Project Governance

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Ever wish that you had better project governance to provide overview and control of your project portfolio?

Many organisations find it difficult to prioritise projects and to juggle resources among the conflicting demands of the many projects in their portfolio. In addition, individual project managers may not receive adequate support and understanding from their sponsors and executives to be able to meet project goals and objectives.

Take advantage of our broad experience in project management, governance, coaching and training. Book our "Project Governance" workshop - designed to provide an understanding of a typical project process framework, to explore the roles, responsibilities and expectations for project sponsors, and to help you to better manage your portfolio and the changes associated with all projects.

How do you justify training time out for senior managers?

Understanding the time pressures on senior managers, we have designed our "Project Governance" workshop as a concise, punchy, half-day (4 hour) workshop.

To analyse the cost/benefit ratio of investing your time and money in this workshop, look at your organisation and calculate what poor project governance could be costing you in terms of:

Project prioritisation - deciding to do the wrong project at the wrong time, projects being duplicated, conflicting projects undertaken at the same time
Opportunity cost - inability to take the best opportunities because funds and people are already committed to less profitable or less productive projects
Internal competition - departments or silos fighting for resources, instead of resourcing decisions being made for the greatest overall benefit
No standard framework and process - projects planned, managed and documented using different approaches and templates, so no efficiency of common language and no accountability
Scope creep - no process for analysing and approving requests for change, which so often cause projects to run over time and budget
No project evaluation - lessons learned (good and bad) are not captured and shared, so improvements are not implemented, and the same mistakes are repeated, often at great cost

Fix just one of these common project governance issues, and you will repay your investment in the workshop many times over!

What do we know about Project Governance?

Our facilitators have many years of experience in managing project portfolios, large and small projects, running project offices, coaching, designing and delivering project management training at all levels. We have set up project frameworks and offices in global corporations, local government and not-for-profit organisations. We are also constantly learning from our course participants and specialist project management media.

The benefits of this project governance workshop

Participants will gain a good understanding of project governance. Implementing the lessons and tools learned will provide the following benefits:

Sound decisions on which projects to invest in and allocate resources to, consistent with your organisation's mission, strategies and business plans
A consistent framework, process and documentation to streamline projects
Better understanding, communication and co-operation amongst all stakeholders
A good understanding of stakeholder expectations, especially the Project Manager's, and how to provide appropriate support and guidance
Better control and monitoring of project performance and outcomes
Improved organisational learning and knowledge management

Book our "Project Governance" workshop now so you can better manage your project portfolio!

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