Project management - Role
Project sponsor
The senior person who backs a project, owns why it is needed and helps make key decisions
What's it for?
Provides senior backing, authority and decisions when a project needs organisational support.
For example…
The sponsor settles a disagreement over the project's launch date.
When two departments disagree over the scope of a new system, the project sponsor makes the final business decision and secures the funding to proceed.
Think of it like…
The person who commissioned the house extension: they are not laying bricks, but they own the budget and the reason it is happening