Design the governance and decision rights for high-speed rail and transit projects.
Planning and Delivering High-Speed Rail and Mass Transit Projects
A practical programme in high-speed rail and transit projects for professionals who are accountable for results, not just awareness.
📍 Cairo🗓️ 5 training days📚 4 modules🎓 Accredited certificate
5intensive training days
4scientific modules
8training sessions
32detailed points
Course Overview
The estimate for high-speed rail and transit projects that nobody challenged is usually the one that fails. Most recovery effort on transit projects is spent on problems that were visible early. The programme is built to be used, and every section of this part of project and portfolio delivery it covers ends in something applicable. Field experience suggests that the barrier to better high-speed rail and transit projects is rarely technical. Participants test their assumptions about this strand of project and portfolio delivery against scenarios designed to break weak ones. Moving transit projects from written policy into daily practice is not achieved by a single decision. It is designed for mixed groups, so that high-speed rail and transit projects is examined from more than one functional angle. They gain the ability to sequence improvements to transit projects in an order their organisation can absorb. The programme ends where implementation begins, with the project and portfolio delivery capability broken into steps someone can start on Monday.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Manage stakeholders of transit projects according to influence and interest.
Define the scope and boundaries of high-speed rail and transit projects so that responsibility for it is unambiguous.
Estimate cost and effort for transit projects using more than one method.
Choose the delivery approach for high-speed rail and transit projects — predictive, adaptive or hybrid — deliberately.
Compare the organisation's handling of transit projects with recognised practice, and close the material gaps.
Design a training and briefing approach that sustains competence in high-speed rail and transit projects.
Who Should Attend
Project managers responsible for high-speed rail and transit projects.
Risk managers supporting transit projects.
Training and development staff building internal capability in high-speed rail and transit projects.
Programme and portfolio managers overseeing transit projects.
Planners and schedulers building the timeline for high-speed rail and transit projects.
Project and programme managers whose delivery depends on transit projects.
Course Modules
High-speed rail and transit projects: progress measurement and early warning
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Building a schedule for high-speed rail and transit projects with a real critical path
- Register the risks to high-speed rail and transit projects with owner, probability and impact.
- Hold a lessons session on transit projects while memory is accurate.
- Define acceptance criteria for high-speed rail and transit projects in advance.
- Set escalation thresholds for transit projects that work out of hours.
Session 2Decision gates on transit projects that can actually stop it
- Compare resource demand from high-speed rail and transit projects against other commitments.
- Agree the escalation threshold for transit projects in advance.
- Map the handovers in high-speed rail and transit projects between functions and secure them.
- Test the procedure for transit projects against a realistic scenario.
Transit projects: estimating cost and effort
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Estimating transit projects without anchoring on the answer wanted
- Agree what will be standardised in high-speed rail and transit projects and what will not.
- Prepare the recovery plan for transit projects before it is needed.
- Define acceptance criteria for each deliverable of high-speed rail and transit projects.
- Draft the minimum viable delivery plan for transit projects.
Session 2Pricing every change to transit projects
- Archive the decision record for high-speed rail and transit projects so successors understand it.
- Distinguish symptoms from causes when transit projects underperforms.
- Estimate high-speed rail and transit projects using two independent methods and reconcile the difference.
- Review at each gate whether transit projects should continue at all.
Transit projects: stakeholders, communication and support
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Building the method for transit projects step by step
- Arrange the handover of high-speed rail and transit projects so capability survives staff changes.
- Build reporting on transit projects that surfaces problems while they are small.
- Identify the critical path through high-speed rail and transit projects and the float elsewhere.
- Plan handover of transit projects to the team that will operate it.
Session 2The paperwork for high-speed rail and transit projects that is actually needed
- Build the competence framework that supports high-speed rail and transit projects.
- Build the internal briefing that explains transit projects to those affected.
- Define how the benefit from high-speed rail and transit projects will be measured after closure.
- Record the rationale for each significant choice made about transit projects.
Transit projects: change control and variation
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Managing suppliers delivering part of transit projects
- Identify the data already collected that bears on high-speed rail and transit projects.
- Measure progress on transit projects by value earned, not tasks ticked.
- Write down the assumptions underpinning the approach to high-speed rail and transit projects.
- Prepare the summary of transit projects that senior management will read.
Session 2Making transit projects work when resources are constrained
- Set the change control process for high-speed rail and transit projects and require cost and time impact.
- Agree the smallest change to transit projects that would be visibly useful.
- Check that high-speed rail and transit projects still works when volumes rise unexpectedly.
- Write the scope statement for transit projects including explicit exclusions.
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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