DUE Date: 14:00 Sunday 10/04/2016

Word count: minimum 3500

Reference: minimum 20
Referencing Style Harvard AGPS6
Developing a Checklist for Project Governance

25% of Final Mark

The student is to develop a checklist that can be used in doing an audit of the governance of a particular
project. This requires an understanding of governance and the role of an audit in checking and monitoring
the planning and execution of a project.
Governance of company processes and procedures is not new and often follows well established
principles. These principles are usually generic and need to be modified to suit a particular organisation,
and therefore there is no single correct answer, simply guidelines.
The checklist needs to be comprehensive so the student needs to:
1. Research the principles from areas of corporate governance that can be applied to project
management. Find information from secondary sources such as journals, papers, books and data
bases and record all original sources. (25 %)
2. Investigate and discuss the issues that need to be addressed in ensuring good project governance.
This comes from your research in 1.
(25%)
3. Develop a checklist that can be used to ensure compliance with good project governance. This
addresses the concerns you have identified in 1 and 2 above. It must be a tool that can be used for
auditing purposes.
(25%)
4. The checklist must be clear and easily understood with references to sources of information. It
must be in a format that can be projected onto a screen for academic discussion. The student will
present and discuss their checklist in class (25%).
The assignment must be submitted electronically and a backup copy should be retained by the student.
This is an individual assignment which must comply with the institute policy on plagiarism and ownership of
work, as well as the Harvard AGPS6 referencing style.
NB ensures your checklist is consistent with current views of governance.
For your assistance following references are already provided, they can be wrong
use them too.
Thanks
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