Project Management

Managing Construction and Operation Projects for Automated Distribution Warehouses

Move automated warehouse projects from general awareness to a repeatable, reviewable practice.

  • 5training days
  • 4modules
  • 8sessions
  • 32topics
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Managing Construction and Operation Projects for Automated Distribution Warehouses
5days

About the programme

Course Overview

Stakeholders withdraw support for automated warehouse projects quietly before they withdraw it formally. A schedule for this part of project and portfolio delivery without a critical path is a wish list with dates. The most reliable predictor of sound this area of project and portfolio delivery is whether anyone reviews it when nothing has gone wrong. The course covers automated warehouse projects at the level of detail needed to act, and stops there. It is written for people who have to make the project and portfolio delivery discipline work with the resources they already have. What blocks progress on this aspect of project and portfolio delivery is usually unclear ownership rather than unclear intent. The method assumes participants will be challenged on their handling of automated warehouse projects and prepares them for it. The course leaves participants able to diagnose weaknesses in the project and portfolio delivery capability before they become incidents. The final session converts the week's work on this area of project and portfolio delivery into commitments with owners and dates.

Expected Learning Outcomes

  • Establish quality acceptance criteria for the deliverables of automated warehouse projects.

  • Plan the handover of automated warehouse projects so that capability is not lost when key staff move on.

  • Estimate what automated warehouse projects costs to run properly, and what is lost when it is not.

  • Close automated warehouse projects properly and capture lessons while they are still accurate.

  • Identify and quantify the risks to automated warehouse projects and assign owners.

  • Apply a repeatable review cycle to automated warehouse projects and act on what it produces.

  • Manage dependencies between automated warehouse projects and other initiatives.

Who Should Attend

  • Project sponsors accountable for the outcome of automated warehouse projects.

  • Business change managers handling adoption of automated warehouse projects.

  • Project management office staff assuring automated warehouse projects.

  • Staff seconded into improvement work on automated warehouse projects.

  • Experienced practitioners formalising an approach to automated warehouse projects that has grown up informally.

  • Project managers responsible for automated warehouse projects.

Course Modules

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01

Automated warehouse projects: risk identification, quantification and ownership

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Pricing every change to automated warehouse projects

  • Set escalation thresholds for automated warehouse projects that work out of hours.
  • Establish who is informed, consulted and accountable in automated warehouse projects.
  • Collect evidence on the present handling of automated warehouse projects before proposing changes.
  • Rehearse the briefing on automated warehouse projects that would follow an incident.

Session 2Building a schedule for automated warehouse projects with a real critical path

  • Identify the critical path through automated warehouse projects and the float elsewhere.
  • Measure progress on automated warehouse projects by value earned, not tasks ticked.
  • Confirm that reporting on automated warehouse projects reaches the people who can act.
  • Define acceptance criteria for automated warehouse projects in advance.
02

Automated warehouse projects: scope definition and exclusions

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1The paperwork for automated warehouse projects that is actually needed

  • Build the work breakdown for automated warehouse projects to a level that can be estimated.
  • Check that automated warehouse projects still works when volumes rise unexpectedly.
  • Hold a lessons session on automated warehouse projects while memory is accurate.
  • Write the scope statement for automated warehouse projects including explicit exclusions.

Session 2Estimating automated warehouse projects without anchoring on the answer wanted

  • Review at each gate whether automated warehouse projects should continue at all.
  • Rank the weaknesses in automated warehouse projects by consequence rather than by ease of fixing.
  • Decide what will be stopped to create capacity for automated warehouse projects.
  • Plan handover of automated warehouse projects to the team that will operate it.
03

Automated warehouse projects: procurement, contracts and suppliers

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Moving automated warehouse projects from approval to execution

  • Set the review interval for automated warehouse projects and who attends.
  • Establish what evidence demonstrates automated warehouse projects is under control.
  • Compare resource demand from automated warehouse projects against other commitments.
  • Register the risks to automated warehouse projects with owner, probability and impact.

Session 2Closing automated warehouse projects and capturing what was learned

  • Estimate automated warehouse projects using two independent methods and reconcile the difference.
  • Prepare the response for the most likely failure in automated warehouse projects.
  • Close out actions on automated warehouse projects rather than leaving them open indefinitely.
  • Write down the assumptions underpinning the approach to automated warehouse projects.
04

Automated warehouse projects: handover, benefits and lessons

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Writing the scope of automated warehouse projects including what is excluded

  • Map stakeholders of automated warehouse projects by influence and current level of support.
  • Archive the decision record for automated warehouse projects so successors understand it.
  • Prepare the recovery plan for automated warehouse projects before it is needed.
  • Check that records of automated warehouse projects answer the questions likely to be asked.

Session 2Where automated warehouse projects typically breaks, and why

  • Define acceptance criteria for each deliverable of automated warehouse projects.
  • Set the change control process for automated warehouse projects and require cost and time impact.
  • Define the decision gates for automated warehouse projects and what evidence each requires.
  • Verify six months later that changes to automated warehouse projects have held.

Choose the package that suits you

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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