Project Delivery Assurance

The business term Project delivery assurance (System), describes a methodology employed in construction or development projects to monitor the project process to provide a clear indication of the status of that project at any given time.

The purpose of a Project Delivery Assurance System is to provide a level of assurance, to the various stakeholders in that project, that that a given status or specified capability exists (or will exist, at a given point in the future), for the project or process being monitored by the system.

The output from PDAS systems is often provided in the form of a Digital Dashboard, sometimes referred to as a 'Performance Dashboard' or 'Performance Management Dashboard'.

Operations Readiness & Assurance

Commonly referred to using the acronym OR&A, (the ampersand is used and retained in the acronym for clarity), is synonymous with Project Delivery Assurance in as much as both concepts have the same functionality. They both work within the same field, but whereas OR&A is geared to the operations/asset owners viewpoint, a Project Delivery Assurance System (PDAS) focusses on the viewpoint of the project management to provide that same assurance for every aspect of the entire project.

Sources

Although several good sources exist in related fields, such as the excellent book by Wayne W Eckerson entitled Performance Dashboards: Measuring, Monitoring, and Managing Your Business and an equally good one by Trevor L. Young entitled 'Successful Project Management', other resources (either in print or on-line) that further explain this concept are hard to find. Sources that do give some sound information AbOUT OR&A and Project Delivery Assurance can be found here and here .

References

• Eckerson, Wayne W (2006). Performance Dashboards: Measuring, Monitoring, and Managing Your Business. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-0471778639
• Trevor L. Young, Successful Project Management (2000, 2006) 2nd EDition, Kogan Page Ltd. ISBN 978 0 749 44561 4