In this week’s pod, we were joined by Bahar Maghsoudi to discuss when governance can be too much.Bahar is a passionate chartered Civil Engineer who, for the past 20+ years, has worked on fantastic projects across multiple sectors. She has an idea or two about what it takes to deliver successful projects, working as a team, and pulling together to deliver.The main topics we discussed on the podcast were as follows:
·        Governance is the framework for how project decisions are made
·        If it doesn’t add value, it shouldn’t be there
·        There is a risk that Project Managers will play the system to pass governance approvals
·        Businesses need to empower and give confidence to Project Managers to deliver major projects
·        In order to be effective, governance needs to be done at the right time and the right amount
·        Joint ventures can build more risk into a project due to the differing ideologies of the businesses
·        Listen to your project teams! Delays can be discussed and managed if the management team are aware of the real level of progress
·        Politics can drive the key dates for major government projects. This can lead to poor expectation management if target dates are unrealisticTune in next time when we’re re-joined by Al Simmonite to talk about professional collaboration in complex projects.For more information, blogs or to support our charities visit www.projectchatterpodcast.comIf you’d like to sponsor the podcast get in touch via our website.You can also leave us a voice message via our anchor page and let us know if there’s something or someone specific that you would like on the podcast.Proudly sponsored by:

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