Assessments, Audits & Reviews
Before implementing business improvement initiatives it is important to build in a mechanism for benchmarking and measuring performance. PM-Partners offers a range of solutions that can be applied in multiple contexts to help you better understand the strengths and weaknesses of your organisation so targeted improvements can be implemented and measured.
PM-Partners offer the following types of assessments as either structured interviews or online:
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PM Competency Assessments.PM-Partners Online Assessments provide our clients with globally accessible, scalable and fully customisable services. |
Whether targeting 20 or 20,000 employees these rapid deployment Online Assessments are a cost effective option to manage project management execution and capability development across an organisation.
Online Assessments tool produces an immediate report emailed to the respondent indicating patterns of strengths, weaknesses, and key recommendations.
PMPartners can use structured interviews or online assessments to rate the competence of individual project staff. Participants are assessed against the PMI Project Management Competency Development Framework standard which uses criteria based on:
Knowledge: the participant’s formal project management knowledge
Professional: their ability to apply that knowledge to their work
Personal: how they behave in different scenarios
The result is a well-rounded appraisal of each participant’s project management competency that can then feed into customised training development or coaching and mentoring plans. This information could also be useful when evaluating prospective staff to have on your project and forms part of PM-Partners’ recruitment & contracting service. Other benefits include:
- Profile staff and baseline their current Competency levels.
- Establish a performance management benchmark.
- Allow for informed decisions in regards to project allocation and resourcing levels.
- Identify education and other professional development needs.
- Develop plans to assist individuals in preparing for formal accreditation.
- Provide a framework for ongoing measurement of the currency of knowledge and competence, for compliance and audit purposes.
Learn more about the PM's Competency Assessments
Organisational Assessments
PM-Partners uses a range of organizational maturity standards to benchmark your organisation’s project, programme and portfolio management capability.
Click here for more details on Maturity Modelling
Project Health Checks
PM-Partners introduces a new service - Project and Programmes Health Check.
The purpose of a health check is to gain independent assessment of how well the project or programme is performing in accordance with its objectives and in adherence with any relevant processes or standards.
Health checks are a very cost effective and quick way of gauging how well the project is progressing, dedicated time is made available and unbiased review conducted.
Ad-hoc health checks can also be beneficial where for example there has been a change within the organisation, to the project scope or a replacement project manager.
Download the Health Check service overview
Online Project Health Checks
These 30 minute Project Health Checks are available at two levels: Project Governance and Project Assurance. The end result of each Assessment is an immediate traffic light report with key recommendations, and a comparison of the project's performance as compared with internationally recognised best practice. These Project Health Checks are aligned with PMBoK (v1.3 2004), PRINCE2 (v2005) and ISO 10006:2003 (Quality Management: Guidelines for Quality Management in Projects).
