Design the governance and decision rights for carbon neutrality projects.
Leading Carbon Neutrality Projects in Large Companies
A working programme in carbon neutrality projects for managers who have to deliver with existing resources.
Course Overview
The estimate for carbon neutrality projects that nobody challenged is usually the one that fails. Scope on the project and portfolio delivery discipline expands through small agreements made in isolation. Content is organised around the decisions practitioners actually face in this strand of project and portfolio delivery, not around theory headings. It is pitched for practitioners with responsibility for carbon neutrality projects, not for observers of it. Participants take away a working set of documents supporting this part of project and portfolio delivery, ready to be adapted internally. Comparative studies of the practice within project and portfolio delivery across sectors find the same handful of failure points recurring. Cases are chosen to expose the trade-offs in carbon neutrality projects rather than to illustrate ideal conditions. Teams frequently over-invest in documenting this aspect of project and portfolio delivery and under-invest in testing it. The final module sets out how progress on the project and portfolio delivery capability will be evidenced six months later.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Build a schedule for carbon neutrality projects with a genuine critical path and realistic durations.
Set the minimum documentation for carbon neutrality projects that is genuinely necessary, and stop there.
Verify that improvements to carbon neutrality projects have held six months after they were introduced.
Manage stakeholders of carbon neutrality projects according to influence and interest.
Plan the handover of carbon neutrality projects so that capability is not lost when key staff move on.
Control change to carbon neutrality projects so every variation has a price and a decision.
Who Should Attend
Cost engineers and project controls staff on carbon neutrality projects.
Project management office staff assuring carbon neutrality projects.
Project and programme managers whose delivery depends on carbon neutrality projects.
Project managers responsible for carbon neutrality projects.
Technical leads delivering work packages within carbon neutrality projects.
Quality staff verifying that carbon neutrality projects performs as designed.
Course Modules
Carbon neutrality projects: scope definition and exclusions
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Building a schedule for carbon neutrality projects with a real critical path
- Define the decision gates for carbon neutrality projects and what evidence each requires.
- Agree the smallest change to carbon neutrality projects that would be visibly useful.
- Establish what evidence demonstrates carbon neutrality projects is under control.
- Map the handovers in carbon neutrality projects between functions and secure them.
Session 2Handing over carbon neutrality projects and proving the benefit
- Prepare the recovery plan for carbon neutrality projects before it is needed.
- Build reporting on carbon neutrality projects that surfaces problems while they are small.
- Agree the indicators that will show whether carbon neutrality projects is improving.
- Record what was learned when carbon neutrality projects did not go as planned.
Carbon neutrality projects: estimating cost and effort
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Reading the current state of carbon neutrality projects honestly
- Identify the data already collected that bears on carbon neutrality projects.
- Rehearse the briefing on carbon neutrality projects that would follow an incident.
- Map stakeholders of carbon neutrality projects by influence and current level of support.
- Identify single points of dependency in carbon neutrality projects and reduce them.
Session 2Making carbon neutrality projects work when resources are constrained
- Identify where judgement in carbon neutrality projects is legitimate and where it is not.
- Review at each gate whether carbon neutrality projects should continue at all.
- Measure progress on carbon neutrality projects by value earned, not tasks ticked.
- Hold a lessons session on carbon neutrality projects while memory is accurate.
Carbon neutrality projects: schedule, critical path and realistic duration
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Pricing every change to carbon neutrality projects
- Agree the escalation threshold for carbon neutrality projects in advance.
- Test the procedure for carbon neutrality projects against a realistic scenario.
- Define how the benefit from carbon neutrality projects will be measured after closure.
- Close out actions on carbon neutrality projects rather than leaving them open indefinitely.
Session 2Managing suppliers delivering part of carbon neutrality projects
- Agree what will be standardised in carbon neutrality projects and what will not.
- Compare the cost of carbon neutrality projects with the cost of its absence.
- Archive the decision record for carbon neutrality projects so successors understand it.
- Establish who is informed, consulted and accountable in carbon neutrality projects.
Carbon neutrality projects: procurement, contracts and suppliers
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1The hard cases in carbon neutrality projects and how to reason about them
- Compare resource demand from carbon neutrality projects against other commitments.
- Identify the critical path through carbon neutrality projects and the float elsewhere.
- Set the change control process for carbon neutrality projects and require cost and time impact.
- Estimate carbon neutrality projects using two independent methods and reconcile the difference.
Session 2Keeping stakeholders of carbon neutrality projects genuinely supportive
- Set the review interval for carbon neutrality projects and who attends.
- Write the scope statement for carbon neutrality projects including explicit exclusions.
- Manage supplier performance on carbon neutrality projects against contract, not goodwill.
- Set escalation thresholds for carbon neutrality projects that work out of hours.
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- Workshop or Program Participation
- Airport Transfers
- Customized Badge
- Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
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At least 3 people
- 5-night stay in a 5-star hotel
- Workshop or Program Participation
- Airport Transfers
- Customized Badge
- Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
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