PMP Governance, Value & Business Environment Articles

Governance Metrics That Actually Tell You Something

Meetings held and papers issued on time say nothing about whether a steering group is deciding well. A more useful set of governance measures can be read from the decision record a project already keeps.

Choosing a Project Governance Model

Most project managers inherit a governance model rather than choose one, and only question it when decisions start arriving too slowly or not at all. Here is how to judge which model actually fits the work.

How Projects Create Value Through Governance

Governance rarely feels like value creation when you are preparing the pack for it. Its actual contribution is to keep deciding, with authority and evidence, whether the work is still worth doing.

Project Governance Explained: Who Decides What, and Why

Governance is usually described as meetings, reports and forms, but what it actually settles is who may commit what, at which threshold, and on whose authority. Here is how to read that on a real project.

How to Handle Competing Constraints in a PMP Scenario

When scope, schedule, cost and value pull against each other, protecting the loudest constraint is rarely the answer. Four practical questions for reasoning through the trade-off, on real projects and in PMP scenarios.

Project Performance: Data, Information and Judgement

A project can be green on every measure and still be heading for trouble. Here is what to monitor to understand overall project performance, and how to turn the data into sound judgement.

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