Effective Control & Governance – project management steps

PROJECT MANAGEMENT STEPS

Effective project governance positions a project for success. Good project governance allows effective and efficient decision making – that is, the right people making optimum decisions that meet the needs of the project and its stakeholders and making those decisions in a timely manner.

Consider the two project management steps scenarios below:

• the first showing the effect of no Governance and Poor project control
• the second showing robust Governance and effective project control.

project management steps – control and governance

THE ROLE OF GOVERNANCE – PROJECT MANAGEMENT STEPS

The role of project governance within the project management steps life-cycle is to provide a decision making framework that is logical, robust and repeatable to govern an organization’s capital investments. In this way, an organisation will have a structured approach to conducting both its business as usual activities and its business change, or project, activities.

The key inputs to the Project Sponsor are:

Deliverables
Status Reports
Issues & Risks
Changes

project management steps – role of Governance