Arthur Stamatoudis
Executive Director - Advisory
Project assurance and health checks
Assurance for complex projects
In the world of major projects, it’s easy to get lost in the day-to-day details.
But small inefficiencies, misalignments, or gaps in delivery strategy, governance or management can put a project’s time, quality and cost at risk.
With decades of experience in complex project delivery and technical expertise that spans sectors and continents, RPS can provide a comprehensive, independent view of your portfolio, program and project performance.
Through project health checks and assurance advisory, we’re here to help you achieve the best technical, commercial, and financial results from your project investment.
Why complete a project health check?
Issues with your business case, governance, project management or other aspects of delivery increase the chances of failure as you progress through the project lifecycle. By completing an independent health check, you can implement improvements rapidly and keep your project progressing to plan.
An RPS project health check provides real time feedback on performance, helping decision-makers to identify key risks before they become big issues. Our assurance approach aligns to the Prince2 Project Management methodology and is informed by decades of experience in complex portfolio, program and project management.
RPS health checks provide:
- Assurance for decision-makers
- Rapid risk prioritisation
- Flexible assessment at any phase
- Easy-to-understand, actionable feedback
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Health checks: where we focus
We focus on common problem areas to give you greater awareness of how your initiative is managing risks and performing against project baselines.
Business case and final investment decision
Why focus here?
A quality business case will enable your Executive Management team to make an informed final investment decision (FID). A quality business case ensures strong alignment to strategy/policy, adequately assesses risks, determines the need for the project and justifies the benefits.
Governance
Why focus here?
Clear governance forums, reporting and approvals are required from the start of the project. Senior leaders and governance forums are strategic enablers of any project, and composition matters.
Project management
Why focus here?
A clear project management framework is vital for project success. The project management model should ensure contracts are being managed for scope creep, agreed baseline schedules are followed, and daily activities managed proactively including risk, reporting and delivery.
Benefits realisation
Why focus here?
A collaborative process to document and analyse potential benefits needs to be undertaken in the early stages of a project. Measuring the performance of benefits realisation ensures the project is delivering to expectation and meeting the needs of stakeholders and the community.
Commercial and contract administration
Why focus here?
Commercial and contract administration is a key risk area on any project which requires proactive management - especially when it comes to mitigating emerging claims and disputes. Other key risk areas include the consideration of market appetite and capacity for the project, risk apportionment and transfer, contractual negotiation, and compliance with tender and procurement policies and procedures.
People management
Why focus here?
Ensuring there is clear planning and allocation of resourcing, onboarding, training and professional development to support the delivery of a project is key to its success. Organisational change management and business readiness activities will help prepare the business and project team for transformative programs of work.
Cost management
Why focus here?
Ensuring project costs are adequately managed is a key priority for any project team. RPS can assess your cost estimation methodology and provide advice and guidance throughout the project lifecycle on best practice cost management. We also support re-estimation of project costs where there is risk in your current estimates.
Risk management
Why focus here?
Proactive risk management is key to a project’s success. It enables a project team to pre-emptively implement remedial action and sufficient controls to ensure key project baselines, such as scope, cost and schedule are not adversely impacted. RPS can work with you to review your Risk Management Framework and provide you with advice and guidance on how to tailor this for your project. Additionally, we can provide you with feedback on key risk areas that require management for projects across a variety of sectors.
Schedule management
Why focus here?
Delivering project to schedule can be challenging, due to unforeseen risks and issues that can arise. An RPS health check can identify if there is a need to update your master schedule and how to best to report on key activities and critical path. We have expertise in alignment of project construction methodology, logic mapping, dependencies, predecessor tasks and key milestones and project phases.
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Executive Director - Project Management
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