Relevant project documents (work products) must be procured from the project team. Documents may include a project background, risk assessment, project plan, and project schedule among others. An inspector requests project documents from the Program or Project Manager. The Program or Project Manager, as coordinator and facilitator of project artifacts, provides the necessary information to the auditor in emails, via SharePoint links, as attachments, hard copies, etc.

Each work product, (artifact, outcome, or deliverable) provided by the project manager will be retained by the inspector for purposes of the planning gate.

Determine the process and methodology used by the project team in development of the work products. Since artifacts can be tailored, the inspector should also identify specific tailoring to determine when deviations from tempaltes, norms, or accepted changes have occurred. Project teams must provide reasons for deviations and the inspector must determine if the rationale is warranted and if the deviation is an appropriate solution to meet project needs.

Using procured work products, tailoring and methodology assessments, analyze the readiness of the project answering questions such as:

• Is the project team setup for success?
• Are the schedul, priorities, and identified risks appropriate?
• Are actual resource expenditures versus planned expenditures within tolerence?
• Are the stamdards amd guidelines known and understood by the release team?