Project Management

Managing Rural Electrification and Power Network Expansion Projects

Turn rural electrification projects from a stated policy into a practice your organisation can evidence.

  • 5training days
  • 4modules
  • 8sessions
  • 32topics
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Managing Rural Electrification and Power Network Expansion Projects
5days

About the programme

Course Overview

Stakeholders withdraw support for rural electrification projects quietly before they withdraw it formally. The estimate for the project and portfolio delivery discipline that nobody challenged is usually the one that fails. Participants gain a clear basis for measuring what this strand of project and portfolio delivery has actually achieved. The programme works equally well for those formalising rural electrification projects for the first time and those improving an existing approach. Across sectors, teams that rehearse the wider project and portfolio delivery agenda outperform teams that only plan it. Discussion is anchored to worked examples of this aspect of project and portfolio delivery rather than to abstract argument. The course covers rural electrification projects at the level of detail needed to act, and stops there. Buying a tool rarely fixes the practice within project and portfolio delivery; the underlying capability has to be built internally first. Participants leave with a first-ninety-days plan for the project and portfolio delivery discipline rather than a set of notes.

Expected Learning Outcomes

  • Build the reporting on rural electrification projects that gives early warning rather than reassurance.

  • Close rural electrification projects properly and capture lessons while they are still accurate.

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

  • Set acceptance criteria for rural electrification projects before work begins rather than after.

  • Integrate rural electrification projects into existing management routines rather than running it separately.

  • Track progress on rural electrification projects by earned value rather than by activity completed.

  • Plan resource and capacity for rural electrification projects against other commitments.

Who Should Attend

  • Anyone whose accountability for rural electrification projects exceeds their current formal training in it.

  • Contract and procurement staff supporting rural electrification projects.

  • Programme and portfolio managers overseeing rural electrification projects.

  • Project management office staff assuring rural electrification projects.

  • Procurement and contracting staff whose agreements set obligations around rural electrification projects.

  • Risk managers supporting rural electrification projects.

Course Modules

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01

Rural electrification projects: procurement, contracts and suppliers

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Decision gates on rural electrification projects that can actually stop it

  • Write the scope statement for rural electrification projects including explicit exclusions.
  • Archive the decision record for rural electrification projects so successors understand it.
  • Build the internal briefing that explains rural electrification projects to those affected.
  • Draft the minimum viable delivery plan for rural electrification projects.

Session 2Handing over rural electrification projects and proving the benefit

  • Record the rationale for each significant choice made about rural electrification projects.
  • Build reporting on rural electrification projects that surfaces problems while they are small.
  • Close out actions on rural electrification projects rather than leaving them open indefinitely.
  • Define the decision gates for rural electrification projects and what evidence each requires.
02

Rural electrification projects: schedule, critical path and realistic duration

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Estimating rural electrification projects without anchoring on the answer wanted

  • Identify where judgement in rural electrification projects is legitimate and where it is not.
  • Agree the indicators that will show whether rural electrification projects is improving.
  • Define how the benefit from rural electrification projects will be measured after closure.
  • Manage supplier performance on rural electrification projects against contract, not goodwill.

Session 2Escalation and decision rights in rural electrification projects

  • Hold a lessons session on rural electrification projects while memory is accurate.
  • Compare resource demand from rural electrification projects against other commitments.
  • Plan handover of rural electrification projects to the team that will operate it.
  • Arrange the handover of rural electrification projects so capability survives staff changes.
03

Rural electrification projects: risk identification, quantification and ownership

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Testing rural electrification projects before relying on it

  • Identify single points of dependency in rural electrification projects and reduce them.
  • Check that records of rural electrification projects answer the questions likely to be asked.
  • Set escalation thresholds for rural electrification projects that work out of hours.
  • Rank the weaknesses in rural electrification projects by consequence rather than by ease of fixing.

Session 2Managing suppliers delivering part of rural electrification projects

  • Map the handovers in rural electrification projects between functions and secure them.
  • Register the risks to rural electrification projects with owner, probability and impact.
  • Identify the critical path through rural electrification projects and the float elsewhere.
  • Map stakeholders of rural electrification projects by influence and current level of support.
04

Rural electrification projects: progress measurement and early warning

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Building lasting competence in rural electrification projects

  • Identify the data already collected that bears on rural electrification projects.
  • Review at each gate whether rural electrification projects should continue at all.
  • Review whether rural electrification projects is aligned with the objectives of the project.
  • Confirm that reporting on rural electrification projects reaches the people who can act.

Session 2Keeping stakeholders of rural electrification projects genuinely supportive

  • Set the change control process for rural electrification projects and require cost and time impact.
  • Estimate rural electrification projects using two independent methods and reconcile the difference.
  • Remove steps in rural electrification projects that add effort without adding assurance.
  • Define acceptance criteria for each deliverable of rural electrification projects.

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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