Project health check services are assessments conducted to evaluate the status, performance, and overall health of an IT project. These services aim to identify any potential risks, issues, or areas of improvement within the project and provide recommendations for corrective actions.
During an IT project health check, a team of experts, often external consultants or auditors, reviews various aspects of the project. The specific areas assessed may vary depending on the project’s nature and scope, but generally include the following:
Project Objectives and Scope
Evaluating whether the project objectives and scope are well-defined, aligned with the organization’s goals, and still relevant. This assessment helps ensure that the project remains focused and delivers the desired outcomes.
Project Planning and Governance
Reviewing the project plan, timeline, and milestones to assess their feasibility, completeness, and alignment with best practices. Examining the project governance structure and decision-making processes to ensure effective oversight and accountability.
Stakeholder Engagement
Assessing the engagement and communication with project stakeholders, including management, team members, end-users, and external parties. This evaluation helps identify any gaps or challenges in stakeholder management and communication strategies.
Performance Monitoring and Reporting
Evaluating the project’s performance monitoring mechanisms, including progress tracking, metrics, and reporting. This assessment helps identify any gaps in performance monitoring and enables timely corrective actions.
Risk Management
Evaluating the project’s risk management practices, including risk identification, assessment, mitigation, and contingency planning. This assessment helps identify potential risks and their impact on project success, enabling proactive risk mitigation measures.
Resource Management
Assessing the allocation and utilization of project resources, such as human resources, budget, and infrastructure. This evaluation helps identify any resource constraints, imbalances, or inefficiencies that may impact project progress.
Quality Assurance
Reviewing the project’s quality management processes, including testing, documentation, and adherence to industry standards. This assessment helps ensure that the project deliverables meet the required quality standards.
Start your Project Health Check journey today!
PM as a Service offers a fixed price package to help in understanding the challenges in your portfolio and highlight opportunities for improvement. For only € 8500,- you will receive a full Project Health Check assessment engagement which includes as follows.
Listen
We plan a free of charge personal intake meeting to understand the project delivery challenges and expectations. We explain the Project Health Check process, the approach around our offering and discuss how your organization could potentially benefit from a Project Health Check engagement. Where required a custom offering can be discussed.
Project Management Assessment
The key to success is to understand bottlenecks or challenges from key stakeholders. To gain detailed information, personal interviews will be planned with – a maximum of 6 – key stakeholders, preferably from multiple layers of the organization. Besides the interviews, we join program- and project meetings and share a questionnaire with all other stakeholders related to project portfolio management. We shape the questionnaire custom to your organization and needs.
Report
After the assessment, we process the results. We transform the collected data into a comprehensive report which we present and discuss during an interactive workshop. The key outcome is a maturity score for each process, we share observations, highlight quick wins for improvement, and discuss a potential engagement for a continuous improvement plan to start your Project Health Check journey.
Continuous Improvement
The result of the Project Health Check assessment will show opportunities for improvement, starting your Project Health Check journey. We do not strive for long-term improvement programs. We focus on the subjects where improvements can directly deliver the most benefits.
Together we will shape a plan to discover the subjects to focus on. We review the assessment results in more detail and plan the second round of interviews. We review related processes, documentation, and tools. We coach stakeholders and prove to them how changes can benefit them and the overall organization.