Project Governance

A Practical Guide to Effective Project Decision Making

Ross Garland

• Publisher: Kogan Page
• Year: 2009
• Print ISBN:
  9780749453060
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9780749456085
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Project Management
• Index: Business

Effective project decision making is recognised as a key feature of successful projects. Ineffective decision making leads to project delay and failure.

Project Governance takes readers through the logical steps required for the establishment of a project governance framework for a project or organisation. Starting with problems typical of ineffective project governance, it develops a set of principles designed to overcome these problems and builds a framework based on these principles.

This comprehensive guide explains how to populate the framework effectively, provides the accountabilities and responsibilities of the main roles , and describes how to integrate the project governance framework into the organisation.

Whether you are a project management practitioner or a student of project management, the lessons learned in this valuable handbook make for essential reading.

Table of contents

• Copyright
• Table of contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• 1 Causes and symptoms of ineffective project governance
• 2 The principles of effective project governance
• 3 Building the project governance model
• 4 Populating the project board
• 5 Scalability
• 6 Implementing the project governance framework
• 7 The governance relationship between programmes and projects
• 8 Towards an integrated project delivery framework
• Appendix I: Example project governance policy
• Appendix II: Terms of reference and modus operandi of project governance bodies
• Appendix III: Role descriptions
• References
• Index