Just as the medical profession urges us to have regular health-checks to see if our bodies are functioning as they should, project managers should be encouraged to undergo regular ‘project health-checks’.

At Bestoutcome we believe that a programme or project exists only to deliver its benefits and if it fails to do this then it has failed, even if it is delivered to conventional cost, time and quality targets.

As a project proceeds through its lifecycle, it is essential to regularly check that the benefits are on track to be delivered, and if they are not, taking appropriate action. Although the project manager should be checking ‘benefits realisation’ regularly, it helps to have an independent review or project health check to determine if the business case used to justify the project is going to be realised.

At Bestoutcome, we employ experienced programme and project managers who have between them hundreds of years of experience of delivering successful projects. For a relatively small investment, the client can use our health check service to assess the ‘project temperature’. We approach these not as an audit, but more as a way of helping the project manager and stakeholders focus on delivering the programme or project successfully.