Projects involving project management office governance are rarely late all at once; they are late a day at a time. Most recovery effort on office governance is spent on problems that were visible early. They acquire practical criteria for judging when this part of project and portfolio delivery is working and when it is only appearing to. Benchmarking exercises repeatedly place project management office governance among the areas with the widest performance spread. The method assumes participants will be challenged on their handling of the wider project and portfolio delivery agenda and prepares them for it. It concentrates on the parts of office governance that determine outcomes and treats the rest proportionately. The level assumes working familiarity with the project but no prior formal training in project management office governance. Improvement in office governance stalls when it depends on one capable individual rather than a defined method. Participants leave with a first-ninety-days plan for the practice within project and portfolio delivery rather than a set of notes.
Expected Learning Outcomes
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Design the governance and decision rights for project management office governance.
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Build a register of the risks attaching to office governance and keep it current.
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Manage stakeholders of project management office governance according to influence and interest.
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Plan resource and capacity for office governance against other commitments.
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Design a training and briefing approach that sustains competence in project management office governance.
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Set a realistic target state for office governance and a defensible route to it.
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Assess whether project management office governance should continue at each decision gate.
Who Should Attend
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Officers preparing reports on project management office governance for boards or oversight committees.
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Client and stakeholder representatives monitoring office governance.
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Cost engineers and project controls staff on project management office governance.
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Members of committees that take decisions affecting office governance.
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Business change managers handling adoption of project management office governance.
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Project managers responsible for office governance.
Course Modules
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01
Project management office governance: change control and variation
2 sessions · 8 points
Session 1Closing project management office governance and capturing what was learned
Write down the assumptions underpinning the approach to project management office governance.
Identify the data already collected that bears on office governance.
Plan handover of project management office governance to the team that will operate it.
Agree what will be standardised in office governance and what will not.
Session 2What has to be agreed before work on office governance starts
Define acceptance criteria for project management office governance in advance.
Write the scope statement for office governance including explicit exclusions.
Hold a lessons session on project management office governance while memory is accurate.
Define the decision gates for office governance and what evidence each requires.
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Office governance: scope definition and exclusions
2 sessions · 8 points
Session 1Measuring progress on office governance honestly
Check that records of project management office governance answer the questions likely to be asked.
Archive the decision record for office governance so successors understand it.
Confirm that reporting on project management office governance reaches the people who can act.
Define acceptance criteria for each deliverable of office governance.
Session 2Decision gates on office governance that can actually stop it
Define how the benefit from project management office governance will be measured after closure.
Estimate office governance using two independent methods and reconcile the difference.
Decide what will be stopped to create capacity for project management office governance.
Arrange the handover of office governance so capability survives staff changes.
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Office governance: schedule, critical path and realistic duration
2 sessions · 8 points
Session 1Writing the scope of office governance including what is excluded
Identify single points of dependency in project management office governance and reduce them.
Compare resource demand from office governance against other commitments.
Map stakeholders of project management office governance by influence and current level of support.
Set the review interval for office governance and who attends.
Session 2The decisions in project management office governance that cannot be delegated
Rank the weaknesses in project management office governance by consequence rather than by ease of fixing.
Identify the critical path through office governance and the float elsewhere.
Agree the escalation threshold for project management office governance in advance.
Plan the sequence in which improvements to office governance will be introduced.
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Office governance: handover, benefits and lessons
2 sessions · 8 points
Session 1Estimating office governance without anchoring on the answer wanted
Register the risks to project management office governance with owner, probability and impact.
Assign responsibility for keeping documentation of office governance current.
Measure progress on project management office governance by value earned, not tasks ticked.
Set the change control process for office governance and require cost and time impact.
Session 2Making office governance work when resources are constrained
Establish who is informed, consulted and accountable in project management office governance.
Set out the decisions in office governance that require sign-off and by whom.
Prepare the recovery plan for project management office governance before it is needed.
Build the internal briefing that explains office governance to those affected.
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