Governance Health Check
Find the weak joints in your project governance before they fail.
Rate each statement on how true it is for your project today, from 0 (absent) to 4 (optimised). Ten statements, five dimensions, about ten minutes. The dashboard turns your ratings into a RAG view and an honest verdict on whether your governance is load-bearing or decorative.
Decision rights
Who holds which decisions, and whether people actually decide at the right level.
Every significant decision has a named owner and a documented authority limit, and people work to them.
Decisions are made at the right level — the team escalates by exception rather than pushing routine calls upward.
Forums & cadence
Whether governance forums produce decisions, at a cadence that matches the work.
Governance forums produce decisions and actions with owners and dates, not just status updates.
The meeting cadence matches the pace of delivery — forums unblock decisions before they start to bite.
Information & reporting
Whether reporting gives one honest, forward-looking view of cost, schedule and risk.
Reporting gives one reconciled view of cost, schedule and risk — the board pack matches the controls.
Reports surface bad news early; trends and forecasts are shown, not just point-in-time status.
Independent assurance
Whether assurance happens at the moments that matter and actually changes decisions.
Independent assurance happens before gates and major commitments, by people not delivering the work.
Assurance findings are tracked to closure and change decisions, rather than being noted and filed.
Change & risk control
Whether change passes a controlled route and risk drives action.
Scope, cost and schedule change passes through one controlled route with clear thresholds and approvals.
Risks have owners and live mitigation; the register drives action rather than recording history.
Governance exists on paper but is not load-bearing. Decisions stall, reporting flatters, and change leaks around the controls. Treat the red dimensions as the first stabilisation priority.
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The full edition inside the stomwerk platform saves every run, generates a prioritised AI improvement plan, exports a formatted Excel workbook, and (with a stomwerk engagement) adds calibrated criteria and multi-assessor analysis.
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