Project Management and Change Articles

Governance Metrics That Actually Tell You Something

Meetings held and papers issued on time say nothing about whether a steering group is deciding well. A more useful set of governance measures can be read from the decision record a project already keeps.

Choosing a Project Governance Model

Most project managers inherit a governance model rather than choose one, and only question it when decisions start arriving too slowly or not at all. Here is how to judge which model actually fits the work.

How Your Organisation Limits or Enables Agile Delivery

Requirements stability tells you which approach suits the work. Funding cycles, decision rights, supplier contracts and release capacity tell you which one your organisation can actually operate.

How Projects Create Value Through Governance

Governance rarely feels like value creation when you are preparing the pack for it. Its actual contribution is to keep deciding, with authority and evidence, whether the work is still worth doing.

Project Governance Explained: Who Decides What, and Why

Governance is usually described as meetings, reports and forms, but what it actually settles is who may commit what, at which threshold, and on whose authority. Here is how to read that on a real project.

Focus on Value: The Principle Behind Better Trade-offs

Focus on Value is easy to agree with and difficult to use. Here is how to make value specific enough to settle a real trade-off, and what to tailor so the question stays answerable.

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