| No | Governance Area | Techniques | Delivery Benefit |
| 1 | Baselining | Comprehensive PID's High risk assumptions RACI Stakeholder management Rules of initiation Deliverable clarity Clarity of scope Templates WBS
Deliverable definitions and sign off exit criterias | Minimises project uncertainty, confusion and surprises |
| 2 | Well Formed Plans | Exploiting ToC
Networks, critical path & critical chain
WBS
Identifying Identify incorrect/missing- relationships
Plan Integrity
Maximising resource utlisation and output
Slack
Contingency- effort, cost & duration
Task granularity/ decomposition
Subordinating merging- paths/ Feeder buffers Resource levelling- on & off the critical path
Levelling generated- contingency
Contract type and impact on Contingency
Buffering and buffer- penetration | Achievable plans, most efficient use of resource, minimise project costs |
| 3 | Rigorous Risk Analysis and Management | Risk types Time to impact Effect of mitigation strategies Hidden risks Controlling risk | Reveals hidden risks, provides true measure of project risk status and measures effectiveness of risk mitigation strategies |
| 4 | Rules of Engagement | Best practice "Must Do's" | Incorporates lessons learnt from decades of delivering tier one projects |
| 5 | Performance Metrics, Measurement, Tracking and Reporting
| Cost Quality Time Benefits | Accurate depiction of project progress and succinct dashboard reporting |
| 6 |
Benefits Elicitation and Management
| Realistic benefits Realisation | Answers the question "should we be doing this project?" |
| 7 | Project Controls and Tools | Metrics Measurement Accurate progress reporting Managing deviations | Application of tools, reuseable documents, templates to support measurement and control |
| 8 | Change Management | Vision Capability Approach Acceleration | A complete method for managing organisational change |