Scope Management

• Developing clear objectives and success criteria/performance boards
• Understanding the relationship between scope management and time, quality, cost and benefits realisation
• Strategies to minimise scope creep and eliminating unclear/ambiguous scope
• Ensuring significant time and resources (financial and human) aren’t invested in areas that don’t contribute towards the approved scope
• Managing governance arrangements and ensuring clear decision making delegations
• Using change management as a tool to drive improved efficiency

Risk Management

• Using Quantitative Schedule Risk Assessments (QSRA) and Quantitative Cost Risk Assessments (QCRA) to assign accurate contingency allocations using deterministic and probabilistic metrics
• Reducing/eliminating optimism bias
• Understanding all inherent and contingent risks, their likelihood and associated impacts
• Risk Registers and understanding how the type, likelihood and consequence of project related risks change within each lifecycle phase

Time/Schedule Management

• Planning, scheduling, monitoring and controlling all project tasks and activities using tools such as Primavera 6
• Understanding a project’s critical path
• Using a common Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) for all project schedules
• Developing Time (schedule) Management Plans to drive standardisation, consistency and quality control across all programs and projects.
• Introducing qualitative/quantitative contingency allocations at different project lifecycle phases inclusive of P50 dates and P90 dates (representing a 50% and 90% likelihood the dates will not be exceeded)
• Strategies to successfully accelerate project timeframes/compress project schedules
• Identify and prioritize tasks
• Identify and allocate resources
• Identify and remove bottlenecks
  
  

Cost/Budget Management

• Providing an intimate understanding of all aspects of financial management
• Approved project budgets- actuals, forecast, variance, contingencies etc.
• Assumptions, exclusions, exceptions, escalation and prolongation rates
• Incorporating benchmarking/external reviews, as well as ensuring inherent and contingent risks are incorporated into cost estimates
• Developing a Total Outturn Cost (TOC)
• Planned Value/Earned Value management
• Techniques to recover the project budgets in the event of an overrun or an unacceptably high forecast.
  
  

Quality Management

• Developing fit for purpose quality criteria and assurance measures
• Strategies to provide investors/stakeholders with confidence/assurance that requisite quality parameters are being achieved.
• Understanding Quality Management Tools; their usefulness, timeliness and limitations
• Strategies to improve visibility over key quality performance metrics

HR Management

• Understanding project roles and responsibilities, supported by a ‘Concept of Operations’ framework and populated RACIE charts (Responsible, Accountable, Consult, Inform, Endorse)
• Strategies to galvanise project teams behind a common vision, goals, objectives, behaviours, principles, ways of working and KPI’s.
• Building and maintaining high performing project team cultures

Comms Management

• Strategies to make sure the right project messages are sent, received, and understood by the right people at the right time.
• The importance of monitoring and controlling project communications through all lifecycle phases
• Using formal and informal communication methods across various channels/mediums to drive project success.

Procurement Management

• Developing and accelerating construction procurement opportunities
• Procurement packaging principles and considerations
• Understanding construction contract types and their pros and cons, including incentivised options (pain share/ gain share)
• Using data driven KPI’s to manage external contracts proactively and efficiently
• Challenge KPIs and incentives regularly and ensure a mechanism to change and evolve them through the life of the contract.
• Actively use contract tools and provisions to leverage the relationship, increase value for money and identify ideas for improvement.
• Understand what drives suppliers behaviour and know how to assess profit vs. excess profit.



Project Reviews

• Control charts, graphs and other methods of analysis to track performance and facilitate continuous improvement.