IT Project Health Checks

Sanjiv Purba is an award winning, hands-on Transformational Executive and Board Member with over 25 years of progressive Technology and Business experience within Industry and Consulting Organizations. He has built a long list of enthusiastic client references by delivering large complex business transformational projects as a CIO, Interim CIO, COO, or as a senior advisor. Several large programs he has managed have won client awards and have been identified as examples of best practices by SAP, IBM, and Oracle. Sanjiv works with C-Suite & Corporate Boards of mid-to-large sized companies who want to digitally transform their business and surgically leverage IT solutions such as ERP, CRM, HRIS & Data Analytics to maximize share price through effective implementation and ongoing Operations. A key aspect of this has been to conduct health checks to identify opportunities to make improvements from the current state of their programs by dramatically increasing business value. In other instances, project rescues or other project management interventions were successfully applied to bring programs back on track towards successful implementation. The author has held senior roles at a variety or organizations including Deloitte, KPMG, IBM, Microsoft, and IMAX. His most recent position is to run the digital transformation consulting practices at Prodigy Labs, a division of Prodigy Ventures Inc., based out of Toronto, Canada. Sanjiv has written more than 19 books and hundreds of articles for such publications as The Toronto Star and The Globe & Mail

Section A. Using the Power of the Health Check1. Use Project Health Checks to Drive Business Value
2. Health Check Prerequisites, Types of Health Checks, and Success Strategies
3. Health Check Evaluation Framework
4. The Health Report (s)

5. Roles and Responsibilities for an Effective Assessment
6. Business Value Levers

Section B. Conducting the Health Check Assessments
7. Laying the Foundation for a Meaningful Health Check
8. Spotting Early Warning Red Flags in the Initial Stages of the Health Check
9. Reviewing the Documentation and Other Deliverables
10. Conducting Interviews of Key Project/Program Resources
11. Health Check Execution Considerations
12. Risk Assessment and Mitigation Approaches

Section C. Working with the Assessment Results
13. Interpreting the Discovery Results, Interview Answers, and the Warning Flags
14. Mounting a Project Rescue Intervention
15. Bringing It All Together

Section D. After the Assessment and Next Steps
16. Monitoring Progress through the Health Check
17. Case Studies
18. Conclusion