Project Management

Planning and Delivering Population Census and National Survey Projects

An applied course in census and national survey projects built around the decisions practitioners actually face.

  • 5training days
  • 4modules
  • 8sessions
  • 32topics
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Planning and Delivering Population Census and National Survey Projects
5days

About the programme

Course Overview

Stakeholders withdraw support for census and national survey projects quietly before they withdraw it formally. The estimate for survey projects that nobody challenged is usually the one that fails. Sessions alternate between guided analysis of the project and portfolio delivery capability and supervised application. They leave able to brief senior management on census and national survey projects in terms that support a decision. Applied research in project and portfolio delivery consistently shows that early structure around this part of project and portfolio delivery reduces downstream rework. It is designed for mixed groups, so that survey projects is examined from more than one functional angle. Buying a tool rarely fixes census and national survey projects; the underlying capability has to be built internally first. Content is organised around the decisions practitioners actually face in survey projects, not around theory headings. Participants leave with a first-ninety-days plan for this strand of project and portfolio delivery rather than a set of notes.

Expected Learning Outcomes

  • Select indicators that show whether census and national survey projects is improving, and reject those that only look useful.

  • Build a schedule for survey projects with a genuine critical path and realistic durations.

  • Build the reporting on census and national survey projects that gives early warning rather than reassurance.

  • Design a training and briefing approach that sustains competence in survey projects.

  • Recover census and national survey projects when it is behind, without pretending it is not.

  • Diagnose whether a problem in survey projects is one of design, resourcing or discipline.

  • Track progress on census and national survey projects by earned value rather than by activity completed.

Who Should Attend

  • Client and stakeholder representatives monitoring census and national survey projects.

  • Planning staff whose forecasts and budgets are affected by survey projects.

  • Cost engineers and project controls staff on census and national survey projects.

  • Project management office staff assuring survey projects.

  • Project sponsors accountable for the outcome of census and national survey projects.

  • Specialists advising senior management on survey projects.

Course Modules

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01

Census and national survey projects: handover, benefits and lessons

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Handing over census and national survey projects and proving the benefit

  • Identify the critical path through census and national survey projects and the float elsewhere.
  • Name a single owner for each element of survey projects.
  • Identify single points of dependency in census and national survey projects and reduce them.
  • Build the internal briefing that explains survey projects to those affected.

Session 2Recovering survey projects when it is behind

  • Rehearse the briefing on census and national survey projects that would follow an incident.
  • Define the decision gates for survey projects and what evidence each requires.
  • Hold a lessons session on census and national survey projects while memory is accurate.
  • Arrange the handover of survey projects so capability survives staff changes.
02

Survey projects: change control and variation

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Making survey projects work when resources are constrained

  • Establish who is informed, consulted and accountable in census and national survey projects.
  • Establish what evidence demonstrates survey projects is under control.
  • Compare resource demand from census and national survey projects against other commitments.
  • Build the competence framework that supports survey projects.

Session 2Reading the current state of survey projects honestly

  • Review at each gate whether census and national survey projects should continue at all.
  • Estimate survey projects using two independent methods and reconcile the difference.
  • Reduce the variation in how census and national survey projects is carried out between teams.
  • Plan handover of survey projects to the team that will operate it.
03

Survey projects: governance, gates and decision rights

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Pricing every change to survey projects

  • Identify where judgement in census and national survey projects is legitimate and where it is not.
  • Define the trigger that would require survey projects to be redesigned.
  • Measure progress on census and national survey projects by value earned, not tasks ticked.
  • Register the risks to survey projects with owner, probability and impact.

Session 2Keeping stakeholders of census and national survey projects genuinely supportive

  • Record the rationale for each significant choice made about census and national survey projects.
  • Estimate the resource survey projects requires to run as designed.
  • Archive the decision record for census and national survey projects so successors understand it.
  • Define acceptance criteria for each deliverable of survey projects.
04

Survey projects: progress measurement and early warning

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1The paperwork for survey projects that is actually needed

  • Check that census and national survey projects still works when volumes rise unexpectedly.
  • Set the change control process for survey projects and require cost and time impact.
  • Review whether census and national survey projects is aligned with the objectives of the project.
  • Manage supplier performance on survey projects against contract, not goodwill.

Session 2Writing the scope of survey projects including what is excluded

  • Confirm that contractual obligations around census and national survey projects are understood.
  • Write the scope statement for survey projects including explicit exclusions.
  • Prepare the recovery plan for census and national survey projects before it is needed.
  • Agree the escalation threshold for survey projects in advance.

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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