Project Management

Managing Transformation Projects Towards Smart Factories

A working programme in smart factory projects for managers who have to deliver with existing resources.

  • 5training days
  • 4modules
  • 8sessions
  • 32topics
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Managing Transformation Projects Towards Smart Factories
5days

About the programme

Course Overview

Most recovery effort on smart factory projects is spent on problems that were visible early. Stakeholders withdraw support for the project and portfolio delivery discipline quietly before they withdraw it formally. Cases are chosen to expose the trade-offs in the wider project and portfolio delivery agenda rather than to illustrate ideal conditions. Post-incident reviews keep identifying weaknesses in smart factory projects that were visible long before the incident. Participants gain a clear basis for measuring what the project and portfolio delivery capability has actually achieved. It is designed for mixed groups, so that this strand of project and portfolio delivery is examined from more than one functional angle. The programme converts smart factory projects from an area of general awareness into a set of repeatable practices. Teams frequently over-invest in documenting the project and portfolio delivery capability and under-invest in testing it. It closes by agreeing the smallest change to the wider project and portfolio delivery agenda that would make a visible difference.

Expected Learning Outcomes

  • Manage stakeholders of smart factory projects according to influence and interest.

  • Apply a repeatable review cycle to smart factory projects and act on what it produces.

  • Verify that improvements to smart factory projects have held six months after they were introduced.

  • Establish quality acceptance criteria for the deliverables of smart factory projects.

  • Control change to smart factory projects so every variation has a price and a decision.

  • Plan resource and capacity for smart factory projects against other commitments.

  • Review contracts and agreements for the obligations they create around smart factory projects.

Who Should Attend

  • Project management office staff assuring smart factory projects.

  • Cost engineers and project controls staff on smart factory projects.

  • Officers preparing reports on smart factory projects for boards or oversight committees.

  • Business change managers handling adoption of smart factory projects.

  • Public sector officials applying smart factory projects within a regulated framework.

  • Team members preparing to take on project responsibility for smart factory projects.

Course Modules

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01

Smart factory projects: handover, benefits and lessons

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Closing out smart factory projects and capturing what was learned

  • Define acceptance criteria for smart factory projects in advance.
  • Write the scope statement for smart factory projects including explicit exclusions.
  • Define the decision gates for smart factory projects and what evidence each requires.
  • Name a single owner for each element of smart factory projects.

Session 2Measuring progress on smart factory projects honestly

  • Compare resource demand from smart factory projects against other commitments.
  • Benchmark the organisation's smart factory projects against comparable operations.
  • Remove steps in smart factory projects that add effort without adding assurance.
  • Record the rationale for each significant choice made about smart factory projects.
02

Smart factory projects: stakeholders, communication and support

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Building a schedule for smart factory projects with a real critical path

  • Agree the escalation threshold for smart factory projects in advance.
  • Plan the sequence in which improvements to smart factory projects will be introduced.
  • Define the trigger that would require smart factory projects to be redesigned.
  • Agree the indicators that will show whether smart factory projects is improving.

Session 2Reviewing smart factory projects when nothing has gone wrong

  • Review whether smart factory projects is aligned with the objectives of the project.
  • Define acceptance criteria for each deliverable of smart factory projects.
  • Assign responsibility for keeping documentation of smart factory projects current.
  • Review at each gate whether smart factory projects should continue at all.
03

Smart factory projects: progress measurement and early warning

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Estimating smart factory projects without anchoring on the answer wanted

  • Define how the benefit from smart factory projects will be measured after closure.
  • Check that records of smart factory projects answer the questions likely to be asked.
  • Archive the decision record for smart factory projects so successors understand it.
  • Prepare the recovery plan for smart factory projects before it is needed.

Session 2Moving smart factory projects from approval to execution

  • Set the change control process for smart factory projects and require cost and time impact.
  • Plan handover of smart factory projects to the team that will operate it.
  • Identify the critical path through smart factory projects and the float elsewhere.
  • Build the internal briefing that explains smart factory projects to those affected.
04

Smart factory projects: procurement, contracts and suppliers

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Keeping stakeholders of smart factory projects genuinely supportive

  • Check that smart factory projects still works when volumes rise unexpectedly.
  • Estimate smart factory projects using two independent methods and reconcile the difference.
  • Confirm that reporting on smart factory projects reaches the people who can act.
  • Hold a lessons session on smart factory projects while memory is accurate.

Session 2Writing the scope of smart factory projects including what is excluded

  • Verify six months later that changes to smart factory projects have held.
  • Register the risks to smart factory projects with owner, probability and impact.
  • Establish what evidence demonstrates smart factory projects is under control.
  • Map stakeholders of smart factory projects by influence and current level of support.

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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