IT project governance in the public administration – Development of a checks-and-balances-model and it’s validation based on a case study

Further to literature references, and building inter alia of COBIT, this document provides an analysis of the control objectives in respect of IT project governance. It is clear from project management literature that insufficient emphasis is placed upon project governance in its own right and that currently governance in respect of larger projects, if indeed it is implemented at all, is enacted at too low a level within the hierarchy. This leads to the proposal of a dedicated project governance model oriented around corporate management which will manage via checks and balances between administration management, the department initiating a project, the finance department and project management. Leading on from this, an analysis will be undertaken of an IT project for the Swiss Federal Administration that got into serious trouble and was then cancelled. This analysis employs the \u27checks and balances model\u27 to examine the interactions in play within that project