Doing a honest project health check - Are your projects really green?

A regular diagnostic check of the health of your business projects can offer valuable insights to determine high priority areas for remediation and focus. Being proactive rather than reactive using the information gained from a health check can help solve issues before they become problems and capitalise on strengths to successfully execute projects that  actually deliver the desired business outcome.
 
Collagis employs a comprehensive health check for business projects. The diagnostic health check addresses factors that influence successful project implementation and avoid common execution issues.
 
Following are some of the categories and the questions used to diagnose the health of business projects.
 
Stakeholder Management 

• How are key stakeholders kept aware of status and key issues?
• What issues needed to be escalated, and what happened?
• How has the vision and benefits been communicated to impacted stakeholders?

 
Sponsorship

• Have Steering Committees been effective for decision making?
• How often is the Sponsor engaged?

 
Clear Business Case and Strategy Alignment

• Was there any Risk or Contingency allocation included?
• Who reviewed and approved the numbers?
• Have the Project Financials remained the same?

 
Solution Design

• Have functional and non functional requirements been considered?
• Were the Requirements well defined and socialised with all critical stakeholders?
• How does the chosen solution link back to the original requirements?

 
Project Management

• Was a particular methodology followed?
• What is the Scope and Deliverables Description document?
• How well are  the projects being managed?

 
Project Team Expertise & Execution

• Are all project team members clear about their Responsibilities in relation to the Project?
• How were resources selected and onboarded?
• How well are the Teams working together within the project and across key stakeholders?

Planning, Dependencies, Risk, Issue, Quality Management

• Is there a risk plan in place?
• How often are Risks and Issues reviewed and updated, and by whom?
• What are the key Issues / challenges?
• How are dependencies being managed?​

Reporting & Governance

• How often are status reports and financials updated?
• How is the Financial Tracking being completed?
• Is there a clear governance structure for Decision making?
• Are there a clear governance cadence?
  

 
Vendor Management

• How were vendors selected?
• What are the Vendor's positive and negative performance aspects?

 
An expert analysis of the responses to these and many other questions available can result in more effective management of your business and improved productivity and growth. 

Collagis has extensive experience in helping organisations with project health checks. Our program and change services, ensure that organisations are enabled for best-practice execution. We offer services across program governance, program and project delivery, change management, business analytics and process design - from strategic business advice through to coaching, delivery and embedded teams.  If you're ready to take your next step in your project,  we'd love to hear from you.

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