The property assurance team supports agencies to improve the effectiveness of government property operations and projects.
The Property Assurance team provides:
The benefits of property assurance include:
Property assurance enables agencies to make better property decisions. It is founded on a collaborative approach and aims to add value by building capability and providing agencies with system-wide intelligence.
Property assurance provides agencies with a range of strategies, frameworks, guiding principles, tools, templates and advice to effectively manage their property investments.
The Property Assurance team can support agencies with:
Our team provides advice on fit-for-purpose project governance practices including governance structures, board composition, terms of reference and governance reporting.
Our team provides advice to agencies on reviewing business cases against best practice. This may include:
Our team can advise agencies on the development of project assurance plans which include recommended assurance pathways specific to each stage of a project’s lifecycle.
Our team can help agencies to ensure that project risk management processes are robust, project risk registers are complete and risk mitigations are appropriate.
These reviews are important for providing confidence to stakeholders that projects are being delivered on time, to cost and are in line with business case objectives. Our team can advise agencies on how to conduct project health checks.
Performance reports are a critical project management tool that can help stakeholders determine how well a project is tracking against business case objectives. Our team can advise agencies on the design and content of project performance reports (including key project metrics).
Our team can provide advice to agencies on how to access, monitor and maintain compliance with relevant guidelines and standards, including:
Our team supports agencies with a wide range of advisory services including:
strategic growth and transformation initiatives
If your agency is starting a property project or needs general assurance advice or support, contact the Property Assurance team.
The framework supports agencies develop a fit-for-purpose assurance approach for their government property investments. For agencies planning a property project, the framework guides users through the project classification assessment, assurance planning process and provides a fit for purpose assurance approach.
The framework provides a systematic and structured approach to integrating risk management into property operations and projects. It enables agencies to identify, assess, manage and, where necessary, escalate risks to inform decision-making.
The assessment tool enables agencies to evaluate the risks and complexities of a property project. Each project is assigned one of four risk-based project tiers (considering project risks, value and profile) to determine a recommended assurance pathway. For projects with higher risk profile, the assurance pathway prescribes progressively greater levels of scrutiny.
The plan outlines the recommended assurance pathway for government property projects. The overarching objective of applying the project assurance plan is to ensure that the appropriate level of attention is given to projects as they are developed and delivered so that stakeholders can optimise expected outcomes.
The guideline provides agencies with an overview of the health check process during the lifecycle of a project. These reviews are important for providing confidence to key stakeholders that projects are being delivered on time, to cost and are in line with business case objectives.
For a copy of any of the above tools, resources and frameworks, contact the Property Assurance team.