Audit and compliance
Fundamentally, an audit is about getting a new perspective on your operation from a fresh pair of eyes, with assessment against relevant standards, complemented with observations and commentary from professionals with experience in the relevant field.
The resulting audit report provides you with a map of opportunities for improvement of your operation. To help you utilise the audit results, Origimi offers follow-up services that help with implementation of remedies and recommendations.
The range of audits offered by Origimi covers formal process compliance in the areas of project management and applied agile methodologies, as well as audits that are focused on practical optimisations and improvements of your operation and projects.
Types of audits we conduct
- Process compliance auditAssessment of your project against methodologies such as PRINCE2, PMI or SCRUM.
- Project optimisation auditA thorough audit covering wide range of project aspects, including project objectives alignment, process irregularities, specific risk misrepresentations, resource and time management issues and organisational inefficiencies.
- Project sanity checkThis is a one-off project review focused on identifying issues at a specific project phase. On projects in implementation phase, the focus is on project team efficiency, on day-to-day operational aspects as well as on alignment with project objectives.
- Project oversightA series of regular reviews and interventions throughout the project lifecycle, providing the project team with advice and recommendations to best run a smooth “uneventful” project.
Generic audit process outline
- Audit planTo maximise the value of an audit, Origimi audits are conceived and conducted as projects in their own right. It is essential to start with audit objectives that are clearly formulated in collaboration with the client. Audit scope and plan are then proposed, detailing audit steps and phases, defined so as to best meet the client’s needs and expectations.
- Data gatheringThe collection of audit raw data is compiled from available documentation, from observations and from interacting with the audited team. Utmost care is taken to minimise interruptions of the team under audit, whilst gathering an amount of data sufficient to best meet the audit objectives.
- Analysis and audit reportIn practice, the raw data analysis and preparation of the audit report take place in parallel with the data gathering tasks. Where relevant, analysis and assessment are carried out against standards or defined established practices. The report includes satisfactory findings, inadequacies with remedy proposals as well as suggestions for improvement and optimisations in areas that are not necessarily underperforming.
- Findings presentationOrigimi complements the formal audit report with a presentation of findings. The presentation format is focused on highlighting follow-up recommendations that address the most significant risks, and on follow-up actions with the most favourable cost-benefit ratio.
- Follow-up actionFollow-up is an often neglected, however critically important audit success factor. Where possible, an outline action plan proposal is already incorporated into the audit report. However, it is the stakeholders in the audited organisation who need to take ownership of the action plan, with clear understanding of significance of the audit findings. Origimi can manage the follow-up action plan kick-off, or actively participate throughout the follow-up process, whether it involves simple process tweaks and scheduling optimisations, or more complex changes requiring internal business case proposals and evaluations.