(ISO: Geneva) -- With already a wide-ranging portfolio of more than 18,600 international standards covering everything from screw sizes to social responsibility, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) continues to diversify its scope with the recent addition and expansion of five work areas for standards development. These are:
• Project, program, and portfolio management
• Outsourcing
• Human resources management
• Additive manufacturing
• Risk management

Project, program, and portfolio management

ISO had originally established a project committee to develop a single standard on project management (ISO/PC 236). However, recognizing that the discipline of project management is much broader than what a single standard can encompass, it was decided that a new technical committee would be created to develop additional standards in this area. The new ISO/TC 258—“Project, program, and portfolio management,” will address aspects that are not covered in the standard currently in development by ISO/PC 236 (ISO 21500), but that are considered essential and urgently needed in many countries.

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