Project Governance

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Project Governance - 1 Day Course

Overview

For many projects, good management is not sufficient to ensure feasibility, viability, priority and stakeholder interests. At a time of reducing resources of people and budgets we need some simple tools and checklists to enable better decision making at critical points before, during and after the project management process.

Project Governance is not a new name for project management, nor is it yet another layer of bureaucracy. Effective governance will ensure that your organisation’s project portfolio is aligned to your organisations objectives, is delivered efficiently and is sustainable.

This one day workshop will focus on practical approaches to achieving effective governance, and provide you with the tools you need to maintain organisational performance.

What Types of Project Benefit from Project Governance?

This workshop is not specific to particular types or contexts of project – the skills are generic. However, discussion and exercises will allow reference to different contexts to highlight the use of the techniques covered in a wide range of projects, such as:

  • Internal structural projects in the Public and Private sectors:

    o ICT
    o Workforce restructuring and/or transformation
    o Building and refurbishing

  • Ideas, system and qualification development:

    o Procurement
    o Bidding and tendering
    o Framework development

  • Commissioned, funded projects:

    o ESF and EU projects
    o Big Society and NEET
    o Special sector employment projects


Workshop Objectives

The key objectives are to:

  • Explore the importance of project governance
  • Identify what best practice project governance might look like
  • Identify the key governance roles and how they align to organisation structures
  • Examine governance throughout the phases of a project
  • Consider a range of case studies to understand the impact of good project governance
  • Understand decision making within a project environment
  • Examine project controls and understand how they relate to project governance

Related Workshops

NTRL currently deliver 3 workshops that focus on Projects Management, follow the links for an overview of the content and scheduled dates:

An Introduction to Project Management
Intermediate Project Management - Tools & Techniques
Project Governance

Content

Topics to be covered:

  • Project Governance Overview

    a. What is project governance?
    b. Benefits of using project governance and what happens when you don’t
    c. Roles and responsibilities

  • Project Governance during Start Up and Initiation

    a. Decision making and authority
    b. Risk
    c. Tolerances

  • Project Governance during Execution

    a. Stakeholders and stakes
    b. Monitoring and reporting
    c. Project reviews

  • Project Governance during Closure

    a. Benefit realisation
    b. Case studies

Who Should Attend?

This one day workshop is targeted at senior managers who have responsibility for overseeing the delivery of one or more projects or programmes. Previous exposure to, or knowledge of, project management or project governance is not essential however where real life case studies can be used this will add further value to your learning.

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Workshop Style

This training course is delivered in a workshop style. It is highly participative with a blend of presentation, group exercises and debate.  A comprehensive delegate pack is included. .

Numbers

To ensure effective levels of delegate participation, involvement and interaction, delegate numbers are restricted.  This workshop is suitable for groups of 2 to 20 delegates.

Certification

Formal CPD certificates are provided after the event in a form which is acceptable as CPD evidence to many professional bodies and institutions.

Facilitator

The facilitator for this workshop is a highly experienced trainer with in-depth subject knowledge.