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
Sue Milton SSM Governance Associates
Agenda
6:30pm - Intro & announcements
6:40pm - Talks commence
8:00pm - Talks conclude with (optionally) post-event networking
9:00pm - Building closes
Synopsis
As information technology is now part of every aspect of our business, we can safely assume every project will have IT embedded in it somewhere, turning a business project into an IT project and vice versa.
Successful IT projects rely on having the right IT project governance in place, complementary to the organisation’s approach to corporate governance. Tensions will arise during IT projects when clashes occur between how projects and businesses are governed, often because Business sees governance as a compliance exercise whilst IT sees governance as a way of managing technological developments. Both are right, but only up to a point.
This is why, together, we will discuss what governance means, the influence people have in creating and shaping governance, how these align with corporate values and legislative requirements, and how we can develop and apply great IT project governance to support successful outcomes and optimum benefits realisation.
About the speaker
Sue Milton is a governance specialist assisting companies to increase their organisational effectiveness. Sue focuses on three aspects for sound business and IT integration:
aligning business strategy and IT innovation with sensible control and oversight for robust and resilient organisations – placing business continuity at the strategic level.
encouraging the integration of safety, security and usability by design within business requirements as crucial foundations for good project governance.
dealing with FOMO (fear of missing out) that allows for swift technology adoption but without strategic thinking that then enables shadow IT to hide in plain sight.
Spring School Sessions
Week 1 - Setting the scene, project organising for IT projects
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)
