Governance
Objectives
With a project as long lasting and complex as a student information system implementation across four institutions, an established governance structure is critical to success. The key objectives of project governance are:
- Timely decision-making
- Clear escalation process for decision-making
- Clear responsibilities at each level of progressive decision-making
- Empower LSU personnel with significant organizational stature to make decisions in the best interests of the project
- Transparent program/project reporting, decisions, and status updates
- Consistent flow of communication
- Forums for advisement on critical program/project-related matters
- Venues to inform and attain buy-in
Project Leadership
Executive Sponsors
- Champion holistic success of the program
- Critical unresolved issues
Executive Steering Committee
- Advocate for Strategic Project Vision, Objectives, and Scope
- Affirm and enforce project charter
- Complex program management & project oversight
- Assuring project delivery and quality control
- Milestone and deliverables sign off
- Cross-Institution Project Change Champions
- Drive change management agenda with executive leadership across all institutions
Academic Policy Committee
- Making recommendations regarding academic policy questions and issues to the LSU Office of Academic Affairs
- Drive solutions and escalations of risks and issues
Process Governance Committee
- Making decisions on process and non-academic policy issues
- Drive solutions and escalations of risks and issues
Enterprise IT PMO & Student Program Management
- Includes Project Functional Director / Project Deployment Director
- Cross-Institutional Tactical Leadership
- Team management and escalation of operational risks and issues
- Alignment/awareness of dependent projects
Workstream Teams
- Cross-Institutional Tactical Leadership
- Workstream Execution