Deliverable Product Description
Title
Assurance Planning Quick Reference
Guide
DEL-002
Deliverable ID
Key
No
Commercial
No
Description
Deliverable
Priority
The Assurance Planning Quick Reference Guide serves as the key
reference point for PQAF Assurance planning tools. The guide
summaries the planning approach, integration with governance
and QA life cycle planning frameworks, key components of a plan
(terms of references), typical deliverables, guidance on
implementation and planning time lines and horizons, quality
procedures, acceptance criteria, key assumptions, risks and risk
based approach, dependencies and responsibilities for the
planners. The guide will be tested and improved for our use
community and published for members and the public to access.
P1
This deliverable is one of the key deliverables from this working
group and a draft ready for user testing is expected before then
end of 2016.
Main contact for
deliverable (owner)
Brian Rowe
Tel: +64 21 518-046
Role: Product Owner
Email: [email protected]
Sponsor for
Deliverable.
Jim Obren
The purpose of the Guide is to:
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Objectives and
deliverable purpose
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Provide information to members and the public developing
or consuming Assurance information or products to assist
with developing formal assurance plans or checking the
integrity of plans prepared for them to consume by
assurance suppliers.
The Quick Reference guide is not intended to be an
exhaustive source of guidance or training material for
assurance planning however it may support further scope
and activity to improve PQAF assurance planning materials
in future tranches of work.
Three lines of defence:
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Deliverable audience
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Deliverable use
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Programme and Project Governance, Management and
Leadership resources.
Quality Assurance and Risk practitioners and specialists.
Programme and Project management Office managers and
team members
Audit and Assurance audiences and specialists
Suppliers of Quality or Technical Assurance services
Act as a base document against which the audience can test
a plan for completeness in their circumstances
Provide a single source of reference about the planning
process so that people joining the ‘temporary organization’
can quickly and easily find out what the assurance approach
and plan are about, and how quality assurance is being
managed.
Provide Confidence to various stakeholders as to the
Assurance planning and Delivery approach, controls and
monitoring.
The Assurance Plan Quick Reference Guide/Documentation should
cover the following topics.
Format, presentation
and composition
Derivation and
interdependencies
Skills Required
Quality responsibilities
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Structure
Role Descriptions & Responsibilities
Quality Management Strategy
Configuration Management Strategy
Risk Management Strategy
Assurance Strategy
Programme Plan
Programme Controls
Tailoring of assurance plans
Reference to governance frameworks
Reference to activity life cycle or framework
The following inputs are required for this deliverable:
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See the resource manager or use the SFIA tool to determine the
capability skills you require and provide this information
Verification
Validation
Brian Rowe
Core Planning Group
Role: Product Owner
Role:
This deliverable may require a quality check by the Steering
Committee if sampled by random selection
Acceptance Criteria
Quality standards
Product must meet the
following criteria
specifications
Complies with the PQAF
document template
The following quality criteria should be observed:
Quality
tolerance
Specify what
tolerance there is,
if any, in variation
from these
criteria.
None
Quality method
Quality verifiers
How is this criteria
verified? E.g.
inspection, review,
testing, pilot, etc.
Who is responsible for
verifying the product
against this criteria?
If not known, specify
the skills the verifier
will require.
Inspection
Familiarity with the
ACC document
template
Inspection
Experience in
proofreading
programme
documents
No significant spelling or
grammatical errors
None
Responsible Person
Jim Obren, Working group Primary Chair
Consult Person(s)
Core Group
(Who was involved in
creating this
deliverable?)
Product Reviewer(s)
Sabry M, Jim Black, Rob Weston, Claire Linskill, Tracey Gardiner.
Endorsed by
Brian Rowe, Jim Obren, Paul Ramsay
(Any two must sign)
Product Approver
Pat Thorn, PQAF Steering Group
(Accountable Person)
Target Approval Date
31/12/2016
Inform
PQAF Assurance Planning Test Group
(Distributed to)
Assurance Planning Membership and General Public
Revision History
Number
0.1
Revision Date
27/09/2016
Description of amendments
Draft created.
0.2
28/09/2016
1.0
Released for review and updated with PQAF F2F#5 meeting
feedback
Approved by the xxx
Document Review and approval
Document approved by:
Signed/Date: