Governance Platform
The Governance Platform is a comprehensive solution for overseeing and managing project groups, risks, issues, tasks, and lessons learned in one centralised location. By integrating tools for project and task management, risk assessment, lesson documentation, and real-time progress tracking, the Governance Platform empowers organisations to achieve their strategic goals with efficiency and alignment.
The Governance Platform also provides visibility through its interactive Governance Dashboard and Gantt Chart, which display timelines, priorities, and critical updates in using visual data tools. Together, these features foster collaboration, improve transparency, and support effective governance across departments.
Key benefits of the Governance Platform:
Centralised Control & Transparency: Consolidates project, task, risk, and lesson management within a single interface, making it easy to align organisational priorities and streamline workflows.
Proactive Risk & Compliance Management: Tools for risk and issue scoring, classification, and resolution ensure that potential threats are addressed and documented in compliance with data protection laws.
Enhanced Collaboration & Accountability: Role-based permissions, time and cost tracking, notes, attachments, scheduling, and @mention functions (amongst others) support collaboration efforts across an organisation, with easy tracking and centralised documentation
Real-Time Insights and Reporting: The Gantt Chart provides visual representations of project and task statuses, making it easier for leaders to make informed, data-driven decisions.
Resource Optimisation: By tracking time, costs, and dependencies in real-time, teams can allocate resources more effectively, reducing overspending or allocation of resources.
Enhanced Decision-Making with Real-Time Dashboards: The Governance Dashboard offers a centralised, real-time overview of project performance, risks, issues, lessons, and tasks. This live data visualisation enables teams to quickly assess project health, identify bottlenecks, and adjust priorities. By consolidating key insights into interactive charts and tables, the dashboard helps make informed, proactive decisions that drive efficiency and keep initiatives aligned with strategic objectives.
Accessing the Governance Platform
Upon purchasing the Governance Platform, organisations can assign tailored access levels through the User Management feature. For further information on the Governance Platform refer to the following Help Centre articles:
Understanding the Governance Platform
The Governance Platform includes:
Project Groups: Project Groups allow you to align multiple projects under a shared organisational goal, facilitating resource allocation, communication, and progress tracking across interdependent initiatives. Group-level permissions ensure all members have controlled access to relevant projects and their associated risks, issues, lessons, and tasks.
Projects: Projects serve as the main organisational framework, consolidating risks, issues, lessons, and tasks under a unified project view. Each project includes settings for time management, scheduling, costs, and priority levels. Projects can be set up individually or under a project group.
Risks & Issues: The Risks & Issues feature helps in identifying, categorising, and scoring risks by impact and likelihood, with the option to convert between risk and issue types as needed. It enables teams to control potential threats, assign corrective tasks, and ensure that risks are documented for both mitigation and compliance purposes. Risks and issues can be set up individually or under a project.
Lessons: Lessons capture critical insights and knowledge gained from completed projects, resolved issues, or mitigated tasks. Documenting lessons allows teams to review what worked and identify areas for improvement, preventing future errors and enhancing organisational performance. Lessons can be linked to specific tasks or projects.
Tasks: The Tasks feature streamlines workflow management by providing a structured, centralised approach to organising responsibilities and deadlines. Each task can be linked to others, offering a clear view of dependencies and enhancing cross-functional coordination. This interlinked structure supports transparency, visibility, and accountability across teams, enabling members to understand the impact of their work on larger project goals. Teams can estimate and log both time and cost for each task, ensuring accurate tracking of resources. With seamless integration into the Gantt Chart and Governance Dashboard, teams can monitor real-time progress, prioritise critical tasks, and adjust timelines to ensure projects stay on track and within budget. Tasks can be set up individually or as associated items to a project, risk, issue, or lesson.
Governance Dashboard: The Governance Dashboard offers a dynamic view of ongoing project groups, projects, risks, issues, lessons, and tasks. Users can monitor real-time progress across 56 interactive cards, including pie, bar, gauge, and burndown charts, which highlight key metrics and insights. Filters, date ranges, and prioritisation settings make it easy to customise the view according to project needs.
Gantt Chart: The Gantt Chart provides a visual timeline for tasks and projects, allowing teams to understand dependencies, track project phases, and monitor deadlines. The colour-coded priority levels make it simple to spot critical tasks, while the option to zoom in and out helps teams manage resource allocations and adjust project plans in real-time.

Frequently Asked Questions
What features are included in the governance platform?
The Governance Platform includes tools for managing Project Groups, Projects, Risks, Issues, Lessons, and Tasks. It also integrates the Governance Dashboard and Gantt Chart, providing real-time visual insights into project progress, task timelines, risk levels, and more.
Can tasks, risks, issues, and lessons be tracked independently or must they be part of a project?
Tasks, risks, issues, and lessons can be created as standalone items or linked to specific projects, project groups, or lessons. This flexibility allows teams to use the platform according to the structure and scope of their organisation's needs.
Who can I contact for further information or access to the Governance Platform?
For additional support or to request access to the Governance Platform, please contact [email protected].