There are various definitions of Governance in the Project Management literature. Major project management institutions, such as PMI and IPMA, provide their own definition of project governance. The most established standard is ISO 21500. What all the guidelines of the various institutions have in common is the lack of a quantitative and at the same time systemic governance approach, in other words a holistic method that can support a project throughout its entire life cycle. The aim of this research is to make an analysis of the scientific literature in order to find a method that is able to generate data by operating at a high level perpective.