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ASSURANCE

We provided project assurance services which are designed to provide project and business owners with the confidence that project environments have been established and that the environments are sustainable and able to be maintained throughout the projects life-cycle.

Our project assurance services deliver an accurate, balanced and unbiased assessment of the project status, risks and the likelihood of the project delivering the desired or required benefits. We also identify immediate issues which may require prompt solutions or attention.

We address project assurance, through two assurance processes:

External Assurance which ensures that the project is following overall corporate standards or government policies such as mandated in a quality management system, or particular accounting and audit policies. This external environment review usually compliments audit functions already in place within the business.

Internal Assurance which is delivered and utilised to verify that the project is delivering and that the project is meeting required quality criteria and internal project management or business standards.

PROJECT & PROGRAM REVIEWS

Our project and program assurance teams, deliver independent review services,which assist in the overall assurance of programs and their projects. Our independent reviews, ensure that our client's programs and their projects are meeting business expectations, in time, cost, quality and are within agreed tolerances.

Our project and program review services provide strategic benefits, by working with SRO's, project managers, teams and project owners in delivering:

an evaluation of skills and experience required for successfully delivery
a transparent view of the program or project status and the issues and risks to executives, sponsors and stakeholders
an assurance that a program or project is able to progress to the next stage of development or implementation
validation of time and cost targets, as well as scope validation for projects that is realistic and achievable.
a transfer of knowledge and skills to internal resources, through participation in the review process

Our independant review types include;

Project Health Check - an independently designed, and delivered, health check for small to medium projects commencing the start up phase. Designed to reassure project managers and executives, that the project is capable of reaching a controlled completion and desired high level objectives. This review is designed for projects of less than $100,000 in value, has a project team of ten resources or less and usually is completed in six months or less.

Project Review - an independently designed, and delivered, review for medium to large projects finishing the start up phase or commencing the initiation phase. Specifically designed to provide a detailed review of all project artefacts, validate scope and ensure that project controls have been established to enable relevant reporting and controlled project execution. This is review is designed for projects of less than $1,000,000 in value, has a project team of ten resources or more and usually is completed in twelve months or less.

End Project Review - designed to be under taken after the delivery of complex, high risk, enterprise projects. The review analyises all aspects of the project lifecycle from project management and governance, to contracts to requirements gathering, vendor performance, techniques applied and delivery methods. This comprehensive review also audits all management aspects of project and provides validation of desired benefits against actual project outcomes and deliverables. This review is focused at assisting projects owners to understand the positives and negatives that were seen during a projects lifecycle and to also identify benefits that may have been overlooked, or were unforseen outputs of project. The review empowers business owners to save time, better utilise resources and minimise the wasted of funding when embarking on future projects. This review is designed for large, enterprise or complex projects of any value, political sensitivity or high change impact. These are usually defined as costing more than $5,000,000, involve internal and external resources, vendors, contract managers and are enterprise wide and take usually more than two years to deliver.

Program Review - designed to review all aspects of projects currently underway, even up to finalisation phase. This review is a comprehensive review looking at all management aspects of projects and the validation of desired benefits against desired project outcomes. This review is focused at assisting programs to realise benefits and to also identify benefits that may have been overlooked or are an unforseen output of projects. The review also looks at the alignment of projects within program streams and validates dependencies of individual projects. The review empowers clients to save time, better utilise resources and minimise the wasted of funding. This review is designed for programs of work, or large projects of any value, political sensitivity or high change impact. In the case of large projects, they are usually defined as costing more than $1,000,000, involve internal and external resources or vendors and take usually more than a year to deliver.

We are able to supply specialised review resources for specific review requirements. These resorces include qualified and experienced Gateway® Reviewers and leaders to participate in Gateway® reviews at any review gate. Our Gateway® review resources are available as review leaders or as review team members across any project type or dicipline including information technology, business change, communications, engineering and civil projects.