The integrity of your strategic portfolio hinges on the ability to obtain unfiltered, objective truth about the health of your initiatives. Reliance on project teams to self-assess their status introduces inherent risk and bias.
Assess Project™ provides the executive office with two scalable, non-negotiable assessment models tailored to the complexity of your investments, ensuring you receive the impartial data necessary for timely intervention and corrective action.
The critical choice depends on the scale and strategic importance of the initiative:
| Assessment Type |
Scale & Application |
Executive Value Proposition |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Peer Review | Small to Medium-Sized Projects | Building Internal Bench Strength: A cost-effective model utilizing an internal, independent leader (not a stakeholder) to evaluate scope, deliverables, and true status. This process simultaneously builds internal assessment skills and identifies future leaders. |
| 2. Quality Assurance (QA) | Large, Highly Complex, or High-Risk Projects | Unbiased Strategic Validation: Requires the engagement of a truly independent, external expert who has no financial ties to any project constituent or vendor. This ensures a rigorous, unfiltered assessment of project health, starting from the initiation phase and continuing at every key milestone. |
For executive decision-making, the source of the assessment is as critical as the findings:
The Risk of "Filtered" Reports: Be highly cautious of partners, software vendors, or existing consultants assigning their own internal assessors. While they offer insight, the report is often "filtered" to favor the entity conducting the assessment.
The Solution: For high-stakes QA assessments, retain an expert who is not affiliated with any constituent organization on your project. Their independence ensures you receive the unvarnished reality—the crucial data point needed to avoid fiascos.
By matching the right assessment type to the project complexity, you move beyond subjective status updates and gain the independent, fact-based intelligence required to govern your strategic portfolio effectively.
