Project Governance

• The quality of the documentation that informs the decision can also

suffer since managers in the chain can seek to justify their involvement

through ‘adding value’ by making unwarranted or unhelpful changes.

Each change sends the document in question back down the chain to

start again. So potentially consensus decision making not only slows the

decision-making process but adversely affects the quality of the outcome.

• This approach also means that those persons who are best placed to

make project decisions have equal weighting or shared input with

those with only peripheral involvement in the project or with a

particular narrow perspective on the ...