By the time a project is visibly in trouble, it has usually been quietly off course for months. Twelve hard questions across the six disciplines that keep a project honest — answered in three minutes, scored out of 100, with the first things worth fixing.
Whether there's a real baseline — and whether you'd know today, in numbers, if you were behind.
Whether spend is tracked against a forecast to complete, and how fast a cost rise would be noticed.
Whether it's written down who can approve what — and whether decisions actually get made.
Whether the things most likely to derail the project are on a list somebody actually reads.
Whether the people affected know what's coming, and disagreements have somewhere to go.
Whether an honest status reaches the decision-makers on a rhythm they can rely on.
Drawn from your lowest-scoring disciplines. These describe good practice — what happens on your project depends on how it's applied.
A full review goes to the documents themselves — the schedule, the budget position, the governance and the reporting — and tells you plainly where the project stands and what to do about it. Port Jackson Group runs this discipline inside defence and commercial programs.
Opens in your own mail app with your score in the subject line. Nothing is sent unless you send it.