Self-assessment
Are your projects delivering what they promised?
20 statements along the performance domains of the PMBOK Guide, 8th edition, and ISO 21502 – translated into the reality of banks and financial services providers. Four minutes, instant results, no registration.
Why projects really fail
Hardly any initiative fails because of the method. It fails because nobody is allowed to decide, because capacity was planned rather than committed, and because in the end deadline and budget are measured, but not the promised benefit. The twenty statements follow the performance domains of the PMBOK Guide, 8th edition, and the requirements of ISO 21502 for benefits management – translated into questions you can answer in ten seconds.
Four minutes
Twenty statements, four answer levels. No free-text fields, no login, no download.
Five dimensions
Governance, benefits, capacity, risk, embedding. You see immediately which performance domain is holding back your project work.
No address
The evaluation is produced in your browser. Your answers are not transmitted and no email address is requested. The only thing counted, anonymously, is that a check has taken place.
A note on honesty: you will not find any quoted project success rates here. The well-known figures on this are methodologically disputed. Instead, these twenty statements test what the applicable standards actually require. How I take over initiatives when they are not delivering is described under Services.
The check
20 statements along the performance domains of the PMBOK Guide and ISO 21502, around four minutes. Answer for your project work as a whole, not for your best project. The check is only worth something if you are honest with yourself.
Your answers stay in your browser. They are not transmitted, not stored, and the check does not ask for an email address. Only when you share your result at the end does it leave your computer – and even then only to the recipient you choose yourself. All that is counted, anonymously, is that a check was started, abandoned or completed, how long that took and which route you chose afterwards – without your answers, without your IP address, without a cookie and without re-identification. What exactly is counted →
Based on: the performance domains Governance, Scope, Schedule, Finance, Stakeholders, Resources and Risk from the PMBOK Guide, 8th edition (Project Management Institute, November 2025), supplemented by the requirements of ISO 21502:2020 for benefits management and governance and by the DMAIC cycle from Six Sigma.
Where the twenty statements of this check come from – and what I changed in the models:
Governance & decision-making
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Your results
Your profile across five dimensions
Your biggest lever:
And the other institutions?
You will deliberately not find comparison figures here. A check illuminates one section; but your organisation is not a section. What your compliance function permits may be prohibited at the institution next door – the same matter, two judgements, two scopes for action. An average conceals that and leads to the wrong conclusions. Sound benchmarking requires knowing the whole picture, not just this one area.
Why I take this approach – and what you should ask if someone offers you benchmarks:
Discuss your result in a first conversation. You now have a picture. The uncomfortable question comes next: which of your current initiatives would you stop if you had to? Send me your result, and I will give you an honest answer in 30 minutes. The first conversation is free of charge.
Discuss your result in a first conversation →Other perspectives
- Sales check – when your numbers don’t add up
- Transformation check – when it is unclear whether an overhaul is needed
- Change readiness check – when the overhaul is decided and implementation is in doubt
- Decision check – when a decision is due and nobody takes it
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Note: this self-assessment provides general information and does not replace an assessment of the individual case. The Legal information applies.
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A self-assessment, not an expert opinion.
This check is a self-assessment tool. It does not replace a conversation or an assessment of the individual case.
The result is based solely on your own answers. It is therefore as reliable as your assessment – and just as subjective. Another person in your organisation, an external auditor or I myself may reach a different result and different conclusions from the same statements.
No commitment can be derived from the result – neither about the state of your organisation nor about the effect, duration or success of any measures. You take decisions on your own responsibility.
Your answers stay in your browser and are not stored. The only thing counted, anonymously, is that a check was started and completed – what exactly that means.
The Legal information and the Privacy policy apply.
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An initiative can be cleanly planned and still fail because of the organisation. The change readiness check tests whether your organisation can carry the implementation – applied to one specific initiative.