Project Management

Managing Disclosure and Reporting Projects Under Sustainability Standards

A working programme in sustainability reporting projects for managers who have to deliver with existing resources.

  • 5training days
  • 4modules
  • 8sessions
  • 32topics
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Managing Disclosure and Reporting Projects Under Sustainability Standards
5days

About the programme

Course Overview

Most recovery effort on sustainability reporting projects is spent on problems that were visible early. The estimate for this part of project and portfolio delivery that nobody challenged is usually the one that fails. The material serves both public bodies and commercial organisations dealing with the practice within project and portfolio delivery. Cases are chosen to expose the trade-offs in sustainability reporting projects rather than to illustrate ideal conditions. The programme takes participants through this part of project and portfolio delivery end to end, from framing the problem to closing it out. Participants gain a clear basis for measuring what the practice within project and portfolio delivery has actually achieved. Applied research in project and portfolio delivery consistently shows that early structure around sustainability reporting projects reduces downstream rework. The version of this strand of project and portfolio delivery described in the manual and the version practised on the floor tend to diverge over time. 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

  • Assess the current state of sustainability reporting projects against a structured set of criteria rather than impressions.

  • Estimate cost and effort for sustainability reporting projects using more than one method.

  • Define the scope of sustainability reporting projects precisely, including what is explicitly excluded.

  • Set acceptance criteria for sustainability reporting projects before work begins rather than after.

  • Track progress on sustainability reporting projects by earned value rather than by activity completed.

  • Control change to sustainability reporting projects so every variation has a price and a decision.

  • Translate policy on sustainability reporting projects into procedures that hold up under day-to-day pressure.

Who Should Attend

  • Planning staff whose forecasts and budgets are affected by sustainability reporting projects.

  • Procurement and contracting staff whose agreements set obligations around sustainability reporting projects.

  • Risk managers supporting sustainability reporting projects.

  • Technical leads delivering work packages within sustainability reporting projects.

  • Planners and schedulers building the timeline for sustainability reporting projects.

  • Cost engineers and project controls staff on sustainability reporting projects.

Course Modules

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01

Sustainability reporting projects: procurement, contracts and suppliers

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Escalation and decision rights in sustainability reporting projects

  • Write down the assumptions underpinning the approach to sustainability reporting projects.
  • Define how the benefit from sustainability reporting projects will be measured after closure.
  • Plan handover of sustainability reporting projects to the team that will operate it.
  • Prepare the summary of sustainability reporting projects that senior management will read.

Session 2What has to be agreed before work on sustainability reporting projects starts

  • Define acceptance criteria for each deliverable of sustainability reporting projects.
  • Reduce the variation in how sustainability reporting projects is carried out between teams.
  • Identify single points of dependency in sustainability reporting projects and reduce them.
  • Set the review interval for sustainability reporting projects and who attends.
02

Sustainability reporting projects: stakeholders, communication and support

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Closing sustainability reporting projects and capturing what was learned

  • Rank the weaknesses in sustainability reporting projects by consequence rather than by ease of fixing.
  • Set the change control process for sustainability reporting projects and require cost and time impact.
  • Distinguish symptoms from causes when sustainability reporting projects underperforms.
  • Write the scope statement for sustainability reporting projects including explicit exclusions.

Session 2What to measure in sustainability reporting projects and what to ignore

  • Register the risks to sustainability reporting projects with owner, probability and impact.
  • Define the decision gates for sustainability reporting projects and what evidence each requires.
  • Set escalation thresholds for sustainability reporting projects that work out of hours.
  • Build reporting on sustainability reporting projects that surfaces problems while they are small.
03

Sustainability reporting projects: scope definition and exclusions

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Pricing every change to sustainability reporting projects

  • Agree the smallest change to sustainability reporting projects that would be visibly useful.
  • Archive the decision record for sustainability reporting projects so successors understand it.
  • Map stakeholders of sustainability reporting projects by influence and current level of support.
  • Compare resource demand from sustainability reporting projects against other commitments.

Session 2Writing the scope of sustainability reporting projects including what is excluded

  • Measure progress on sustainability reporting projects by value earned, not tasks ticked.
  • Hold a lessons session on sustainability reporting projects while memory is accurate.
  • Agree the escalation threshold for sustainability reporting projects in advance.
  • Establish who is informed, consulted and accountable in sustainability reporting projects.
04

Sustainability reporting projects: estimating cost and effort

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Measuring progress on sustainability reporting projects honestly

  • Arrange the handover of sustainability reporting projects so capability survives staff changes.
  • Agree what will be standardised in sustainability reporting projects and what will not.
  • Close out actions on sustainability reporting projects rather than leaving them open indefinitely.
  • Agree the indicators that will show whether sustainability reporting projects is improving.

Session 2Estimating sustainability reporting projects without anchoring on the answer wanted

  • Rehearse the briefing on sustainability reporting projects that would follow an incident.
  • Decide what will be stopped to create capacity for sustainability reporting projects.
  • Identify the critical path through sustainability reporting projects and the float elsewhere.
  • Review at each gate whether sustainability reporting projects should continue at all.

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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