Project and Programme Governance for Senior Managers
Overview
This one day workshop enables delegates to understand the reasons why projects fail and to establish the structure and environment to combat these.
You will learn the differences between programmes and projects, ensure that their objectives are grounded and achievable, understand the requirements for effective governance and set up reporting that is effective and meaningful. You will learn to ask the right questions of your project manager and be in a better position to challenge their answers.
Who Should Attend?
Senior managers, project sponsors and project/programme board members who want assurance that their projects can be managed more effectively and efficiently.
Benefits To You & Your Organisation
- Understand your key role in projects
- Understand the most common reasons why projects fail
- Improve setting of realistic and achievable project objectives that are linked to business deliverables
- Understanding the differences between programme and project management, and your involvement in each
- Provide strategic clarity to your project
- Understand what best practice structure and project standards for your project should be
- Establish performance measures to give you the information you need on the project's status
- Manage stakeholders better to achieve objectives
- Promote team work and accountability to improve morale within organisation's culture
- Manage Changes to project deliverables without adversely impacting the success of the project
- Identify the best and most effective methods of project communication
- Understand the pressure points in a project and when your involvement is key
- Using lessons learnt from previous projects
- Closing the project and measuring whether it delivered what it set out to do