All strands of governance must align to drive project investment, initiation, monitoring and optimum benefit realisation.
About the Spring School
The latest in the highly successful BCS Project Management Group’s Spring Schools series over 4 weeks focuses on Making Governance Work.
Speaker
Dr Sarah Coleman
Agenda
6:30pm - Intro & announcements
6:40pm - Talks commence
8:00pm - Talks conclude with (optionally) post-event networking
9:00pm - Building closes
Synopsis
IT projects provide change and create value for organizations, supporting their ambitions and strategy. They translate organisational strategy and public sector policy into impact and enable competitive advantage; as such, their structure and organisation are crucial to supporting the value and benefits that organizations expect from their IT investment. How temporary IT projects are organised matters to the way they are resourced, governed, monitored and executed regardless of their size, time horizon or complexity. In this BCS Spring School 2026 session, we’ll look at the considerations of organising for temporary projects to enable a foundation for IT project success.
Please come with some reflections on the way your own IT projects are organised - and your organisation’s approach to IT project organising - for discussion.
About the speaker
Dr Sarah Coleman focuses on improving the shaping, organising, mobilisation and resilience of projects, programmes, portfolios and to ensure benefit and impact. She is an experienced practitioner, author, researcher and educator.
Her extensive experience has been gained across central government, public services and corporates including work in digitisation, financial services, telecoms, professional services, nuclear and health amongst others. As adjunct professor at Alliance Manchester Business School she designs and delivers for executive education programmes to enhance project leadership and sponsorship capability, and project resilience. She authors and contributes to professional bodies of knowledge, research and professional journals. Her recent PhD research focused on how organisations evaluate the benefit and impact of projects and programmes following delivery in order to support investment decisioning.
Spring School Sessions
Week 2 - Achieving robust IT project governance for the organisation: Governance is people, and people shape governance - both aspects must be understood to achieve IT project success
Week 3 - Governance in practice: top-down and bottom-up oversight from concept to live operation
Week 4 - Benefits Realisation Management: from plan to reality Followed by a panel session with all speakers.
Ticket costs
Tickets give you access to all four weekly sessions. The slides and recordings will be available only to attendees.
Venue tickets:
- BCS members: £45.00
- Non-members: £90.00
- Students / Unwaged: £22.00
Online tickets:
- BCS members: £20.00
- Non-members: £40.00
- Students / Unwaged: £12.00
(Prices stated are inclusive of fees, and VAT will be added.)
Refunds/cancellations
A refund, excluding fees, will be issued if a cancellation request is received within 14 days of the booking date or by noon on Thursday, 26 February 2026; otherwise, name substitutions will be allowed after this date.
Our events are for adults aged 16 years and over.
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This event is brought to you by: Project Management specialist group (PROMS-G)
