Choose the delivery approach for project delivery excellence — predictive, adaptive or hybrid — deliberately.
Operational Excellence in Project Delivery and Cost Reduction
Learn to design, measure and defend your organisation's approach to project delivery excellence.
📍 Istanbul🗓️ 5 training days📚 4 modules🎓 Accredited certificate
5intensive training days
4scientific modules
8training sessions
32detailed points
Course Overview
Stakeholders withdraw support for project delivery excellence quietly before they withdraw it formally. A schedule for this strand of project and portfolio delivery without a critical path is a wish list with dates. Participants gain a clear basis for measuring what this aspect of project and portfolio delivery has actually achieved. The difficulty is not agreeing that project delivery excellence matters — it is deciding what to stop doing to make room for it. The level assumes working familiarity with the project but no prior formal training in the practice within project and portfolio delivery. Field experience suggests that the barrier to better the wider project and portfolio delivery agenda is rarely technical. This programme builds project delivery excellence from first principles, without padding and without omitting what matters. Sessions alternate between guided analysis of this strand of project and portfolio delivery and supervised application. The final module sets out how progress on the project and portfolio delivery capability will be evidenced six months later.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Anticipate the objections that project delivery excellence will attract internally and answer them in advance.
Document decisions about project delivery excellence in a form that remains useful after the people change.
Plan handover and benefit realisation for project delivery excellence.
Build the reporting on project delivery excellence that gives early warning rather than reassurance.
Estimate cost and effort for project delivery excellence using more than one method.
Integrate project delivery excellence into existing management routines rather than running it separately.
Who Should Attend
Team leaders and supervisors who put project delivery excellence into practice day to day.
Team members preparing to take on project responsibility for project delivery excellence.
Newly appointed managers taking on project delivery excellence for the first time.
Project management office staff assuring project delivery excellence.
Programme and portfolio managers overseeing project delivery excellence.
Technical leads delivering work packages within project delivery excellence.
Course Modules
Project delivery excellence: scope definition and exclusions
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Moving project delivery excellence from approval to execution
- Check that records of project delivery excellence answer the questions likely to be asked.
- Review at each gate whether project delivery excellence should continue at all.
- Verify six months later that changes to project delivery excellence have held.
- Establish what evidence demonstrates project delivery excellence is under control.
Session 2Pricing every change to project delivery excellence
- Set the change control process for project delivery excellence and require cost and time impact.
- Confirm that contractual obligations around project delivery excellence are understood.
- Record what was learned when project delivery excellence did not go as planned.
- Estimate project delivery excellence using two independent methods and reconcile the difference.
Project delivery excellence: risk identification, quantification and ownership
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Reading the current state of project delivery excellence honestly
- Benchmark the organisation's project delivery excellence against comparable operations.
- Hold a lessons session on project delivery excellence while memory is accurate.
- Map stakeholders of project delivery excellence by influence and current level of support.
- Define how the benefit from project delivery excellence will be measured after closure.
Session 2Testing project delivery excellence before relying on it
- Set escalation thresholds for project delivery excellence that work out of hours.
- Manage supplier performance on project delivery excellence against contract, not goodwill.
- Measure progress on project delivery excellence by value earned, not tasks ticked.
- Collect evidence on the present handling of project delivery excellence before proposing changes.
Project delivery excellence: schedule, critical path and realistic duration
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Keeping stakeholders of project delivery excellence genuinely supportive
- Build reporting on project delivery excellence that surfaces problems while they are small.
- Check that project delivery excellence still works when volumes rise unexpectedly.
- Agree the escalation threshold for project delivery excellence in advance.
- Register the risks to project delivery excellence with owner, probability and impact.
Session 2Measuring progress on project delivery excellence honestly
- Agree what will be standardised in project delivery excellence and what will not.
- Prepare the recovery plan for project delivery excellence before it is needed.
- Write the scope statement for project delivery excellence including explicit exclusions.
- Test the procedure for project delivery excellence against a realistic scenario.
Project delivery excellence: handover, benefits and lessons
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Decision gates on project delivery excellence that can actually stop it
- Define acceptance criteria for each deliverable of project delivery excellence.
- Write down the assumptions underpinning the approach to project delivery excellence.
- Rehearse the briefing on project delivery excellence that would follow an incident.
- Close out actions on project delivery excellence rather than leaving them open indefinitely.
Session 2Managing suppliers delivering part of project delivery excellence
- Plan handover of project delivery excellence to the team that will operate it.
- Agree the indicators that will show whether project delivery excellence is improving.
- Define the decision gates for project delivery excellence and what evidence each requires.
- Compare the cost of project delivery excellence with the cost of its absence.
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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