A one-off health check answers the question at a point in time. Continuous Programme Assurance keeps answering it, every week, for the life of the programme. Independent visibility of programme health on a standing cadence, delivered by a small senior squad, so risk surfaces the week it emerges and not three steering packs later. It sits between a point-in-time Health Check and a full client-side embed.
A point-in-time diagnostic is the right tool when you need a read before a decision. But programmes move. The governance that was sound in March drifts by June, the risk register goes stale, and the next independent read is another engagement away. For programmes in active delivery, the need is not a snapshot. It is a standing discipline that keeps the read current and keeps the parties delivering it honest.
The same independence and senior read as a Health Check, held continuously across the delivery lifecycle.
An automated health snapshot drawn from the programme. RAG status with trend, a risk heatmap, and milestone projection. The filter comes off the status so leadership sees the reality, not the version that survived the reporting line.
A facilitated forum with the sponsor and steering committee. The risk register is kept live, decisions are logged with owners and dates, and vendor and system integrator behaviour is challenged where it needs to be.
Trend analysis, intervention recommendations, and an independent read on partner-side performance and the outlook for the quarter ahead. The strategic view that keeps the programme aligned to its business intent.
An owner's representative posture from the client side. No stake in the systems being implemented, no vendor or integrator commissions. The judgement is ours and it answers to you alone.
Predictable, consistent, and defensible. A rhythm the sponsor can rely on and the delivery parties cannot quietly dismiss.
Automated health snapshot. RAG with trend, risk heatmap, milestone projection. Behavioural signals tracked across the programme.
Facilitated QA forum with the sponsor and steering committee. Risk register reviewed. Decisions and actions logged with owners and dates.
Executive review. Trend analysis, intervention recommendations, and partner-side performance assessment.
A Solution Advisor for technical and methodology questions, and a read on vendor responses, within one business day.
Continuous Programme Assurance is an annual retainer with a three-year preferred term and quarterly invoicing. Three tiers, matched to programme intensity.
Smaller programmes or a single workstream that needs a standing independent read without the weight of a full-programme cadence.
The default shape. A mid-market programme in active delivery, with meaningful executive visibility and a live risk posture.
Larger or higher-risk transformations, with Principal-level engagement at the monthly forum and a heavier assurance intensity.
Pricing is sized to programme intensity and shared in a short scoping conversation, consistent with how every Rydel engagement is quoted. Where FocusHQ provides the telemetry layer, licence pricing sits separately and is passed through at recommended retail price.
Continuous Programme Assurance holds no stake in the systems being implemented and takes no vendor or integrator commissions. The read is a peer review, unfiltered because we have nothing to protect in the outcome. FocusHQ provides the telemetry that makes the weekly cadence economical, and where a client runs a different platform the cadence can be delivered another way. The tooling is a means. The judgement stays independent of it.
If your programme is in active delivery and you want an independent read that never goes stale, let's talk about what Continuous Programme Assurance looks like for your programme.