How much Project Governance & Controls can your Organisation cope with?

When mobilising a project within an organisation it's really important that the Project Sponsor and Project Manager agree a list of suitable project governance and controls.

The level of project governance and controls will obviously be deteremined bu the size and compleity of the project BUT equally important is the assessment of how the organisation is going to support and cope with the level of planning, reporting, risk management etc

From a purely business perspective any project incurring expenditure over £50,000 should manage the following PRINCE2 controls

• PID ( and supporting one page Project Charter)
• Plan - level 1 ( plan on a page), level 2 ( activity plan in MS Excel) and Level 3 ( task level plan in MS Project)
• Resource/Budget Plan
• Weekly Highlight or Status Reports
• RAID Log ( you can incorporate a Change Control log)

Don't forget that an application partner will have their own  implementation methodology to integrate with your PRINCE2 controls and then there is ITIL controls to manage down stream of the implementaion.

How mature is your business when working with Project Governance and Controls?