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Project Governance
A Practical Guide to Effective Project Decision Making
Buch von Ross Garland
Sprache: Englisch

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Effective project decision making is recognised as a key feature of successful projects. Ineffective decision making leads to project delay and failure.

Project Governance takes readers through the logical steps required for the establishment of a project governance framework for a project or organisation. Starting with problems typical of ineffective project governance, it develops a set of principles designed to overcome these problems and builds a framework based on these principles.

This comprehensive guide explains how to populate the framework effectively, provides the accountabilities and responsibilities of the main roles , and describes how to integrate the project governance framework into the organisation.

Whether you are a project management practitioner or a student of project management, the lessons learned in this valuable handbook make for essential reading.
Effective project decision making is recognised as a key feature of successful projects. Ineffective decision making leads to project delay and failure.

Project Governance takes readers through the logical steps required for the establishment of a project governance framework for a project or organisation. Starting with problems typical of ineffective project governance, it develops a set of principles designed to overcome these problems and builds a framework based on these principles.

This comprehensive guide explains how to populate the framework effectively, provides the accountabilities and responsibilities of the main roles , and describes how to integrate the project governance framework into the organisation.

Whether you are a project management practitioner or a student of project management, the lessons learned in this valuable handbook make for essential reading.
Über den Autor
Ross Garland advises organizations on project and program establishment and development. As well as structuring the governance of large projects and programs of work, he has established enterprise-wide project governance frameworks for local and state government agencies. He works with senior management to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of organizations' delivery of projects through the establishment of high quality, consistent management structures and processes. He has lived and worked in the US and UK and currently resides in Australia.
Zusammenfassung
Surveys list poor project governance and related issues of accountability and stakeholder management as primary causes of project failure

Includes an example of project governance policy which can be modified to meet the needs of most organisations

Provides terms of reference and methodologies of project governance bodies

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Causes and symptoms of ineffective project governance

Confusion regarding the objectives of project governance

Risk aversion

Issues relating to organizational structure

Stakeholder and ownership issues

Solution criteria

Case study 1: Ineffective project governance

2. The principles of effective project governance

Accountability

The principles of effective project governance

3. Building the project governance model

Key stakeholders and the project board

Investment decision group

Addressing the needs of other stakeholders

Mapping the principles to the solution criteria

4. Populating the project board

Project owner

Senior user

Senior supplier

Project director

Project manager

Case study 2: Introduction of full retail contestability into the England and Wales electricity market

5. Scalability

Assessing project risk

The limits of scalability

Main scalability options

6. Implementing the project governance framework

Implementing change

The challenges of implementing the project governance framework

Operationalizing the project governance framework

Case study 3: The challenges of implementation at the Department of Main Roads, Queensland Government

7. The governance relationship between programmes and projects

The programme

The programme owner

Decision making at the programme level

The role of the programme office

The relationship between programme and project governance

8. Towards an integrated project delivery framework

The phases of the project lifecycle

Integration

Appendix I: Example project governance policy

Overview

Applicability

Definitions

Project governance framework for high-risk projects

Project governance framework for medium and low risk projects

Appendix II: Terms of reference and modus operandi of project governance bodies

Project board

Investment decision group

Strategic advisors group

Stakeholder working group

Appendix III: Role descriptions

Project owner

Project director

Senior user

Senior supplier

Project manager

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
Fachbereich: Management
Genre: Wirtschaft
Rubrik: Recht & Wirtschaft
Medium: Buch
ISBN-13: 9780749453060
ISBN-10: 0749453060
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Garland, Ross
Hersteller: Kogan Page
Maße: 240 x 161 x 17 mm
Von/Mit: Ross Garland
Erscheinungsdatum: 03.02.2009
Gewicht: 0,51 kg
Artikel-ID: 101722751
Über den Autor
Ross Garland advises organizations on project and program establishment and development. As well as structuring the governance of large projects and programs of work, he has established enterprise-wide project governance frameworks for local and state government agencies. He works with senior management to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of organizations' delivery of projects through the establishment of high quality, consistent management structures and processes. He has lived and worked in the US and UK and currently resides in Australia.
Zusammenfassung
Surveys list poor project governance and related issues of accountability and stakeholder management as primary causes of project failure

Includes an example of project governance policy which can be modified to meet the needs of most organisations

Provides terms of reference and methodologies of project governance bodies

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Causes and symptoms of ineffective project governance

Confusion regarding the objectives of project governance

Risk aversion

Issues relating to organizational structure

Stakeholder and ownership issues

Solution criteria

Case study 1: Ineffective project governance

2. The principles of effective project governance

Accountability

The principles of effective project governance

3. Building the project governance model

Key stakeholders and the project board

Investment decision group

Addressing the needs of other stakeholders

Mapping the principles to the solution criteria

4. Populating the project board

Project owner

Senior user

Senior supplier

Project director

Project manager

Case study 2: Introduction of full retail contestability into the England and Wales electricity market

5. Scalability

Assessing project risk

The limits of scalability

Main scalability options

6. Implementing the project governance framework

Implementing change

The challenges of implementing the project governance framework

Operationalizing the project governance framework

Case study 3: The challenges of implementation at the Department of Main Roads, Queensland Government

7. The governance relationship between programmes and projects

The programme

The programme owner

Decision making at the programme level

The role of the programme office

The relationship between programme and project governance

8. Towards an integrated project delivery framework

The phases of the project lifecycle

Integration

Appendix I: Example project governance policy

Overview

Applicability

Definitions

Project governance framework for high-risk projects

Project governance framework for medium and low risk projects

Appendix II: Terms of reference and modus operandi of project governance bodies

Project board

Investment decision group

Strategic advisors group

Stakeholder working group

Appendix III: Role descriptions

Project owner

Project director

Senior user

Senior supplier

Project manager

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
Fachbereich: Management
Genre: Wirtschaft
Rubrik: Recht & Wirtschaft
Medium: Buch
ISBN-13: 9780749453060
ISBN-10: 0749453060
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Garland, Ross
Hersteller: Kogan Page
Maße: 240 x 161 x 17 mm
Von/Mit: Ross Garland
Erscheinungsdatum: 03.02.2009
Gewicht: 0,51 kg
Artikel-ID: 101722751
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