Benefits

Until now, modern and on-demand assurance training and verifiable accreditations, were unavailable to the wider assurance community. Organisations were unable to verify the currency and validity of assurance credentials, and assurance professionals were unable to access cost and time effective, readily available assurance training – that recognised their acquired assurance delivery knowledge and capabilities.

Individual Benefits

Global Digital Assurance (GDA) provides individuals with best practice assurance accreditation training, with recognised qualifications and instantly verifiable credentials. GDA accredited assurance professionals are formally recognised by peers, organisations, government departments and agencies, and those responsible for the management of assurance process, for their assurance reviewer capabilities, proven assurance knowledge and assurance review skills and techniques.

GDA assurance accreditation, ensures that assurance review professionals consistently meet best practice standards for the delivery of Gateway and Agile assurance, while providing the additional benefits to their organisations and customers, that includes:

• modern assurance methods for fast-paced digital environments
• review techniques focused to plan, manage, deliver assurance reviews, and produce effective assurance reports
• verifiable credentials which are instantly available to organisations and your customers, via secure and exclusive digital badges
• up-to-date assurance knowledge verified via the secure and industry focused CPD Program
• out-of-the-box assurance frameworks ready to deploy for PMOs, organisations, government departments and agencies
• agile assurance methods, models and individual review guides, which are essential for digital programs and agile delivered projects

For individuals who are driven to up-skill, refresh, update or enhance their assurance reviewer capabilities, knowledge and review delivery leadership techniques, the GDA assurance accreditation programs and courses, offer the following benefits.

• on-demand training accessible via any internet enabled device
• training delivered at pace at a ‘time and place’ that suits you and your career path
• cost effective accreditation training programs with no downtime, no classroom based workshops and true value-for-money
• CPD re-accreditation that is self-managed, real world and industry aligned
• secure digital badges showcasing your best practice accreditations instantly
• exclusive GDA dashboard
  • choose and manage your training programs and career path
  • control and share your accreditations
  • log CPD points
  • self-manage your re-accreditations
  • update and control your profile
  • record and manage your reviews, fellow review team members and contacts
  • access exclusive assurance webinars and forums
  • participate in the global assurance reviewer community
  • make your experience and profile known to government agencies and organisations who manage assurance review delivery teams

Benefits to Organisations & Governments

GDA is much more than just a globally recognised, best practice assurance accreditations and training courses. We provide organisations with an end-to-end assurance reviewer management system (ARMS).

We understand the challenges faced, and the efforts required, when it comes to selecting the right professionals as assurance review leaders and assurance review teams. When this is combined with organisations and governments adopting more agile forms of delivery, the selection and ongoing management of assurance reviewers has become an ever increasingly expensive, labor intensive and often unsustainable exercise.

The ARMS platform incorporates over 30-years of hands-on-experience with large-scale government program and projects, 1,000’s of assurance reviews, development of assurance frameworks government departments and agencies, and assurance reviews coordination and management.  When combined with the largest verifiable accredited assurance reviewer database, ARMS provides organisations with a simple, cost-effective and highly-secure solution for assurance reviewer management, selection and administration – ARMS delivers significant cost savings and tangible benefits, that include:

• one-stop assurance hub with a centralised dashboard for assurance reviewer and assurance reviews management
• readily accessible across any internet enabled device
• remove costly panels and SOAs with a real-time, up-to-date and secure assurance management platform
• instant verification of assurance professionals credentials – in real time
• user friendly reviewer profiles that are simple, elegant, consistent and easy to read
• simple and fast searches using secure and curated reviewer metadata, making reviewer selection fast, accurate and effective
• create reviewer lists that compliment your suite of program and project review types, technologies and specialisations
• create and share reviewer lists that can be shared across internal business areas
• highly secure meeting Maturity Level 3 under the Australian Cyber Security Centre Essential Eight Maturity Model

Recognition & Verification

The GDA accreditations are powered by our secure and instantly verifiable digital badge. In partnership with Credly, the GDA digital badges are the only verifiable digital credential for assurance professionals, including Gateway, Agile and Digital assurance accreditations.

Our digital badges provide organisations with the confidence and security that their assurance review leaders, and review teams, can been readily verified and are recognisable through their best practice GDA issued digital badge, which is monitored and managed by the GDA ARMS platform, in conjunction with Credly.

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