I think “Governanace” is one of most over-used and misunderstood words in business, it gets thrown around casually without real though into implementing a governance approach. I realised last year during a period of self-reflection that perhaps I too was falling into this trap, so I went back-to-basics and referred to some publications - PMI have a practice guide as well as a number of other publications that touch on it, and the Axelos “Managing Succesful Programs” methodology also has Governance Themes which cover a number of topics. In my previous Organisation I realised we didn’t have a true end to end Governance framework, so i wrote a governance plan. It had sections which identified all of the different types of governance activity we had; for us this was things like: sales, technical solution, process, lifecycle, implementation, but of course it will be different for every project.
Indeed the term is overused, but in essence its the management framework used to make project decisions and also to have some checkpoints. I'm always interested to see how people write governance plans, as they are so interesting, diverse, yet crucial.
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1 reply by Phil Doyle
Jul 09, 2018 1:44 PM
Phil Doyle
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Yes it is something that I find interesting also, and if Icould make one further suggestion: in most cases it is for the wider organisation (programme/portfolio) to define the governance structure that must be adhered to e.g. standard checkpoints, till gates, review forums, reporting standards, measurement operational definitions. Most of the project governance will be the enacting of this defined governance. There are exceptions for stand alone projects, or perhaps an an which has never used projects before, or a new type/size of project; an a PM will
Need to implement some of their own governance controls at the Work Package level, but on the whole this should be standard if the organisation has any reasonable level of maturity vs OPM/CMMI etc
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Phil DoyleSenior Project Manager| Orangebus (Capita)Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne And Wear, United Kingdom
Jun 30, 2018 10:25 PM
Replying to Sante Delle-Vergini, PhD
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Indeed the term is overused, but in essence its the management framework used to make project decisions and also to have some checkpoints. I'm always interested to see how people write governance plans, as they are so interesting, diverse, yet crucial.
Yes it is something that I find interesting also, and if Icould make one further suggestion: in most cases it is for the wider organisation (programme/portfolio) to define the governance structure that must be adhered to e.g. standard checkpoints, till gates, review forums, reporting standards, measurement operational definitions. Most of the project governance will be the enacting of this defined governance. There are exceptions for stand alone projects, or perhaps an an which has never used projects before, or a new type/size of project; an a PM will
Need to implement some of their own governance controls at the Work Package level, but on the whole this should be standard if the organisation has any reasonable level of maturity vs OPM/CMMI etc Saving Changes...
