Your concern

You have a number of projects grouped into a portfolio of programmes and realise you need credible, relevant analysis of their viability and performance in order to direct corrective action and prioritise resources. In addition, you:

• Lack clear and reliable visibility of how projects are performing • Worry that bad news is being filtered out as it rises through the organisation or is being drowned in volumes of data; and • Are uncertain as to whether best practice is being shared across the programme enabling optimal benefits to be delivered.

How we can help you Our portfolio assurance approach is to set-up a small team to provide independent, outcome focused, and constructive assurance directly to your organisation’s board. Designed to fit our clients’ organisation and governance arrangements, and the scale and scope of their project portfolio, typical outline steps are:

• The portfolio is prioritised on inherent risk which includes the PR risk, as well as traditional delivery and cost risk. This provides a more sophisticated mechanism than simple project spend and allows focus of management effort on high impact projects. • Independent (of delivery team and line management) reviews of the high impact projects (e.g. independent third party technical reviews, peer reviews etc.) • The results of the reviews are synthesised with regular management reports to provide an independent commentary on the portfolio. • The commentary report is fed into appropriate governance and management forums for action.