Most recovery effort on smart lighting and efficiency projects is spent on problems that were visible early. A schedule for efficiency projects without a critical path is a wish list with dates. The teaching approach is deliberately practical: participants build a delivery plan for the project and portfolio delivery discipline as they go. Participants develop a defensible line of reasoning for the choices they make about smart lighting and efficiency projects. Participants leave with a method for the wider project and portfolio delivery agenda, not a set of opinions about it. Organisations that document efficiency projects properly resolve disputes about it far more quickly. It is pitched for practitioners with responsibility for smart lighting and efficiency projects, not for observers of it. Progress on efficiency projects is usually lost in the gap between approval and execution. The course ends by identifying what the participant will stop doing to make the practice within project and portfolio delivery sustainable.
Expected Learning Outcomes
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Review contracts and agreements for the obligations they create around smart lighting and efficiency projects.
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Manage contracts and suppliers delivering parts of efficiency projects.
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Plan handover and benefit realisation for smart lighting and efficiency projects.
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Compare the organisation's handling of efficiency projects with recognised practice, and close the material gaps.
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Recover smart lighting and efficiency projects when it is behind, without pretending it is not.
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Apply a repeatable review cycle to efficiency projects and act on what it produces.
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Build a schedule for smart lighting and efficiency projects with a genuine critical path and realistic durations.
Who Should Attend
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Contract and procurement staff supporting smart lighting and efficiency projects.
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Newly appointed managers taking on efficiency projects for the first time.
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Team members preparing to take on project responsibility for smart lighting and efficiency projects.
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Cost engineers and project controls staff on efficiency projects.
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Project managers responsible for smart lighting and efficiency projects.
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Team leaders and supervisors who put efficiency projects into practice day to day.
Course Modules
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01
Smart lighting and efficiency projects: change control and variation
2 sessions · 8 points
Session 1The hard cases in smart lighting and efficiency projects and how to reason about them
Compare resource demand from smart lighting and efficiency projects against other commitments.
Agree what will be standardised in efficiency projects and what will not.
Register the risks to smart lighting and efficiency projects with owner, probability and impact.
Archive the decision record for efficiency projects so successors understand it.
Session 2Managing suppliers delivering part of efficiency projects
Identify the data already collected that bears on smart lighting and efficiency projects.
Identify where judgement in efficiency projects is legitimate and where it is not.
Define acceptance criteria for each deliverable of smart lighting and efficiency projects.
Establish the boundary of efficiency projects and record what sits outside it.
02
Efficiency projects: handover, benefits and lessons
2 sessions · 8 points
Session 1Keeping stakeholders of efficiency projects genuinely supportive
Identify the critical path through smart lighting and efficiency projects and the float elsewhere.
Check that records of efficiency projects answer the questions likely to be asked.
Agree the escalation threshold for smart lighting and efficiency projects in advance.
Set the change control process for efficiency projects and require cost and time impact.
Session 2Measuring progress on efficiency projects honestly
Compare the cost of smart lighting and efficiency projects with the cost of its absence.
Record what was learned when efficiency projects did not go as planned.
Measure progress on smart lighting and efficiency projects by value earned, not tasks ticked.
Hold a lessons session on efficiency projects while memory is accurate.
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Efficiency projects: governance, gates and decision rights
2 sessions · 8 points
Session 1Writing the scope of efficiency projects including what is excluded
Write the scope statement for smart lighting and efficiency projects including explicit exclusions.
Build the competence framework that supports efficiency projects.
Define the decision gates for smart lighting and efficiency projects and what evidence each requires.
Confirm that reporting on efficiency projects reaches the people who can act.
Session 2Comparing smart lighting and efficiency projects with recognised practice
Prepare the recovery plan for smart lighting and efficiency projects before it is needed.
Write down the assumptions underpinning the approach to efficiency projects.
Draft the minimum viable delivery plan for smart lighting and efficiency projects.
Manage supplier performance on efficiency projects against contract, not goodwill.
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Efficiency projects: scope definition and exclusions
2 sessions · 8 points
Session 1Getting other functions to support efficiency projects
Set the review interval for smart lighting and efficiency projects and who attends.
Define how the benefit from efficiency projects will be measured after closure.
Reduce the variation in how smart lighting and efficiency projects is carried out between teams.
Anticipate the objections efficiency projects will raise and prepare the answers.
Session 2Closing efficiency projects and capturing what was learned
Build the internal briefing that explains smart lighting and efficiency projects to those affected.
Build reporting on efficiency projects that surfaces problems while they are small.
Assign responsibility for keeping documentation of smart lighting and efficiency projects current.
Map stakeholders of efficiency projects by influence and current level of support.
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Airport Transfers
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Supervision & Secretarial Services
Accredited Certificate of Participation
Complete Training Kit
Coffee Break
Closing Ceremony
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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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