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1.1.3 2.1.3 3.1.3 (PROJECT GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT (project management…

- - - - several projects are typically running concurrently 🚘🚘🚘🚘
      - assists in identifying common objectives for the business organization, 🎯
      - identifying and managing risk, and ✳
      - identifying resource connections. 🛣
  - - - • policies and procedures, and
      - • SPECIFIC CONTROL MECHANISM to ASSURE STRATEGIC AND TACTICAL ALIGNMENT with the organization’s respective goals, objectives and risk management strategy
      - WHY? Without proper governance, all aspects of a project may be compromised.
      - • governance structures,
        
        • Depends on the size of the organization and complexity of business/operations.
        
        Governance decision
        
        • through the business case, (a justification for a proposed project or undertaking on the basis of its expected commercial benefit.)
        
        • periodic review of the benefits achieved.
        
        • Involves the project and the functional line organization.
  - - - • hard factors such as deliverables, quality, costs and deadlines; on
      - • Soft factors such as team dynamics, conflict resolution, leadership issues, cultural differences and communication; and,
      - • finally, on environmental factors such as the political and power issues in the sponsoring organization, managing the expectations of stakeholders, and
      - • The larger ethical and social issues that may surround a project.
    - - • To ensure that rules of system development, as they relate to SEGREGATION OF DUTIES (SoD) and responsibilities, are not compromised.
      - • Familiar with the STANDARDS OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT in use in their organization prior to involvement in specific projects.
    - - • is the application of knowledge, skills, tools and techniques to a broad range of activities to achieve a stated objective
        
        such as meeting the defined user requirements, budget and deadlines for an IS project.
      - a business process in a project-oriented organization
    - - begins with the project charter and ends with the completion of the project
      - The complexity of project management requires careful and explicit design of the project management process
    - - are best described in terms of their component processes of initiating, planning, executing, controlling, monitoring and closing a project.

general points

Requests for major projects submitted to :  IT steering committee.

Committee then identifies a project manager.

Project manager, who need not be an IT staff member, should be given complete operational control over the project and be allocated the appropriate resources, including IS professionals and other staff from user departments, for the successful completion of the project.

An IS auditor may be included in the project team as control expert. The IS auditor may also provide an independent, objective review to ensure that the level of involvement (commitment) of the responsible parties is appropriate. (advisory role)