PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Governance on a Page

Governance structure for projects at the Catholic Education Office depends on the type of project.

Step 1: Classify project as a Strategic Project, Business Initiative or Service Area Project, and identify
the associated level of risk.

DESCRIPTION DEGREE OF CHANGE BREADTH OF CHANGE BUDGETARY EFFORT RISK RECENT EXAMPLES

High to Very High –

Project directly High to Very High – Medium to Very High –
complex risk
aligned to and ambitious, disruptive, involves or impacts most of
STRATEGIC the organisation, several
High to Very High – difficult to manage, Catalyst,
contributing to complex change with Finance Transformation
PROJECT more than $500k impacts critical
CECG’s strategic significant effort required service areas and external
drivers, potentially
goals of schools stakeholders
highly visible

Tactical project
Medium –
supporting CECG’s Low to Medium –
Low to Medium – some challenging
BUSINESS strategic goals, involves or impacts one or Low to Medium –
internal and
Enterprise Reporting
moderate, simple changes Project
INITIATIVE with impact on two service areas and up to $500k
expected of schools external risks, but all
multiple service external stakeholders
can be mitigated
areas

Tactical /
Low –
SERVICE operational project
Low – Low – None – minor risks
supporting CECG’s
AREA strategic goals,
minor change, mostly contained mostly to a within existing budget contained mostly to
PROJECT unnoticeable to schools single service area of Service Area the Service Area and
with impact on a
entirely manageable
single service area

Step 2: All CECG projects, business initiatives and service area projects must utilise appropriate
governance. This will be achieved through the explicit identification and allocation of roles
and responsibilities for project delivery, and the delegation of appropriate decision-making
authorities to the Sponsor, Project Manager and governance bodies.

HIGH RISK MEDIUM RISK LOW RISK

Archbishop Director Director

CEC Strategic
Program
Committee
(consult/inform)
Director Strategy SALT Sponsor
Committee (consult/inform)

Strategy SALT
Committee (consult/inform) Sponsor &
Steering
Committee

Sponsor &
Steering
Committee