Most recovery effort on seaport and terminal projects is spent on problems that were visible early. Stakeholders withdraw support for terminal projects quietly before they withdraw it formally. The content is relevant to those who own this strand of project and portfolio delivery and to those who are held accountable for its results. Participants finish able to explain seaport and terminal projects to a non-specialist audience without losing precision. The professional literature on the project and portfolio delivery capability converges on a small set of controls that reliably work. The programme uses small-group work so that each participant's treatment of terminal projects is examined, not just described. The programme takes participants through seaport and terminal projects end to end, from framing the problem to closing it out. The difficulty is not agreeing that terminal projects matters — it is deciding what to stop doing to make room for it. Participants leave with a plan for this area of project and portfolio delivery sized to what their organisation can realistically absorb.
Expected Learning Outcomes
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Plan resource and capacity for seaport and terminal projects against other commitments.
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Identify and quantify the risks to terminal projects and assign owners.
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Set a realistic target state for seaport and terminal projects and a defensible route to it.
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Control change to terminal projects so every variation has a price and a decision.
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Manage stakeholders of seaport and terminal projects according to influence and interest.
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Communicate the purpose of terminal projects to those who have to comply with it.
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Anticipate the objections that seaport and terminal projects will attract internally and answer them in advance.
Who Should Attend
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Technical leads delivering work packages within seaport and terminal projects.
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Cost engineers and project controls staff on terminal projects.
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Business partners who must understand seaport and terminal projects well enough to challenge it.
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Members of committees that take decisions affecting terminal projects.
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Team members preparing to take on project responsibility for seaport and terminal projects.
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Business change managers handling adoption of terminal projects.
Course Modules
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01
Seaport and terminal projects: stakeholders, communication and support
2 sessions · 8 points
Session 1The paperwork for seaport and terminal projects that is actually needed
Plan the sequence in which improvements to seaport and terminal projects will be introduced.
Name a single owner for each element of terminal projects.
Assign responsibility for keeping documentation of seaport and terminal projects current.
Establish who is informed, consulted and accountable in terminal projects.
Session 2Recovering terminal projects when it is behind
Set out the decisions in seaport and terminal projects that require sign-off and by whom.
Estimate the resource terminal projects requires to run as designed.
Define acceptance criteria for each deliverable of seaport and terminal projects.
Write the scope statement for terminal projects including explicit exclusions.
02
Terminal projects: handover, benefits and lessons
2 sessions · 8 points
Session 1Building a schedule for terminal projects with a real critical path
Agree the escalation threshold for seaport and terminal projects in advance.
Record the rationale for each significant choice made about terminal projects.
Check that records of seaport and terminal projects answer the questions likely to be asked.
Build reporting on terminal projects that surfaces problems while they are small.
Session 2Escalation and decision rights in terminal projects
Plan handover of seaport and terminal projects to the team that will operate it.
Prepare the recovery plan for terminal projects before it is needed.
Define the decision gates for seaport and terminal projects and what evidence each requires.
Record what was learned when terminal projects did not go as planned.
03
Terminal projects: schedule, critical path and realistic duration
2 sessions · 8 points
Session 1Writing the scope of terminal projects including what is excluded
Identify the critical path through seaport and terminal projects and the float elsewhere.
Build the internal briefing that explains terminal projects to those affected.
Estimate seaport and terminal projects using two independent methods and reconcile the difference.
Manage supplier performance on terminal projects against contract, not goodwill.
Session 2Measuring progress on seaport and terminal projects honestly
Decide what will be stopped to create capacity for seaport and terminal projects.
Archive the decision record for terminal projects so successors understand it.
Test the procedure for seaport and terminal projects against a realistic scenario.
Review at each gate whether terminal projects should continue at all.
04
Terminal projects: risk identification, quantification and ownership
2 sessions · 8 points
Session 1Closing terminal projects and capturing what was learned
Reduce the variation in how seaport and terminal projects is carried out between teams.
Arrange the handover of terminal projects so capability survives staff changes.
Measure progress on seaport and terminal projects by value earned, not tasks ticked.
Set the change control process for terminal projects and require cost and time impact.
Session 2Getting other functions to support terminal projects
Compare resource demand from seaport and terminal projects against other commitments.
Confirm that those complying with terminal projects understand why it exists.
Register the risks to seaport and terminal projects with owner, probability and impact.
Agree the smallest change to terminal projects that would be visibly useful.
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Supervision & Secretarial Services
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Complete Training Kit
Coffee Break
Closing Ceremony
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