Being on a Project Governance Team Member requires more than just ‘turning up’! The Project Governance Team Member plays an important position in the success (or lack of success) of the project.

The project team cannot be successful by themselves — they need your support, your action and your time. They don’t run the business, they cannot make the changes in the business, you do.

Being on a project governance team member you have clear roles and accountabilities that you need to know and understand. You need to know where you fit in the overall project and value delivery structure, what factors are critical to your success and how to protect your project’s value from you committee membership role.

Benefits

This Guide ensures you understand

1. your role, accountabilities and what is expected of you
2. the attributes of excellent steering committee members that you can aspire too
3. your critical and primary role in protecting the project’s value.

An effective, informed Project Governance Team Member is one of the greatest bonuses a project manager can have”

Who should read

This is an essential Guide for all Project Governance Team Members.

This “How to be an effective project governance team member” Guide is an adjunct to the “How to govern …” Guides for the end-to-end value delivery process.

Contents

1. Understanding your roles as a ‘project steering committee member’
2. Understanding project steering committee accountabilities
3. Understanding the desired attributes of an excellent committee members
4. Understanding where the ‘governance’ fits in the value delivery process
5. Understanding how the different project stakeholders interact
6. Understanding the factors critical to your project’s success
7. Understanding the answers to frequently asked questions
8. How to protect your project’s value
9. How to be educated as a project steering committee member

In addition, we also provide you with some additional supporting tools and resources to make use of this Guide easy and effective.

Bonus

The role of the Project Steering Committee
A value delivery management article by Jed Simms that summarizes the role of the Steering Committee in descriptive terms.

The Project Governance Team’s measures of success
A value delivery management article by Jed Simms that defines how to know if your project governance team has been successful.