article thumbnail

7 Factors of Good Governance

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Projects ideally sit within a governance framework that is bigger than the project team. It’s actually easier to work in an environment where there is governance in place because it gives you boundaries. But what does governance on projects actually look like? Here are 7 factors that make up good governance.

article thumbnail

Project Boards and Project Steering Groups: An Introduction

Rebel’s Guide to PM

These are all functions of a project board (or steering group). Strong leadership in projects is important for success, so getting your project board and/or project steering group set up as soon as you can is a good start. A project board provides oversight and governance for the project. What is a project steering group?

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

What Does Project Governance Really Mean?

ProjectManager.com

Projects like anything that involves a lot of people working together need governance. The government runs a nation and project governance in the same fashion runs the project. What Is Project Governance? You can look at project governance as a framework to help oversee the right course for the project. Structure.

article thumbnail

Organizational Project Management (OPM) Basics

ProjectManager.com

ProjectManager is award-winning project and portfolio management software that has robust roadmaps that can group and organize all the projects in a program or portfolio and display them on one Gantt chart, which has resource management, time tracking and task management features. The goal is to improve organizational performance.

PMO 466
article thumbnail

The Stakeholder Salience Model and How to Use It

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Project stakeholder management and saliency Project management relies on people: you need the project team to get things done, and that team might include members of different stakeholder groups. Dominant stakeholders This group has high power and also high legitimacy to influence the project.

article thumbnail

Stakeholder Salience Model in Project Management

ProjectManager.com

Then there are external stakeholders, who can be customers, suppliers, vendors, subcontractors, the government, the community, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). For example, a community group that is directly affected by the project’s environmental impact may have a legitimate claim to be involved in decision-making.

article thumbnail

Real-life tips for managing Red projects and getting back to Green

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Let them know that there are governance hoops to jump through and that you’ll be escalating the problem, with a view to securing support to keep the project moving forward. That might be a weekly or monthly status report, or a report to your steering group. OK, that something else might be closing your project prematurely…).