Why a Project Governance Model?
It is critical to the success of every business project that stakeholders have available to them a framework explaining the responsibilities and reporting lines of all the key players. For example, we know that there is often a Steering Committee for large projects and that every project has a Project Manager, but what distinguishes their respective roles and how are the two linked? All questions of this type are answered within the Project Governance Model (PGM). You must set up a PGM specifically for each project. Here we discuss some of the foundation concepts and general principles. One of the nicest introductions to this topic, delightfully entitled Rowing not Steering, was published by the Information Strategy Unit – until recently, a policy group within the Tasmanian State Government. That pamphlet contains a number of invaluable messages – the central theme being that project Steering Committees are not some kind of extension to the project team.
