Specific Responsibilities of the Project Board

Specific Responsibilities of the Project Board
By The Office of Government Commerce – OGC, UK

The project board’s executive (the SRO – Senior Responsible Owner) is responsible for:

• Appointing the Project Sponsor/Project Director (and Project Manager, where these roles are combined) and agreeing his/her remit and delegated authority;
• Signing off the Project Brief and Project Initiation Document or equivalent;
• Agreeing all major plans;
• Authorising any major deviations from the agreed stage plans;
• Signing off the completion of each stage, including the deliverables, and giving approval to start the subsequent stage;
• Communicating information about the project to the organisation(s) and stakeholder groups as necessary;
• Ensuring that the required resources are available;
• Resolving any conflicts escalated by the project team, client or supplier;
• Agreeing the project tolerances for time, quality and cost;
• Providing overall strategic guidance for the project;
• The risk(s) associated with the project;
• The quality assurance for the project;
• Providing advice and direction to the Project Sponsor/Project Director;
• Approving the end project report and the lessons learned report;
• Ensuring that a post implementation review (or post project review) is scheduled and takes place;
• Resolving deviations from plans or escalating as necessary;
• Resolving conflicts between project team, end users and suppliers or escalating as necessary.

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