Project Management

Managing Petrochemical Plant Expansion Projects and Critical Schedule Control

Build a working method for petrochemical expansion projects that stands up to scrutiny and survives daily pressure.

  • 5training days
  • 4modules
  • 8sessions
  • 32topics
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Managing Petrochemical Plant Expansion Projects and Critical Schedule Control
5days

About the programme

Course Overview

Projects involving petrochemical expansion projects are rarely late all at once; they are late a day at a time. Stakeholders withdraw support for this part of project and portfolio delivery quietly before they withdraw it formally. The content is relevant to those who own the project and portfolio delivery discipline and to those who are held accountable for its results. Participants develop a defensible line of reasoning for the choices they make about petrochemical expansion projects. The most reliable predictor of sound this area of project and portfolio delivery is whether anyone reviews it when nothing has gone wrong. The teaching approach is deliberately practical: participants build a delivery plan for the project and portfolio delivery discipline as they go. What blocks progress on petrochemical expansion projects is usually unclear ownership rather than unclear intent. The course covers this part of project and portfolio delivery at the level of detail needed to act, and stops there. The programme closes with an action plan for the project and portfolio delivery discipline that each participant writes for their own organisation.

Expected Learning Outcomes

  • Build a schedule for petrochemical expansion projects with a genuine critical path and realistic durations.

  • Estimate cost and effort for petrochemical expansion projects using more than one method.

  • Assign clear ownership for each element of petrochemical expansion projects across the functions involved.

  • Verify that improvements to petrochemical expansion projects have held six months after they were introduced.

  • Track progress on petrochemical expansion projects by earned value rather than by activity completed.

  • Manage stakeholders of petrochemical expansion projects according to influence and interest.

  • Sequence improvements to petrochemical expansion projects so that each step makes the next one easier.

Who Should Attend

  • Project management office staff assuring petrochemical expansion projects.

  • Planners and schedulers building the timeline for petrochemical expansion projects.

  • Project managers responsible for petrochemical expansion projects.

  • Business partners who must understand petrochemical expansion projects well enough to challenge it.

  • Experienced practitioners formalising an approach to petrochemical expansion projects that has grown up informally.

  • Project sponsors accountable for the outcome of petrochemical expansion projects.

Course Modules

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01

Petrochemical expansion projects: progress measurement and early warning

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Managing suppliers delivering part of petrochemical expansion projects

  • Verify six months later that changes to petrochemical expansion projects have held.
  • Define how the benefit from petrochemical expansion projects will be measured after closure.
  • Test the procedure for petrochemical expansion projects against a realistic scenario.
  • Collect evidence on the present handling of petrochemical expansion projects before proposing changes.

Session 2Measuring progress on petrochemical expansion projects honestly

  • Review at each gate whether petrochemical expansion projects should continue at all.
  • Identify the data already collected that bears on petrochemical expansion projects.
  • Register the risks to petrochemical expansion projects with owner, probability and impact.
  • Record what was learned when petrochemical expansion projects did not go as planned.
02

Petrochemical expansion projects: stakeholders, communication and support

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Reviewing petrochemical expansion projects when nothing has gone wrong

  • Prepare the recovery plan for petrochemical expansion projects before it is needed.
  • Archive the decision record for petrochemical expansion projects so successors understand it.
  • Name a single owner for each element of petrochemical expansion projects.
  • Confirm that contractual obligations around petrochemical expansion projects are understood.

Session 2Handing over petrochemical expansion projects and proving the benefit

  • Set escalation thresholds for petrochemical expansion projects that work out of hours.
  • Define acceptance criteria for each deliverable of petrochemical expansion projects.
  • Measure progress on petrochemical expansion projects by value earned, not tasks ticked.
  • Agree the smallest change to petrochemical expansion projects that would be visibly useful.
03

Petrochemical expansion projects: governance, gates and decision rights

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Who answers for petrochemical expansion projects, and to whom

  • Manage supplier performance on petrochemical expansion projects against contract, not goodwill.
  • Estimate petrochemical expansion projects using two independent methods and reconcile the difference.
  • Establish who is informed, consulted and accountable in petrochemical expansion projects.
  • Agree the escalation threshold for petrochemical expansion projects in advance.

Session 2Comparing petrochemical expansion projects with recognised practice

  • Establish the boundary of petrochemical expansion projects and record what sits outside it.
  • Distinguish symptoms from causes when petrochemical expansion projects underperforms.
  • Build reporting on petrochemical expansion projects that surfaces problems while they are small.
  • Plan the sequence in which improvements to petrochemical expansion projects will be introduced.
04

Petrochemical expansion projects: handover, benefits and lessons

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1The risks to petrochemical expansion projects nobody wants to raise

  • Agree the indicators that will show whether petrochemical expansion projects is improving.
  • Record the rationale for each significant choice made about petrochemical expansion projects.
  • Identify the critical path through petrochemical expansion projects and the float elsewhere.
  • Define the decision gates for petrochemical expansion projects and what evidence each requires.

Session 2Recovering petrochemical expansion projects when it is behind

  • Map stakeholders of petrochemical expansion projects by influence and current level of support.
  • Plan handover of petrochemical expansion projects to the team that will operate it.
  • Write the scope statement for petrochemical expansion projects including explicit exclusions.
  • Confirm that those complying with petrochemical expansion projects understand why it exists.

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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