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Purpose
The purpose of the Project Health-check is to measure both compliance and effectiveness of a specific project. It is a general audit to assess the project’s ability to meet its objectives and compares the project management activities against the organisation’s project management method.
Service Details
The Project Health-check will be carried out by a Project and Programme Management (PPM) Registered Consultant.
The service takes 2 weeks to complete and comprises a mixture of documentation review, structured interviews and focus group(s).
The Project Health-check will:
· Check compliance with corporate policies for managing projects
· Compare the project against good-practice project management (as embodied in APM’s Body of Knowledge)
· Assess performance to-date against original baseline
· Assess the ability to meet current forecasts
Benefits
Conducting Project Health-checks will help organisations ensure:
· The corporate methodology is being used correctly
· Good project practice is captured and shared
· The effectiveness of a project can be measured
· Exposure to risk is being actively managed
· There is a process for feedback from the project team
· Corrective Actions can be captured and implemented
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