Join hosts Merv Jersak and Tim Jerome as they delve into the crucial aspects of governance and compliance in project management. This episode focuses on implementing effective strategies for governance and compliance, framed within the context of ethics and morals. They discuss challenges like manual data entry, the importance of transparent reporting structures, role definitions, and the need for continuous training and mentoring. The conversation highlights the role of compliance in building trust, mitigating risks, and ensuring project success, emphasizing the integration of technical and human factors.

Main Take-Aways

Strategies for implementing governance and compliance on your projects:

• having good systems, preferably automated systems, in place to avoid the reluctance of project managers to follow governance and compliance processes
• establishing data gathering processes specific to governance and compliance
• establishing clear roles and responsibilities
• establishing compliance reporting
• establishing decision-making and escalation processes
• establishing compliance review milestones
• knowing the laws and regulations and their impact on your projects
• coaching and mentoring your teams in compliance processes
• gathering compliance requirements for implementing on your projects
• managing risk through the establishment of governance and compliance processes
• building trust and understanding through adhering to compliance requirements
• how governance and compliance processes are also human factor considerations for project leadership

Show Notes

Today’s Project Managers Coffee Chat: Strategies for Implementing Governance and Compliance

00:27 Recapping the context of the governance and compliance episodes for this week, and setting the stage for this episode’s focus on strategies for implementing governance and compliance.

01:17 The lack of good systems, especially automated systems, often result in project managers not wanting to take the time and effort for adhering to governance and compliance.

02:14 Establishing data gathering processes to set effective governance structures in place.

03:12 Establishing clear roles and responsibilities across the team and client subject matter experts.

03:56 Establishing good compliance reporting processes.

04:31 Establishing solid decision-making processes and escalation paths.

05:06 Establishing compliance review milestones in the project timeline.

05:45 Knowing the laws, regulations, rules etc. with every client that you serve that must be complied with.

08:44 Coaching and mentoring team members and stakeholders in compliance processes that you will undertake on the project.

09:15 Using requirements gathering to ensure compliance requirements are identified and documented.

11:26 Managing risk through the establishment of effective governance and compliance processes.

15:02 Building trust and understanding, developing relationships are significant benefits of adhering to compliance measures.

18:26 Tying governance and compliance processes to the human factors involved in project leadership where these processes are an extension of your ethical approach to project management.