The business term project delivery assurance (PDAS) describes a methodology employed in construction or development projects to monitor the project process to provide a clear indication of the status of that project at any given time. The purpose of a PDAS is to provide a level of assurance, to the various stakeholders in that project, that a given status or specified capability exists (or will exist, at a given point in the future), for the project or process being monitored by the system.
The output from PDAS systems is often provided in the form of a digital dashboard, sometimes referred to as a performance dashboard or performance management dashboard.
Operations readiness and assurance
Commonly referred to using the acronym OR&A, the concept is synonymous with PDAS in as much as both concepts have the same functionality. They both work within the same field, but whereas OR&A is geared to the operations/asset owners viewpoint, a PDAS focusses on the viewpoint of the project management to provide that same assurance for every aspect of the entire project.