Precision Insights | Precision Consulting Corporation https://precisionconsulting.com.au/insights/ Precision Insights from Precision Consulting, founded in Sydney in 1996: practitioner guidance on programme assurance, recovery, Gateway reviews and AI. en-au Copyright Precision Consulting Corporation Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +1000 SRO responsibilities for an assurance review start 90 days before the review team arrives https://precisionconsulting.com.au/insights/sro-responsibilities/ https://precisionconsulting.com.au/insights/sro-responsibilities/ Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +1000 Government assurance An assurance review lasts a few days, and the Senior Responsible Official remains accountable for the programme it examines. The SROs who gain most spend the three months before it on the evidence and the people, then leave the reviewers to work. Beyond agentic: AI in the PMO needs one bar, set once, before every team sets its own https://precisionconsulting.com.au/insights/ai-in-the-pmo/ https://precisionconsulting.com.au/insights/ai-in-the-pmo/ Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +1000 AI in the portfolio office Every major portfolio platform now ships its own AI agent, and each one governs itself. The offices that gain most will name the decisions AI must improve, hold every tool to one standard, and prove the gain. Programme recovery is decided in the first six weeks https://precisionconsulting.com.au/insights/programme-recovery/ https://precisionconsulting.com.au/insights/programme-recovery/ Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 +1000 Programme recovery A programme in trouble rarely fails for want of effort. It fails because the plan it reports against stopped describing reality months earlier, and recovery starts by replacing that plan with the truth. Gateway review readiness starts with the decision the gate exists to test https://precisionconsulting.com.au/insights/gateway-review/ https://precisionconsulting.com.au/insights/gateway-review/ Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +1000 Government assurance A Gateway review is a short, independent peer review of a government programme at a decision point, run under a jurisdiction's assurance framework. The programmes that do well prepare the decision first and the documents second. A project health check is worth most before anyone asks for one https://precisionconsulting.com.au/insights/project-health-check/ https://precisionconsulting.com.au/insights/project-health-check/ Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +1000 Independent assurance A project health check is an independent, evidence-based read on whether a programme will deliver what it promised. Its value depends on timing: commissioned early it creates options, and commissioned late it mostly confirms what the budget already shows.