Governance

Predictive work gets an ending for free, the day the thing is handed over. Iterative work has to manufacture one, which is why so much of it never formally ends at all.

Three types, separated by one variable: how much authority the office holds. Supportive advises, controlling requires, directive runs the work. Level is a second axis and a different question.

The named group holding authority to approve or reject a change request, and the only body that can move an approved change into the baseline.

A change request that realigns future work with the plan after performance has already drifted away from it.

The transfer of a delivered output to the people who will run it, understood as a transition period rather than a single date.

The formal end of a piece of work, whether because it finished or because it was stopped early. In iterative delivery it is a decision rather than an arrival.

An organisational structure that supports project, programme or portfolio work, ranging from an advisory office to one that runs the projects itself.