We all know what Project Assurance is, don’t we?

Well actually, no, we don’t. Typically it’s a term that has a much broader meaning than most people think.

No, it isn’t just about project reviews.

Assurance provides scrutiny, insight and confidence that your project is being well managed and that the benefits and anticipated outcomes identified remain on track. Assurance is forward-looking, acting as an early-warning system, helping to uncover current and potential problems. Additionally, it forms an important component of project governance inherently considering risk and impact, and informing decision-making. In this Face to Face event sponsored by the APM Scottish Branch we will hear the good and the bad from Roy Millard who is a national authority on how to achieve efficient and effective assurance arrangements within projects, programmes and portfolio’s. 

In this talk, Roy will give some insights, based upon 40 years of working in projects, into really what is, and what isn’t, Project Assurance; what gets in the way of getting good Project Assurance; and how to avoid making costly and damaging mistakes.

Where confidentiality (and memory!) allows, he will make reference to his experiences of where Project Assurance has been done well, and not so well.

The session will cover:

• What is Project Assurance?
• Why do we have it?
• Who does what to whom?
• How to avoid too much / too little Project Assurance?
• How to get the most out of Project Assurance?
• Project Assurance – the emerging profession.

Benefits of attending: Assurance promotes transparency and accountability, and helps assure the realisation of your business or project benefits. We can all benefit from learning about assurance.

For further information about APM and to book your place please visit the APM website