Project Governance

 

Stakeholder Groups and Responsibilities

 

Stakeholder Entity

High Level Responsibilities

Executive Leadership Committee

  • Decision making authority
  • Establishes broad strategic priorities for shared services, technology, and business process investments across the enterprise
  • Monitors and ensures benefit realization
  • Resolves organizational issues
  • Provides executive communications to TBR community

Project Sponsor(s)

  • Provides guidance to the leadership committee for decision support
  • Serves as the primary support and advisory for project milestones and activities
  • Vets ongoing service delivery design (roles and responsibilities, reporting structure, cost allocation, shared services, staffing methodology, governance, etc.)
  • Support day-to-day logistical requirements regarding coordination of activities from a cross institutional perspective

Steering Committee

  • Aggregates priority items from Working committees
  • Provides cross-functional input and evaluation of Shared Services Center implementation matters and any associated technology and business process items
  • Reviews and approves / rejects recommendations for Shared Services Center implementation matters
  • Monitors initiative milestones and benchmarks

Working Committees

  • Provides inputs into technical and functional requirements and designs
  • Performs impact analysis for all project change requests
  • Provides recommendations and prioritized inputs for project matters to the Steering Committee
  • Monitors the pulse of the organization and identifies common needs
  • Communicates regularly with representative leadership on TBR system demands and project / program activities
  • Works with other stakeholders to monitor benefit realization

Change Management & Communications

  • Supports and drives change management efforts across the management and delivery areas
  • Provides leadership and guidance in relation to broad training/education matters
  • Supports development of communications plan and plan components
  • Provides the TBR perspective into final communications prior to delivery
  • Leads the delivery of communications to the TBR community

Program Management Office (PMO)

  • Provides day-to-day management of the project and serves as the primary point of contact for all project participants and stakeholders
  • Works closely with the Executive Leadership Committee and Project Sponsor to ensure goals and objectives are met
  • Establishes timelines and key performance measures
  • Leads risk, issue, and resource management efforts
  • Supports communications initiatives