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Project Assurance

Project Assurance is about keeping your project and its team members equipped with all the tools and knowledge needed to make it a success. It’s a combination of reviewing what’s currently happening in a project (no matter the stage) and what should be done going forward.

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How

How IQANZ provides assurance for your project

As a fresh and experienced set of eyes we’ll deliver a thorough assessment of whether your project’s on track for success or not. We’ll connect with your project team to understand the context and challenges, identify the successes and issues, and then detail pragmatic, actionable advice to overcome or mitigate risks. We’ll assess every aspect of the project to ensure it has the strength and stretch to deliver success.

What

What we assess on your project:

We tailor our Project QA framework for each client based on a number of key factors, using PMI’s PMBOK® and AXELOS’s PRINCE2®. We typically assess:

  • How the project is governed and managed
  • What the project says it is going to do and how that’s controlled
  • How the project timeline is recorded and tracked and how external influences are managed
  • Who’s doing the work and whether they have the time and skills to do so
  • How much it will cost and whether that’s well controlled
  • What benefits the project will enable and how they’ll be realised
  • What challenges the project is or will face and what’s being done to reduce them
  • How the project tells interested people about what’s going on
  • What impact the project will have on the business and how that’s being managed
  • How the project produces a result that meets expectations while keeping the organisation safe
PMBOK® is a registered trademark of the Project Management Institute. PRINCE2 is a registered trademark of AXELOS Limited, used under permission of AXELOS Limited. All rights reserved.

Is it right

How Do I Know My Project Is Right For IQANZ?

We work with businesses and organisations of virtually any size, provided they are running a full project. If you’re currently concerned that your project isn’t heading in the right direction, IQANZ is the perfect team to contact. Or, if you are just at the foot of the mountain and want to keep the project well governed and structured from start to finish, we’re an excellent choice for you.

Process

What Is The Project Assurance Process?

We deliberately keep our assurance process simple and straightforward. You need to get on with the important business of running the project and not managing your assurance provider. Most importantly, we shape our assurance offering to meet your needs.

Small project? Then we have a lighter touch version which still gives you a sense of where the project’s at without taking up half your project’s budget.

Big, complex and scary project? We work with you to agree who of your stakeholders and project team need to be involved and what external context is important. We can dig under the covers to get a view of what’s really going on.

Project Review

When Is The Best Time To Get My Project Reviewed?

Earlier in the life of your project the better. If we can get involved right from the scoping and planning stage, we’re able to help you set the best course towards success. However, we’re realistic and know that for many clients, they engage quality assurance after something’s gone wrong. This is also fine and our team are experts at uncovering the current status of a project and helping you form a plan to get things working again.

If the project has been completed with some significant bumps and bruises along the way, then IQANZ can help conduct a full retrospective review and share learnings to be used in the future.

Helping your project succeed

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Setting project milestones

Staying on track isn’t just a matter of delivering on time, but controlling costs too. We offer some useful tips when setting project milestones.
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How to avoid project failure

Project failure is something every organisation wants to avoid. We touch on some of the approaches to preventing things going wrong.
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Identifying project risks

Risks exist in all organisations. It’s how we prepare, adapt and navigate these risks that makes projects successful. Read our guide on spotting and dealing with risks to a project.
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Understanding project governance

All the structure and processes around how a project is delivered can mean the difference between a successful project or not. Learn what governance is and how it can help.
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What causes scope creep

Scope creep affects every project manager or project team member at some point in their career. In this guide, we explore what some of the causes are.
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Managing project stakeholders

In this guide, we offer some tips for managing stakeholders to keep relationships positive and projects on track.

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Latest Project Assurance Articles

Preparing the business for a project

Preparing the business for a project

Jan 18, 2024 |

Perhaps you’re a business relatively new to the world of projects. Or maybe the business has gone through significant changes that create somewhat of a ‘clean slate’, meaning all processes and practices are up for improvement. You could also be an organisation that is delivering projects regularly but have a sense that they are harder to get through than they should be.

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