Project Oversight Minimum

While every project should be managed well, there will be problems that require the project manager, a steering team, and a project portfolio oversight role to understand the truth about status and provide transparency to leadership. In this case, systemic cultural barriers makes governance even more challenging. ...

... "A culture of over-optimism held sway, the committee found, and financial management was deficient to the extent that costs and progress were not monitored or reported for the first three years ... " ...

Via politics.co.uk: Minimum competence required

Project Oversight, an Essential Ingredient

CFO has skin in the game, vendor contract has penalty clauses, and oversight / steering team is asking questions. Positioned for success if executed well. ...

... "Tuesday's hearing was the first for the Legislature's IT oversight committee since March 2008. " ...

Via Forbes: CFO's $81M IT project

Systemic Problems Require Project Capability Change

Systemic problems with project management at VA suggest improvement opportunities in the front-end and with inflight project oversight. ...

... "Replacement Scheduling Application: no single leader guided overall implementation, there was no overarching risk manager, no integrated project plan, and frequent management churn, while training money was used for other purposes than the RSA project. " ...

Via InformationWeek: VA CIO

Project Transparency and Oversight

High-risk government IT projects are on the rise as federal project managers share the facts on their projects. This is a good thing as there's significant investment at risk. ...

... "OMB attributed the increase to better oversight of the projects and better reporting. " ...

Via FederalTimes: Project Management