Responsibilities In addition to the Project Board’s collective responsibilities, the Executive will: Design and appoint the project management team (in particular the Project Manager) Oversee the development of the Project Brief and the outline Business Case, ensuring that the project is aligned with corporate strategies (and presenting the outline Business Case to corporate or programme management for approval where required) Oversee the development of the detailed Business Case Secure the funding for the project Approve any additional supplier contracts (if the relationship between the user and supplier is a commercial one) Hold the Senior Supplier to account for the quality and integrity of the specialist approach and specialist products created for the project Hold the Senior User to account for realizing the benefits defined in the Business Case, ensuring that benefits reviews take place to monitor the extent to which the Business Case benefits are achieved Transfer responsibility for post—project benefits reviews to corporate or programme management Monitor and control the progress of the project at a strategic in particular reviewing the Business Case regularly Escalate issues and risks to corporate or programme management if project tolerance is forecast to be exceeded Ensure that risks associated with the Business Case are identified, assessed and controlled Make decisions on escalated issues, with particular focus on continued business justification Organize and chair Project Board reviews Ensure overall business assurance of the project - that it remains on target to deliver products that will achieve the expected business benefits, and that the project will be completed within its agreed tolerances. Where appropriate delegate some business Project Assurance activities. SENIOR USER The Senior User is responsible for specifying the of those who will use the project’s products, for user liaison with the project management team, and for monitoring that the solution will meet those needs within the constraints of the Business Case in terms of quality, functionality and ease of use. There can be more than one Senior User. The role represents the interests of all those who will use the project’s products (including operations and maintenance), those for whom the products will achieve an objective or those who will use the products to deliver benefits. The Senior User role commits user resources and monitors products against requirements. This role may require more than one person to cover all the user interests. For the sake of effectiveness, the role should not be
Responsibilities In addition to the Project Board’s collective responsibilities, the Executive will: Design and appoint the project management team (in particular the Project Manager) Oversee the development of the Project Brief and the outline Business Case, ensuring that the project is aligned with corporate strategies (and presenting the outline Business Case to corporate or programme management for approval where required) Oversee the development of the detailed Business Case Secure the funding for the project Approve any additional supplier contracts (if the relationship between the user and supplier is a commercial one) Hold the Senior Supplier to account for the quality and integrity of the specialist approach and specialist products created for the project Hold the Senior User to account for realizing the benefits defined in the Business Case, ensuring that benefits reviews take place to monitor the extent to which the Business Case benefits are achieved Transfer responsibility for post—project benefits reviews to corporate or programme management Monitor and control the progress of the project at a strategic in particular reviewing the Business Case regularly Escalate issues and risks to corporate or programme management if project tolerance is forecast to be exceeded Ensure that risks associated with the Business Case are identified, assessed and controlled Make decisions on escalated issues, with particular focus on continued business justification Organize and chair Project Board reviews Ensure overall business assurance of the project - that it remains on target to deliver products that will achieve the expected business benefits, and that the project will be completed within its agreed tolerances. Where appropriate delegate some business Project Assurance activities. SENIOR USER The Senior User is responsible for specifying the of those who will use the project’s products, for user liaison with the project management team, and for monitoring that the solution will meet those needs within the constraints of the Business Case in terms of quality, functionality and ease of use. There can be more than one Senior User. The role represents the interests of all those who will use the project’s products (including operations and maintenance), those for whom the products will achieve an objective or those who will use the products to deliver benefits. The Senior User role commits user resources and monitors products against requirements. This role may require more than one person to cover all the user interests. For the sake of effectiveness, the role should not be