Introduction Background Project’s success depends on a number of factors, and the prevailing conditions within a given business. Project portfolio management is always important when a firm is planning on how to influence all the projects positively. An individual project can be influenced by project portfolio management in various ways, as will be discussed in this research paper. Due to the demand and desire to compete effectively in the world market, researchers have directed a lot of their attention in projects management. In the past years, little of project portfolio management was known, but now in the current world, things are changing with the many changes taking place in various sectors. People, including scholars and business managers, have become very innovative. Modernity is taking place at a very high rate and so many changes are observed in the world market. This calls for a proper project management for any project’s goals and objectives to be realized. According to Kousholt (2007, p. 34), projects are identified and classified into various categories mostly during the initial stages of a project. There is a raised concern to come up with a better project management approach in order to march with the competitive market environment. This means that a project needs to be managed as part of the portfolio within the organization. Several arguments have come up showing that portfolio managed has been noted to have very positive effect on a single project’s success. According to Murch (2004, p. 112), success of a single project may be pegged on how the top management manages the project portfolio. In the portfolio of projects, there are different projects that have different weights. The top management should know how to award both material and moral support to each project in the portfolio. This will demand that this management have a clear understanding of all the projects in the portfolio. When there is a general lack of understanding of the project portfolio, it means that the relevant authorities will have limited understanding of each individual project. This failure to manage the portfolio of projects would mean that individual project may not succeed because it was not well taken care of initially. It is therefore, of interest to understand the influence of project portfolio management on success of an individual project. This paper aims at identifying the influence of project portfolio management on individual projects. Aim In every research, it is always important to clearly define aims of the project. According to Nagarajan (2005, p. 19), aims are the broader desired outcomes of a given project. They are the long term benefits that such a project should bring to the organization. This scholar holds that a research should have specific aims that would define its path. It will be clear to all the stakeholders that such a project would be striving to achieve specific outcome in the long run. This research paper is no exception. The aim of this research paper is intertwined in the research question which is stated as below. What is the impact of project portfolio management on individual projects? It is clear, from this research q