Planning / Monitoring · Charter + agenda
Steering Committee Charter
Mandate, membership, decision rights and an agenda that produces decisions.
The problem it solves
The steering committee meets monthly, discusses at length and decides nothing.
How to run it
- 1Define the committee's mandate in three bullets.
- 2Limit membership to people who can decide; everyone else is an optional attendee.
- 3Write the decision rights table: PM decides / committee decides / sponsor decides.
- 4Use the standing agenda: decisions required first, status last.
- 5Publish decisions within 24 hours into the decision log.
What's inside
- Mandate and scope of authority
- Membership and quorum rules
- Decision rights table
- Standing agenda template
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