Project Governance

Often inadequate, or thoroughly structured but poorly understood, sound project governance is critical. Numerous descriptions and methodologies exist, and while agnostic in this regard we believe the following definition universally applies:

Project governance is the use of institutions, structures of authority and even collaboration to allocate resources, coordinate and control activity and risk on a project or within a business environment.

We do not, however, believe in structure for the sake of having something that looks pretty in a PowerPoint slide or a laminated wall chart. Analytica build project governance structures enabling clients to:

• Define the structures of authority and relevant mandates, accountabilities, policies, standards and associated processes.
• Critically evaluate investment proposals for optimal use of funds and scarce resources.
• Define the ‘desired business outcomes’ (end states); performance measures, mechanisms and overall value proposition.
• Control the financials.
• Monitor EVERYTHING: schedule progress, stakeholder commitment, milestone achievement, leading indicators of failure...
• Measure everything you monitor.
• Protect the project, it's staff and the organisation behind it from risk through enterprise-wide risk management.
• Control the financials.

Our approach to dealing with the points mentioned above has been developed by practitioners in local and international markets.

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