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Project Health Check

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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


Deliverables

The following products will be produced:

·       Project Audit Checklist confirming compliance to corporate policy

·       Interview Records

·       Project Health-check Report, covering

·         Exec summary

·         Project Overview (background, status, outlook)

·         Observations (compliance & best practice)

·         Concerns

·         Recommendations

 

Price

£4,800 each.

Price is inclusive of expenses.

Invoices will be issued 50% on initiation and 50% on submission of the report.

Which one is right for you?

Why Use Health-checks?

Quality metrics show that the cost of correcting an issue is many times the cost of preventing it.  

Scheduling a series of Health-checks spread over the life of a project/ programme can provide early indications if problems are looming.  Additionally, the very scheduling of such Health-checks encourages the team to maintain good practices from start to finish and not just for the end project review (how many of us put in a few extra gym sessions before a regular health-check?).

At an enterprise level, conducting Health-checks on a sample of your projects/ programmes enables common issues and non-compliances to be captured and resolved in a cost-effective way.

Health-checks undertaken by independent assessors are free from internal politics, and provide a balanced view.  Using independent assessors means the health-checks are more likely to take because the assessors are not encumbered by the day-to-day issues and interruptions of most projects.

Health-checks from Outperform

Our Health-checks start from as little as £2,900 each and are conducted in a non-intrusive coaching format.  We offer a choice of Health-checks:

  • Risk Review: A sanity check that the risk management strategy is adequate and appropriate
  • Project Health-check:  Will it finish on time?  Processes followed?  Business Case still valid?  Deliverables meet requirements?
  • PRINCE2™ Health-check:  How well does your project use PRINCE2™?  We will give you a % score; a Red/Amber/Green dashboard against the PRINCE2™ components, processes ands techniques; recommendations on how PRINCE2™ can be better applied.
  • Programme Health-check:  Are the changes having the desired affect?  Will the projects deliver the benefits?  Is the programme still aligned to corporate strategy?

We are so confident that you will benefit from these Health-checks that if you do not value the service we will not charge you for the work!