If Business Project Governance is so easy, how come so many projects fail to deliver to expectations?

Governance roles can often seem to be too much accountability with too little control! This does not need to be the case. Governance of projects is an active role. In addition to its control and guidance roles, the governance team is also an essential supporter and enabler of the project’s success.

But how to do this effectively is often unknown. Too few project managers understand that they cannot be successful on their own - that they need the governance structures to be effective and help ‘steer’ their projects into the business. Too few senior managers and executives know exactly what they are supposed to do in their governance roles, and how to do it. These two situations lead to double jeopardy for your projects.

Our Governance Guides enable you to perform your governance roles fully understanding your accountabilities as well as the measures of success. We ensure that you have the right information to be assured that your project is sound.We give you the knowledge you need, the questions to ask, the issues to consider and the action to take to ensure that your project is successful. We even redefine ‘project success’! With our guides you will then have the knowledge and information you need to govern any project effectively.

Turning Accountability into Results

As an executive in a governance role you are accountable to your organization for the delivery of the expected outcomes and benefits from your project/program. But you are not directly running it. You’re ‘governing’ it — which means you bear the accountability but don’t have hands-on control. We equip you to

1. focus on the right issues in the right way,
2. make decisions quickly and easily based on a good understanding of your role and your project.
3. achieve more in less time and with less stress.
4. avoid the common mistakes.

This is your project, you need to ‘own’ it and be proud of its (and your) success. Our Guides give you the expert knowledge and advice to make Project Governance one of your own core competencies so you’ll not be blindsided by any aspects of your projects. 

NB Only 5% of projects deliver on time, on budget and all business outcomes and benefits. Our Governance Program will help your project be in that 5%. You’ll be able to work as one with your Project Team, jointly focused on delivering commonly understood desired and expected business outcomes and value. Importantly, you’ll generate a high level of personal satisfaction of doing an excellent job, and receiving peer and senior management recognition for delivering a truly successful project.

We are providing you the most comprehensive set of Project Governance Guides available anywhere in the world. They are made up of “Understanding … Guides” as background to the key topics and issues, “How to … Guides” that spell out how to do each governance process. We have providing you Guides to the end to end project/value delivery process (Set up — Planning — Delivery — Closure and Beyond) as well as Guides to more specialized topics such as managing your Steering Committee, Project Manager or Systems Costs. The combination of these Guides will equip anyone in a Governance role to improve their performance immediately.