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QARA ...

QARA is an acronym for Quality Assurance Risk Assessment which provides the outsourcing of your project controls to PCSS as an independent third party.

Quality Assurance ensures implemented methodologies are recognised project management standards, executed by professionals

Risk Assessment of project deliverables in an objective manner providing management with ‘up-to-the-minute' reports as to the projects' health thus allowing them to make informed decisions to ensure their projects complete successfully

QARA capitalizes on ‘Systems Theory' that states:
“A system is greater than the sum of all its parts”

QARA Sub-systems include
a.	Project Management Audits
	i.	Assess clients' project management methodologies against standardised PMBOK benchmark

b.	Scope Management
	i.	Develop a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) identifying deliverables based on the contractual scope of work
	ii.	Review changes to the scope of work for potential cost and time claims

c.	Time Management
	i.	Establish the activities required to produce the deliverables identified in the WBS
	ii.	Logically sequence the activities of work
	iii.	Establish the critical path
	iv.	Establish and assign resources to activities of work
	v.	Baseline the project schedule
	vi.	Project Statusing & Reporting
	vii.	Establish objective progress measurement methods based on relevant industry metrics
	viii.	Progress measurement
	ix.	Progress updates
	x.	Report generation
	xi.	Report output analysis
	xii.	Recommendations and meeting representation

d.	Cost Management
	i.	Establish and assign budgets to activities of work
	ii.	Establish Earned Value Management (EVM) progress 's' curves.
	iii.	Monitoring status of project
	iv.	Updating the budget with actual costs
	v.	Forecasting the cost to completion and cost at completion
	vi.	Controlling costs by measurement against the baseline.

e.	Risk Management
	i.	Risk Identification
	ii.	Risk Analyses
	iii.	Risk Evaluation
	iv.	Risk Treatment

f.	Projects Control Mentoring
	i.	Mentor professionals in the above sub-processes