Recommendation 26

We asked how the IPA’s previous data collection could continue to be used across projects to aid costing and identify effective early warning indicators for project delivery. NISTA told us its intention is to continue to publish updates and collect quarterly data on project performance and acknowledged that there was more work to do in terms of standardisation of the data across projects and Departments. NISTA told us that it had recently published a data standard but this was a minimum viable product, and it needed to look further into project controls to get a better set of indicators. NISTA said it does not have the ability to look at the monthly performance of projects or as projects are evolving.49 Accountability for the delivery of the infrastructure strategy and pipeline