The Outcome Assurance™ Framework

The Missing Addendum to the PMBOK® Guide

By: Paul Turner

Narrated by: Paul Turner

Nine out of ten complex industrial, energy, and process plant projects fail to deliver on their cost, schedule, or performance objectives. The statistics are clear: traditional project management methods alone are not enough to assure outcomes.

The Outcome Assurance™ Framework is the missing addendum to the PMBOK® Guide — the piece that project leaders, owners, and executives have been searching for. Where the PMBOK® Guide provides process guidance, Outcome Assurance™ provides leadership direction, governance alignment, and system integration to ensure projects do more than finish - they succeed.

This framework introduces a bold new model that:

• Shifts focus from activities to outcomes
• Embeds accountability and governance from the onset
• Bridges the gap between project management theory and the realities of large, complex project execution
• Aligns commissioning, operational readiness, and leadership into a unified assurance model

For professionals working on high-stakes industrial, process, energy, or infrastructure projects, The Outcome Assurance™ Framework offers a practical, strategic, and transformational approach.

If the PMBOK® Guide is the map, this addendum is the compass – pointing every project toward assured success.

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