COURSE OVERVIEW

This practical and highly-interactive course includes real-life case studies and exercises where participants will be engaged in a series of interactive small groups and class workshops. 

 

 

Success or failure of a project can have a significant impact on an organization’s reputation, business performance and the confidence of its stakeholders. Failure to deliver a project on time, within budget and to specification poses a major threat to an organization’s strategic direction and financial viability. 

 

 

This course is designed to provide overview of the auditing process of projects and contractors. It covers the key players, roles, project management methods and the different types of project diversity; managing successful projects; discuss how projects and programmes put organizations at risk; auditors involvement in projects; how projects are initiated; how to access initial project risk; and factoring in complexity. 

At the completion of the course, participants will be able to implement proper planning; describe good and bad business cases, project plans and auditing project plans; determine people and risk factors associated with pace and stress, communication, quality issues and auditing project teams; control additional costs and time penalties; plan reassessment; audit mid-stage projects; carryout documentation, change management, quality management and auditing late-stage projects; employ testing, acceptance, rollout and late project corrections; check the benefits and outcomes; decide on project contributions; measure success and failure; review post project and lessons extraction; and apply post implementation audits