Project Assurance & Management

Within today’s business environment, project board members and other key stakeholders involved in sponsoring and governing delivery initiatives at any level face a challenge

The majority of project outcomes can be categorised  into one of three (3) outcome types:

1. Success: a project is completed on time, within budget, and has met all original specifications;
2. Challenged: a project is completed, however cost & time are overrun, and has not met all original specifications;
3. Failure: a project was abandoned or cancelled due to conflicting or differing assurance approaches.

Our experienced consultants are able to measure the health of a project and what techniques can be adopted to provide consistent and reliable assessments of the likelihood that a project is to achieve its objectives.

Using the project assurance framework, we undertake a systematic approach to assuring the success and providing for:

• independent reviews and assessments of plans, associated control frameworks, and overall performance;
• independent assessments of technical aspects of the project, such as systems engineering, quality control, technologies, organisational change management and transition plans;
• participating in project quality reviews and audits as required.

Unlike traditional management consulting firms, our consultants work closely with clients’ business & IT leaders to plan, organise and manage resources to bring about the successful completion of a specific set of objectives (covering business technology, finance, risk management and human resources and all lines of business). We primarily focus on two (2) activities: