Governance here means who meets, how often, and who decides what. ORIGIN runs every engagement the same way, so problems are caught early.
Three levels, three meetings
Every engagement has three levels. Each has its own meeting, its own people and its own kind of decision.
Project Delivery is not Delivery
Project Delivery is the name of this working level. It is not the same thing as Delivery, the function that holds our three practices.
Why three levels
Leaders stay on direction. They are not pulled into daily detail.
Problems are solved at the lowest level that can solve them.
Nothing important waits a month to be noticed.
Two people on one engagement disagree about a detail of the work. They can settle it between them today. Where is it solved?
Problems are solved at the lowest level that can solve them.
Project Delivery is a level of governance. Delivery is a function. They are not the same thing.
Where you fit, and raising things early
Where you fit
- 1Project DeliveryMost team members, every day
- 2Project ControlYour Team Lead represents the POD, each week
- 3Steering CommitteeORIGIN's leaders, each month
The POD is the team that delivers for one client. You will meet it later in this act.
The rule of raising things early
If something is off track, whether the timeline, the quality or the budget, it is raised at Project Control that week. It is never saved for the Steering Committee, where it would arrive as a crisis.
Early flags are valued. Late surprises are not.
A deliverable is going to miss its date. The monthly Steering Committee meets next week. What do you do?
It is never saved for the Steering Committee, where it would arrive as a crisis.
You notice on Tuesday that a client's feedback is five days late. Tell your Team Lead on Tuesday, so it is on Thursday's Project Control agenda, with a new date agreed.
Three levels: monthly direction, weekly control, daily delivery. Raise problems at the lowest level, early.
Before you move on
Three questions before you move on. Type your answer, send it, then check it.
Your answers stay on this device.1Name the three levels, and how often each meets.
The answerSteering Committee every month, Project Control every week, Project Delivery every day.
2Is Project Delivery the same as Delivery?
The answerNo. Project Delivery is the working level of an engagement. Delivery is the function that holds our three practices.
3Something is off track. Where is it raised, and when?
The answerAt Project Control, that week. It is never saved for the Steering Committee.
Early flags. No late surprises.
Raising a risk early is ownership, not failure. Next: AUDIT, FIX and GROW, up close.