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The Project Audit
Andy Jordan is President of Roffensian Consulting S.A., a Roatan, Honduras-based management consulting firm with a comprehensive project management practice. Andy always appreciates feedback and discussion on the issues raised in his articles and can be reached at [email protected]. Andy's new book Risk Management for Project Driven Organizations is now available.
Over the months and years I’ve written about a lot of aspects of a PMO, but I’ve never touched on a project audit. In this article I want to provide an overview of what I think the most useful form of project audit is, and why it’s of benefit to an organization to conduct periodic audits.
To some of you this may be a new concept; to others, you may have been subjected to (or performed) project audits already. Either way, it’s worth defining my view of an audit as it may be different from yours. To me, an audit is a review of different aspects of a project by an expert from outside of the project. Typically this will be a PMO function and may cover a number of different aspects--compliance, results, timeliness, etc.
You may have slightly different definitions within your organizations, but I am going to work from this one for this article. I’m deliberately avoiding things like one-off audits of a specific project which are usually focused more on the specific deliverables/challenges of that initiative, rather than on project management as a whole.
The best kind of audit
By their nature, audits can look at a multitude of different aspects of a project, but I strongly feel that they deliver the best results when targeted appropriately. An audit that looks to ensure that every box is correctly completed on a status report is not going to do much to…
By their nature, audits can look at a multitude of different aspects of a project, but I strongly feel that they deliver the best results when targeted appropriately. An audit that looks to ensure that every box is correctly completed on a status report is not going to do much to…
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