Enterprise Project Governance

Overview

Enterprise Project Governance is an executive-level program for leaders responsible for designing, chairing, or sponsoring governance on large, multi-workstream initiatives. It moves beyond generic steering-committee best practice to address the specific governance failure modes of enterprise-scale programs: informational meetings mistaken for decision-making forums, escalation paths that exist on paper but get bypassed under pressure, and governance structures sized for a single project trying to manage a multi-year, multi-workstream bet.

Who Should Attend

• Program and portfolio directors responsible for designing or operating governance structures.
• PMO leaders standing up or restructuring governance for an enterprise-scale initiative.
• Executive sponsors and steering committee chairs who want to run more decision-effective forums.
• Risk, compliance, or audit leaders who need to evaluate whether existing governance is fit for purpose.

Learning Outcomes

• Distinguish informational reporting from genuine decision-forcing governance, and redesign forums that have drifted into the former.
• Design escalation triggers tied to budget, schedule, and risk variance, rather than relying on subjective judgment calls.
• Size governance intensity appropriately across a portfolio of programs with different risk profiles.
• Chair or contribute to a steering committee that makes real decisions within its allotted time, rather than deferring them.
• Diagnose where an existing governance structure has broken down and design a targeted fix rather than a wholesale rebuild.

Curriculum

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