Government Gateway Reviews

The Gateway review process is designed to make you successful by improving decision making on investment initiatives and ensuring that the investment is aligned to strategic plans.  It also assits to improve the investment selection ensuring that project risks and delivery terms are identified and addressed.

QVC provides an independent project review with key stakeholders and the project team at six key decision points in the project life cycle where potential issues are identified and appropriate mitigation strategies are developed.  The partnership with the project team and stakeholders are desigend to ensure that we plan for success.

The review costs are typically only .01% of the total project costs making them affordable and offer value for money.

Review are 3-4 days in duration and provide a confidential, concise and action based report. It is important to remember that the Gateway process is not an audit.

The six reviews have a direct link to the project life cycle.

Key benefits of the Gateway process include providing key stakeholders with increased understanding of the project key success criteria, scope and outcomes.  It provides a mechanism for ensuring that repeated deficiencies are corrected and thereby increasing the success of te outcomes.

The Gateway Review process is not a stop/go signal it only provies via the use of traffic light reporting the urgency of addressing the recommendations:
•    Red- Critical before progressing
•    Amber- address before next review
•    Green- Potential improvements.