Your Guide to Project Management Best Practices

Project Governance Roles and Responsibilities

Project governance roles are tools of the governance mechanism to ensure compliance with the implementation standards. The mechanism cannot be effective if there are no relationships between groups involved in the project. Roles of the project governance framework can be presented as a chart. Below in the picture, there are listed three project governance roles:

project governance roles

Executive Sponsor(s)

Typically, in any project there is a need for one or more executive sponsors who ensure that the implementation process is carried out appropriately and every individual involved in the process makes a necessary contribution to the overall project delivery and completion.

The executive sponsor takes the primary responsibility for achieving the project’s planned outcomes and objectives identified at the Project Setup phase. This person directs the process and makes oversight in order to ensure the project’s successful delivery.

During the implementation process, the executive sponsor has an assigned project governance role that entails the following responsibilities:

Steering Committee

Typically, complex and large project initiatives focus on more than one segments, and multiple segments are usually linked to different (but dependent) results and outcomes within the context of the overall project implementation objectives and direction.

For successful implementation, such initiatives require a flexible project governance role that provides each of the segments with separate authorities. All segment representatives will deal with each other to make collaborative decisions, adjust the overall project direction and manage resources. All this can be dome by establishing a steering committee.

A typical steering committee consists of:

Project Manager/Director

A project manager or director is a person who takes the project governance role for setting and managing project work and monitoring project progress. Managers and directors must ensure that their projects sustain a connection to the implementation methodology and the overall objectives.

A classic project manager is responsible for the following tasks:

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