Projects involving road, tunnel and bridge projects are rarely late all at once; they are late a day at a time. Stakeholders withdraw support for bridge projects quietly before they withdraw it formally. It establishes a shared vocabulary for this area of project and portfolio delivery so that teams can disagree productively about it. The version of road, tunnel and bridge projects described in the manual and the version practised on the floor tend to diverge over time. Work is grounded in real cases drawn from the project and portfolio delivery capability, which each participant adapts to conditions in their own organisation. The programme builds the judgement to know which parts of bridge projects to standardise and which to leave flexible. It is pitched for practitioners with responsibility for road, tunnel and bridge projects, not for observers of it. Benchmarking exercises repeatedly place bridge projects among the areas with the widest performance spread. The programme closes with an action plan for this aspect of project and portfolio delivery that each participant writes for their own organisation.
Expected Learning Outcomes
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Build the internal capability for road, tunnel and bridge projects rather than depending on external support indefinitely.
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Build the reporting on bridge projects that gives early warning rather than reassurance.
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Assess whether road, tunnel and bridge projects should continue at each decision gate.
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Plan resource and capacity for bridge projects against other commitments.
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Plan handover and benefit realisation for road, tunnel and bridge projects.
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Set acceptance criteria for bridge projects before work begins rather than after.
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Adapt recognised practice on road, tunnel and bridge projects to local constraints without hollowing it out.
Who Should Attend
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Technical leads delivering work packages within road, tunnel and bridge projects.
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Planners and schedulers building the timeline for bridge projects.
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Training and development staff building internal capability in road, tunnel and bridge projects.
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Business change managers handling adoption of bridge projects.
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Contract and procurement staff supporting road, tunnel and bridge projects.
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Procurement and contracting staff whose agreements set obligations around bridge projects.
Course Modules
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01
Road, tunnel and bridge projects: stakeholders, communication and support
2 sessions · 8 points
Session 1Making road, tunnel and bridge projects work when resources are constrained
Build reporting on road, tunnel and bridge projects that surfaces problems while they are small.
Define the trigger that would require bridge projects to be redesigned.
Prepare the response for the most likely failure in road, tunnel and bridge projects.
Set the change control process for bridge projects and require cost and time impact.
Session 2The risks to bridge projects nobody wants to raise
Define how the benefit from road, tunnel and bridge projects will be measured after closure.
Define acceptance criteria for bridge projects in advance.
Review at each gate whether road, tunnel and bridge projects should continue at all.
Write down the assumptions underpinning the approach to bridge projects.
02
Bridge projects: governance, gates and decision rights
2 sessions · 8 points
Session 1Closing bridge projects and capturing what was learned
Identify the critical path through road, tunnel and bridge projects and the float elsewhere.
Build the competence framework that supports bridge projects.
Agree what will be standardised in road, tunnel and bridge projects and what will not.
Manage supplier performance on bridge projects against contract, not goodwill.
Session 2Pricing every change to bridge projects
Hold a lessons session on road, tunnel and bridge projects while memory is accurate.
Agree the smallest change to bridge projects that would be visibly useful.
Map the handovers in road, tunnel and bridge projects between functions and secure them.
Agree the escalation threshold for bridge projects in advance.
03
Bridge projects: scope definition and exclusions
2 sessions · 8 points
Session 1The paperwork for bridge projects that is actually needed
Establish the boundary of road, tunnel and bridge projects and record what sits outside it.
Plan handover of bridge projects to the team that will operate it.
Define acceptance criteria for each deliverable of road, tunnel and bridge projects.
Identify the data already collected that bears on bridge projects.
Session 2Decision gates on road, tunnel and bridge projects that can actually stop it
Assign responsibility for keeping documentation of road, tunnel and bridge projects current.
Close out actions on bridge projects rather than leaving them open indefinitely.
Write the scope statement for road, tunnel and bridge projects including explicit exclusions.
Prepare the recovery plan for bridge projects before it is needed.
04
Bridge projects: procurement, contracts and suppliers
2 sessions · 8 points
Session 1Building the method for bridge projects step by step
Measure progress on road, tunnel and bridge projects by value earned, not tasks ticked.
Distinguish symptoms from causes when bridge projects underperforms.
Test the procedure for road, tunnel and bridge projects against a realistic scenario.
Define the decision gates for bridge projects and what evidence each requires.
Session 2Keeping stakeholders of bridge projects genuinely supportive
Set the review interval for road, tunnel and bridge projects and who attends.
Register the risks to bridge projects with owner, probability and impact.
Rank the weaknesses in road, tunnel and bridge projects by consequence rather than by ease of fixing.
Compare resource demand from bridge projects against other commitments.
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Supervision & Secretarial Services
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Complete Training Kit
Coffee Break
Closing Ceremony
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