Posted: April 17th, 2015

Review of the strategic plan and governance charter within a corporation and its application to Project Governance

Assessment Topic: Review of the strategic plan and governance charter within a corporation and its application to Project Governance

Background to the Assessment

There are a number of corporate governance statements of principles that are available in countries around the world. Based on the governance principles which are particularly relevant to their situation/industry, corporations will then develop their own strategic plan and governance procedures which will in turn be applied to projects within the corporation.

This assignment is to identify the governance principles of a selected organisation and then to consider how these principles can be applied by the corporation to projects throughout the project lifecycle.

Scope of the Assessment

In the context of your essay:

• Select an organisation in either the public or private sector in Australia or elsewhere in the world where the strategic plan and governance charter of the organisation are readily available from the web or elsewhere. If you are familiar with a particular organisation you may use that as the basis for your assignment.
• Based on the information from the selected organisation, consider how the governance principles will be applied to projects within the organisation.
• Using the project lifecycle as a base, identify the activities within the overall project lifecycle that will be required to provide input to the corporate governance process.
• Discuss how the Project Manager aligns project governance with the corporate governance.