Assurance Health Checks
Objective: In compliance with government standards, our client sought performance assessments and recommendations for multiple ‘level 1’ projects within a program of work in each of their respective stages of the governance lifecycle.
Deliverables:
- Kickoff meeting with Senior Responsible Owner (SRO) to agree stakeholders, process, timeframe, expectations, and key areas of concern to probe.
- Review of Project Assurance Plans for each project.
- Review of multiple projects artefacts (over 70) related to governance, reporting, controls, and deliverables.
- Individual interviews with multiple stakeholders
- Collation of evidence for findings against the seven perspectives:
- Organisational Governance
- Management Control
- Benefits Management
- Risk Management
- Stakeholder Management
- Finance Management
- Resource Management
- Walkthrough with SRO the draft General Health Check Report and release of Final Report addressing all three projects and comprising of:
- Observations and Findings
- Recommendations (prioritised as Critical, Essential and Suggested Improvements)
- Delivery Confidence rating for each Project and across each Perspective
- Suggested Response / Action Plan (value-add).
Outcomes:
- The customer SRO accepted the draft General Health Check Report with recommendations without any amendments.
- Value-added information was well received by both the customer and the overseeing assurance unit.
- The customer and project management teams received independent, evidence-based and pragmatic advisory towards addressing each area of weakness.
- myP3 received commendation from both the SRO and the overseeing assurance unit for the organisation that the report was of extremely high quality and fit for purpose.