Major Change Projects - The Key Controls

Description

Risk Audit has teamed up with Janet Nudds, an expert in the field of change management and the related project management process to bring you a timely event.

High profile “project disasters” continue to hit the headlines both in the public and private sectors - adding reputational damage to the financial and organizational impacts of failure.

Large enterprises continue to embark on ever more complex major change projects and programmes, typically including significant IT investment, in order to meet key business goals such as competitive advantage, regulatory compliance and cost reduction. However, projects are all too often initiated without a clear understanding of why these failures occur. Unfortunately a past history of success is not a guarantee that future projects will not be delivered late, go over budget and/or fail to deliver the required benefits.

With such high stakes internal auditors are increasingly being called upon to provide assurance to senior management that critical projects will not fail.

This course provides the fundamental guidance required for the auditor to safely satisfy that demand.

Aimed At

Anyone responsible for providing assurance that appropriate governance and control is being exerciesd over major change projects and programmes and seeking a practical and repeatable approach.

Programme

An introduction to types of project, complex programmes and dependencies
Understanding the key risks to project success – including technical risks
How to establish a credible added value role for audit
Building assurance with:
A focused audit work programme mapped to risk, the project life cycle and key milestones
A project and programme health check – identifying early warning indicators and key project management controls
Timely and succinct feedback to management
Ensuring robust controls are built into the project solution
Formalising the learning from projects and audits within the organisation

Trainer Name

Janet Nudds