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PM governance roles

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 is no the relationships 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:

* Executive Sponsor(s)
* Steering Committee
* Project Manager/Director

Project Governance

Project Governance as a Linkage Mechanism

As a project gets into the initiation phase, it requires an effective linkage mechanism that ensures alignment between the strategic project objectives and direction, and the path to planned outcomes over the implementation life-cycle of the project. In other words, such a mechanism must help sustain the project’s potential to deliver the stated benefits. Moreover, this mechanism must provide oversight and control over the project during the execution process. It must help managers and leaders to assess the project’s current progress and adjust content and direction to the objectives if necessary. The mechanism should also allow senior management to refine the definition of success and maintain alignment with the evolving project plan.

project managers top five sins

The Project Manager’s Top Five Sins

If a project fails, then most likely the reason for this is an incapable PM (Project Manager). That’s almost an axiom. Because project managers take the ultimate responsibility for delivering...

Project Leadership Skills

Top 3 Project Leadership Skills

Best practices of project management and planning make me believe that having well-developed and up-to-date project leadership skills is one of critical aspects to project success. Excellent leadership allows project managers and team leaders to get in front of the competition and put in extra effort on producing project deliverables within allocated budget. Availability of the skills for project leadership ensures successful implementation of project goals, better team coordination and higher project performance. It’s really hard to overestimate the importance of project leading abilities and skills to success. In this article we will talk about the top 3 skills for project leading.

Project Knowledge Management – The Importance of Managing Project Knowledge

Project Knowledge Management – The Importance of Managing Project Knowledge

If you ask me about ways to make your project team more competent, I will answer that a truly efficient way to let your people better understand your project is through managing project knowledge. The importance behind project knowledge management is that you can apply knowledge transfer methodologies throughout the project management lifecycle to use the information collected from previous projects and make current project be managed more efficient, and benefit from better project performance.