organization, institution, government body, population or country. We, as a whole, must cooperatively manage the natural constraints of our world in an efficient and resilient manner.

2. Society
An organization’s actions must have an ongoing net positive impact on stakeholders and the community at large.

3. Financial Development
Organizations must achieve a combined effort of financial independence, shareholder value, zero impact on the environment, and greater good to the stakeholders at large.

The efforts of Project Management within any organization must support the above mentioned efforts with knowledge and expertise through practical application, processes, tools and techniques

Our Principles

• Our first priority is to bring sustainable practices to the project management practitioner with knowledge, processes, tools, and techniques
• We believe that sustainable stewardship of resources, economic development and the community is essential for the long term success of any organization
• All organizations will realize a net benefit by following sustainable practices in the creation and delivery of products and services

We Believe in:

• Community:  Impact/ engagement that results in a net positive “greater good”
• Economic Development: Net positive, with the capacity to endure
• Environment: Impact/ exchange that is renewable and maintains the capacity to endure
• Primary Resource Goals: Net zero impact or cost to landfills, air, water, or land waste levels, toxins or poisons
• Water: Managed and sustainable water intake and usage
• Energy: Primary focus on renewable sources with a commitment to invest in new technologies to transition entirely to renewable in the future
• Raw Materials: The sustainable use of base, natural materials and a commitment to not engineer, develop or manufacture toxic or poisonous chemicals or chemical compounds
• GHG:  A reduction in greenhouse gases and investment in new technologies to reduce global greenhouse gases 

Co authored by:
Brian Ackles, PMP, PEng, IISPM-Practitioner
Larry T Barnard, PMI-RMP, PMP, IISPM-Practitioner, Change Management Practitioner
Rahul Dogra, MBA, Msc, BEng