Project Management

Managing Precision Agriculture Projects Using Unmanned Aircraft

Learn to design, measure and defend your organisation's approach to precision agriculture projects.

  • 5training days
  • 4modules
  • 8sessions
  • 32topics
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Managing Precision Agriculture Projects Using Unmanned Aircraft
5days

About the programme

Course Overview

Scope on precision agriculture projects expands through small agreements made in isolation. Projects involving the project and portfolio delivery discipline are rarely late all at once; they are late a day at a time. Applied research in project and portfolio delivery consistently shows that early structure around this area of project and portfolio delivery reduces downstream rework. Improvement in precision agriculture projects stalls when it depends on one capable individual rather than a defined method. Participants gain a clear basis for measuring what the practice within project and portfolio delivery has actually achieved. Participants come from operational and oversight roles, and both perspectives on this aspect of project and portfolio delivery are used deliberately. The programme is built to be used, and every section of precision agriculture projects it covers ends in something applicable. The teaching approach is deliberately practical: participants build a delivery plan for the practice within project and portfolio delivery as they go. Participants leave with a plan for this area of project and portfolio delivery sized to what their organisation can realistically absorb.

Expected Learning Outcomes

  • Identify and quantify the risks to precision agriculture projects and assign owners.

  • Plan resource and capacity for precision agriculture projects against other commitments.

  • Set the minimum documentation for precision agriculture projects that is genuinely necessary, and stop there.

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

  • Design the governance and decision rights for precision agriculture projects.

  • Anticipate the objections that precision agriculture projects will attract internally and answer them in advance.

  • Define the scope of precision agriculture projects precisely, including what is explicitly excluded.

Who Should Attend

  • Compliance and governance staff whose remit includes precision agriculture projects.

  • Business partners who must understand precision agriculture projects well enough to challenge it.

  • Team members preparing to take on project responsibility for precision agriculture projects.

  • Project management office staff assuring precision agriculture projects.

  • Planners and schedulers building the timeline for precision agriculture projects.

  • Technical leads delivering work packages within precision agriculture projects.

Course Modules

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01

Precision agriculture projects: estimating cost and effort

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Recovering precision agriculture projects when it is behind

  • Define how the benefit from precision agriculture projects will be measured after closure.
  • Check that precision agriculture projects still works when volumes rise unexpectedly.
  • Confirm that contractual obligations around precision agriculture projects are understood.
  • Confirm that reporting on precision agriculture projects reaches the people who can act.

Session 2The risks to precision agriculture projects nobody wants to raise

  • Define the trigger that would require precision agriculture projects to be redesigned.
  • Set the review interval for precision agriculture projects and who attends.
  • Plan handover of precision agriculture projects to the team that will operate it.
  • Map stakeholders of precision agriculture projects by influence and current level of support.
02

Precision agriculture projects: schedule, critical path and realistic duration

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1What has to be agreed before work on precision agriculture projects starts

  • Define the decision gates for precision agriculture projects and what evidence each requires.
  • Plan the sequence in which improvements to precision agriculture projects will be introduced.
  • Prepare the recovery plan for precision agriculture projects before it is needed.
  • Archive the decision record for precision agriculture projects so successors understand it.

Session 2Managing suppliers delivering part of precision agriculture projects

  • Set the change control process for precision agriculture projects and require cost and time impact.
  • Manage supplier performance on precision agriculture projects against contract, not goodwill.
  • Review at each gate whether precision agriculture projects should continue at all.
  • Reduce the variation in how precision agriculture projects is carried out between teams.
03

Precision agriculture projects: risk identification, quantification and ownership

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1The paperwork for precision agriculture projects that is actually needed

  • Build reporting on precision agriculture projects that surfaces problems while they are small.
  • Anticipate the objections precision agriculture projects will raise and prepare the answers.
  • Estimate precision agriculture projects using two independent methods and reconcile the difference.
  • Write the scope statement for precision agriculture projects including explicit exclusions.

Session 2Writing the scope of precision agriculture projects including what is excluded

  • Build the competence framework that supports precision agriculture projects.
  • Name a single owner for each element of precision agriculture projects.
  • Measure progress on precision agriculture projects by value earned, not tasks ticked.
  • Hold a lessons session on precision agriculture projects while memory is accurate.
04

Precision agriculture projects: stakeholders, communication and support

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Handing over precision agriculture projects and proving the benefit

  • Record the rationale for each significant choice made about precision agriculture projects.
  • Rehearse the briefing on precision agriculture projects that would follow an incident.
  • Define acceptance criteria for each deliverable of precision agriculture projects.
  • Compare resource demand from precision agriculture projects against other commitments.

Session 2The hard cases in precision agriculture projects and how to reason about them

  • Set out the decisions in precision agriculture projects that require sign-off and by whom.
  • Arrange the handover of precision agriculture projects so capability survives staff changes.
  • Assign responsibility for keeping documentation of precision agriculture projects current.
  • Define acceptance criteria for precision agriculture projects in advance.

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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