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
Eileen J Roden BA (Hons) MA (Dist) FAPM MIoD P3GP LicIPD Co-Founder and Director, House of PMO
Agenda
6:30pm - Intro & announcements
6:40pm - Talks commence
8:00pm - Talks conclude with (optionally) post-event networking
9:00pm - Building closes
Synopsis
Governance plays a critical role from the earliest stages of project and programme formulation through to delivery and benefits realisation. Yet it is often experienced as fragmented, overly bureaucratic, or disconnected from how work actually gets done.
In this session, Eileen J Roden explores governance in operation, focusing on how PMOs support effective decision-making by providing both top-down strategic oversight and bottom-up delivery insight. Drawing on real-world experience, the session looks at how governance frameworks, roles, and controls interact with human behaviours, risk, and uncertainty across the project lifecycle.
The session will highlight how practical governance helps organisations balance scope, cost, time, risk, and benefit; supports proactive attention to issues and risks; and maintains focus on value beyond project closure. The emphasis is on governance that enables delivery and innovation - not governance that restrains it.
About the speaker
Eileen J Roden is a leading authority on PMOs, portfolio management, and governance in practice, with over 30 years’ experience spanning hands-on delivery, consultancy, and professional education.
She is the Lead Author of P3O® Best Management Practice, co-creator of the PMO Competency Framework, and Chief Examiner for the PMO Essentials suite of professional qualifications. Through this work, Eileen has played a significant role in shaping how PMOs are designed, assessed, and continuously improved across organisations worldwide.
Eileen is a co-founder of House of PMO, the professional home for PMO practitioners, and PMO Learning, a leading global provider of PMO training and development. Her work focuses on helping organisations move beyond theoretical models to establish PMOs and governance frameworks that genuinely support decision-making, delivery confidence, and long-term value.
With experience across transport, finance, pharmaceuticals, defence, utilities, and the public sector, Eileen is known for her practical, people-centred approach to governance — balancing structure, behaviour, and organisational reality to make governance work in practice.
Spring School Sessions
Week 1 - Setting the scene, project organising for IT projects
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 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)
