Project management discipline

Governance & Decisions

Clarify accountability, prioritize initiatives, assess change, and plan stakeholder engagement.

Management question

Who decides, who is affected, and which option best serves strategy?

7 focused tools

Frame

State the decision and the audience before selecting a metric.

Confirm status date, units, baseline, source owner, and confidence.

Record the conclusion, decision owner, threshold, and next review.

Available analyses

Rank initiatives against weighted strategic criteria.

Understand communication complexity as teams grow.

Compare current and desired engagement.

Structure choices, probabilities, and outcomes.

Assess a proposed change across delivery constraints.

Clarify responsibility and decision ownership.

Measure the rate of added, changed, and removed requirements relative to the approved baseline.