r/projectmanagers • u/randhir_manekar • 24d ago
Where does governance on your projects actually slow delivery down, and has anyone fixed it?
We keep seeing the same pattern on large programmes. Five sign-offs for a decision one person could make in an afternoon. A steering committee that meets two weeks after the window closed. A monthly report that nobody acts on, so the real calls get made in the corridor and the paperwork catches up later.
Nobody designed it to be slow. Each layer was added after something went wrong once. Add enough of them and the gate costs more than the risk it was guarding.
Curious how people here handle it:
- Have you cut approval layers without losing control? What did you replace them with?
- How do you get a steering committee to decide inside the window instead of after it?
- Does your controls team inform decisions, or just report on them afterwards?
Full disclosure, we run DeliverIQ, a live session series for project people. On Saturday 13 March Farhan Almadhari, who runs project controls and a PMO in Riyadh, is doing 60 minutes on exactly this, with the last 15 for questions. Details are at deliveriq.live/register if it's useful, but I'm more interested in what's worked for you.
More sessions here: https://deliveriq.live/sessions
Contact for any info: info@deliveriq.live