What is measured is delivered.
Controls are not reporting. Reporting describes what has happened; controls change what happens next. A programme with reports and no controls simply documents its own drift.
What is measured is delivered.
Baseline
Scope, schedule and cost fixed as a reference, without which variance cannot be measured at all.
Cost Control
Commitment, expenditure and forecast to completion, maintained against the baseline rather than the last forecast.
Schedule Control
Critical path, float and the activities that actually determine the completion date.
Risk Management
A live register with owners, mitigations and the cost of each risk if it lands.
Reporting
A single report that a decision maker can act on, rather than several that require reconciliation.
Assurance
Independent review at defined gates, reporting to the sponsor rather than to the programme.
- The opportunity or requirement
- Decision makers and approval route
- Constraints: regulatory, technical, financial
- Success measure
- Funding position
- Parties already appointed
- Required timetable
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Mandates are assessed on definition before they are assessed on merit.