Right-sized Governance P4: Governance & Assurance | “Governance” – not a word to get the pulse racing is it
Written by Jonny Baber on
“Governance” – not a word to get the pulse racing is it.
However, every organisation needs some form of delivery governance controls to a greater or lesser degree (the alternative is delivery chaos), but so often we see governance and assurance functions either not working effectively or in some cases almost entirely absent.
Whether an organisation has always lacked sufficient delivery controls, watered down the controls it once had in an attempt to be more flexible, or like many organisations embraced “agile” ways of working without truly understanding what Agile means, right sizing the governance and assurance framework is critical to successful change delivery.
There is no magic off-the-shelf methodology that will seamlessly work, but there are some core principles that should be used to tailor governance and assurance to an organisation's needs:
- Capturing and maintaining a robust “single source of truth” for key change delivery data (something which is often linked to finding the right Tool to manage and maintain this data).
- Having a flexible stage-gate delivery process that recognises change delivery can happen in different ways and does not all need to follow the same strict governance path.
- Focussing on making governance a delivery facilitator – not a delivery blocker.
Get these principles right for an organisation and it will help ensure key investment and delivery decisions are taken by the right people at the right time, and that governance processes are a recognised value-add to the organisation.
Interested in finding out more?
Contact info@changemaker.org.uk or Jonny Baber, Principal Account Director - Change Delivery at jonny.baber@changemaker.org.uk.
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Introduction to Right-sized Governance
Enterprise Resource Management
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