Governance for Project Boards

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The Programme

Significant risk is attached to all projects. These can include missed deadlines, scope creep, poor quality, failure to deliver to the customer needs and so on. Our experience has shown that this can have a severe impact on budgets, organisational and personal reputation and a consequential impact on other related projects and programmes. This then creates a serious condition for the effective delivery of the organisation’s strategy.

Governance for Project Boards is an interactive one-day online course helps participants to modify or put in place proper governance structures for use with projects that use the PRINCE2® methodology.  This approach is also useful for Project Boards overseeing projects executed with other methodologies.

PRINCE2 is a registered trademark of Axelos Limited. The Swirl logo™ is a trademark of Axelos Limited.

The PRINCE2® course on this page is offered by Althris Ltd/Affiliate.

Who is this for?

The Governance for Project Boards course is aimed at:

• Managers of significant PRINCE2® projects which have a formal mandated governance structure;
• Members of project boards of PRINCE2® projects;
• Senior responsible managers and function managers working closely with PRINCE2® projects but not members of the Project Board;
• Members of PMO/PSO and other Programme functions and roles;
• Persons who have an oversight role for projects and programmes.

Learning Outcomes

On the completion of this course, participants will:

• Be familiar with the principals of project management frameworks and methodologies;
• Be familiar with the structure and content of PRINCE2®;
• Be comfortable with the roles and responsibilities of the Project Board and the levels of management within the project;
• Have gained an indepth knowledge of the Governance role in Project Management;
• Understand how to apply and monitor the tolerance set for the project and how to apply exceptions;
• Be comfortable with reviewing, critiquing and agreeing to key project governance deliverables such as the Project Initiation Document, Highlight reports, stage plans, exception plans etc.

Course Content

Governance for Project Boards will cover:

• A brief introduction to PRINCE2®
• The duties of the Project Board and principal activities
• Starting Up – the mandate
• Authorisation and approvals
• Project execution
• Project Board information and data requirements

Course Leader

The workshop leader is David McCreery (Athris Ltd) who brings many years of practical project management knowledge, expertise and unique insights to enrich the formal learning of the class. David is an accredited PRINCE2™ Trainer and has delivered courses to a number of corporate and public sector clients. He is also trained and experienced in other project management methodologies and brings this broad experience to bear in interactive and lively training sessions.

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