Plan handover and benefit realisation for smart grid projects.
Leading Smart Grid Projects to Modernise the Electricity Sector
Build a working method for smart grid projects that stands up to scrutiny and survives daily pressure.
📍 Abu Dhabi🗓️ 5 training days📚 4 modules🎓 Accredited certificate
5intensive training days
4scientific modules
8training sessions
32detailed points
Course Overview
Projects involving smart grid projects are rarely late all at once; they are late a day at a time. The estimate for this part of project and portfolio delivery that nobody challenged is usually the one that fails. The course sets out a working method for this area of project and portfolio delivery that participants can apply the week they return. Exercises escalate in difficulty, ending with the ambiguous situations that make smart grid projects hard in practice. Progress on the project and portfolio delivery capability is usually lost in the gap between approval and execution. Participants gain a realistic view of what the practice within project and portfolio delivery costs and what it returns. Organisations that document smart grid projects properly resolve disputes about it far more quickly. The content is relevant to those who own this strand of project and portfolio delivery and to those who are held accountable for its results. The final session converts the week's work on the project and portfolio delivery capability into commitments with owners and dates.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Anticipate the objections that smart grid projects will attract internally and answer them in advance.
Choose the delivery approach for smart grid projects — predictive, adaptive or hybrid — deliberately.
Set acceptance criteria for smart grid projects before work begins rather than after.
Track progress on smart grid projects by earned value rather than by activity completed.
Design a practical operating method for smart grid projects that fits the organisation's size and maturity.
Build the reporting on smart grid projects that gives early warning rather than reassurance.
Who Should Attend
Business change managers handling adoption of smart grid projects.
Project management office staff assuring smart grid projects.
Risk managers supporting smart grid projects.
Newly appointed managers taking on smart grid projects for the first time.
Project and programme managers whose delivery depends on smart grid projects.
Technical leads delivering work packages within smart grid projects.
Course Modules
Smart grid projects: change control and variation
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Closing smart grid projects and capturing what was learned
- Arrange the handover of smart grid projects so capability survives staff changes.
- Compare resource demand from smart grid projects against other commitments.
- Rank the weaknesses in smart grid projects by consequence rather than by ease of fixing.
- Build the work breakdown for smart grid projects to a level that can be estimated.
Session 2Keeping stakeholders of smart grid projects genuinely supportive
- Define the decision gates for smart grid projects and what evidence each requires.
- Set out how exceptions to smart grid projects are requested and approved.
- Agree what will be standardised in smart grid projects and what will not.
- Identify the data already collected that bears on smart grid projects.
Smart grid projects: scope definition and exclusions
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Building a schedule for smart grid projects with a real critical path
- Identify the critical path through smart grid projects and the float elsewhere.
- Review at each gate whether smart grid projects should continue at all.
- Distinguish symptoms from causes when smart grid projects underperforms.
- Confirm that those complying with smart grid projects understand why it exists.
Session 2The risks to smart grid projects nobody wants to raise
- Define how the benefit from smart grid projects will be measured after closure.
- Test the procedure for smart grid projects against a realistic scenario.
- Archive the decision record for smart grid projects so successors understand it.
- Measure progress on smart grid projects by value earned, not tasks ticked.
Smart grid projects: governance, gates and decision rights
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1What has to be agreed before work on smart grid projects starts
- Set escalation thresholds for smart grid projects that work out of hours.
- Prepare the summary of smart grid projects that senior management will read.
- Plan handover of smart grid projects to the team that will operate it.
- Register the risks to smart grid projects with owner, probability and impact.
Session 2Reviewing smart grid projects when nothing has gone wrong
- Write the scope statement for smart grid projects including explicit exclusions.
- Hold a lessons session on smart grid projects while memory is accurate.
- Set the change control process for smart grid projects and require cost and time impact.
- Estimate smart grid projects using two independent methods and reconcile the difference.
Smart grid projects: procurement, contracts and suppliers
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Pricing every change to smart grid projects
- Check that records of smart grid projects answer the questions likely to be asked.
- Define the trigger that would require smart grid projects to be redesigned.
- Define acceptance criteria for each deliverable of smart grid projects.
- Write down the assumptions underpinning the approach to smart grid projects.
Session 2The paperwork for smart grid projects that is actually needed
- Confirm that reporting on smart grid projects reaches the people who can act.
- Set the review interval for smart grid projects and who attends.
- Confirm that contractual obligations around smart grid projects are understood.
- Prepare the recovery plan for smart grid projects before it is needed.
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Silver Package
At least 3 people
USD1,250
- 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
Gold Package
At least 3 people
USD1,850
- 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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