Having a second pair of eyes to perform an independent assessment of your project can mitigate risks before they occur
Many latent risks are not always visible on the surface and team members and stakeholders can be blind-sided by being too close from the day-to-day and lacking perspective.
Through group surveys, artefacts reviews, participation in project status, daily scrums and steerco, interviews with internal project and outside subcontractors team members, and senior stakeholders, get a succint high-level 360° view of what’s working well, potential risks and needed realignments. You could then course-correct pro-actively while the impact is still minimized. The following dimensions are normally assessed within a 2-4 weeks engagement (Illustrative Sample) :
Governance
- Decision making
- Sponsorship
- Steerco minutes
PMO
- Project Charter
- Scope
- Change requests
- Timeline
- Financials
- Reporting
- Risks log
- Project tracking
- Cutover Plan
- Go-No Go criteria
- Issue Tracking
Quality Assurance
- Test Strategy
- Testing scripts
- Test results
Business Readiness
- Process alignment
- Operating model
- SOPs
- Business ownership
- Contingency planning
- Sustainment support model
- Customers-Suppliers comm. plan
People Readiness
- Training Plan
- Change Management plan
- Confidence levels
Business Case
- Case for change
- Value tracking vs MVP (Minimum viable product)