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Programme AssuranceA programme represents a large, multi-faceted initiative, often related to transforming and improving the business. Often this means a programme is made up of multiple projects and occurs over an extended period. Programme assurance provides confidence in the rollout and continuing function of a programme to ensure the best possible quality, efficiency, risk mitigation – and ultimately success.
How
How We Conduct Assurance For Your Programme
Programmes can be complex, intricate and often unpredictable – and that’s where IQANZ offers clarity. Programmes are highly strategic, so we assess the structural rigour and alignment of intent for the critical building blocks of your programme. We’ll help provide the confidence to progress, ensuring all components are on track and moving in the right direction.
What
Your Programme, Assessed By Experts
Our Programme Assurance framework is based on Managing Successful Programmes® (MSP®).
Tailoring our QA framework for each client, we typically assess:
- How the programme delivers to an organisation’s strategic goals and how the business case demonstrates that.
- What the organisation expects to get from the programme and how these benefits are defined, planned for and monitored.
- How the programme is structured and governed and whether the right people are in the right places.
- Whether those who are interested in the programme are engaged with it in the right ways.
- How the projects and activities that make up the programme are planned and managed throughout its life.
- What challenges face the programme and how these are managed and mitigated.
- How the programme plans to deliver the expected outcomes to expectations.
By doing this, you get comfort that your programme:
- effectively facilitates, directs and guides underlying projects to collectively achieve expected outcomes,
- provides a strong framework for the successful delivery of individual projects, and
- can realise benefits through the capability it’s delivering.
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Is it right
How Do I Know If A Programme Is Right For IQANZ?
Process
How Does The Programme Assurance Process Work?
Engagement
When Should I Engage QA On My Programme?
When crisis hits a programme – be it budgetary, milestone slippage or lack of tangible results, IQANZ can quickly surround your team to help them understand the issues and put together an action plan to make things better.
Finally, when a programme is concluded, you might want external, neutral expertise to facilitate a retrospective and review the success of the initiative. These engagements are highly valuable to shape future decision making with programmes.
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Latest Programme Assurance Articles
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