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Programme Leadership & Client-Side Support
Governance of complex programmes
Coordinating multiple internal and external parties around shared objectives, with structured decisions, risks and reporting.
Context
An infrastructure programme involving several internal departments, external contractors and institutional partners, with demanding schedule and budget targets.
Challenge
Giving the project owner a consolidated and reliable view of progress, risks and pending decisions, in a context where every party had its own tools and priorities.
Engagement
- Structuring the governance: bodies, roles, decision paths.
- Consolidated reporting on cost, schedule, risk and quality.
- Running the steering committees and preparing the arbitrations.
- Tracking action plans and the commitments of each party.
Results
- Decisions taken on shared, documented grounds.
- Risks identified upstream and dealt with before they materialised.
- A relationship of trust between the project owner and the partners.
Takeaway
Governance is not an administrative layer: designed well, it is the main lever for keeping a complex programme under control.