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02

The framework

What to examine in delivery

Governance, cost, schedule and risk during construction, and the difference between progress and health.

6 domains. Each one names a question with a checkable answer. A domain you cannot answer is uncovered, whatever the assurance plan says about it.

For what actually happens at this stage, and the writing on it, see Delivery & Controls.

02.1

Baseline integrity

Is the baseline currently being reported against the one that was sanctioned, and if not, is every step between the two documented?

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02.2

Change, planned and unplanned

Are changes assessed before they are made, and does anyone examine changes that were made without being assessed?

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02.3

Forecast credibility

Does the forecast reflect what is now known, or does it reflect what was committed?

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02.4

Externally provided processes and services

Where activities that affect the asset have been placed outside the organisation, has the organisation retained the ability to know whether they were done?

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02.5

Interfaces between packages and functions

Has anyone examined the seams, as distinct from examining each of the things the seams join?

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02.6

Competence of whoever is assuring

Do the people performing this assurance understand the thing they are examining, and where they do not, is the gap covered by someone who does?

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