Build a schedule for infrastructure and smart city projects with a genuine critical path and realistic durations.
Planning and Managing Infrastructure Projects and Smart City Development
A practical programme in infrastructure and smart city projects for professionals who are accountable for results, not just awareness.
📍 Abu Dhabi🗓️ 5 training days📚 4 modules🎓 Accredited certificate
5intensive training days
4scientific modules
8training sessions
32detailed points
Course Overview
Stakeholders withdraw support for infrastructure and smart city projects quietly before they withdraw it formally. Projects involving city projects are rarely late all at once; they are late a day at a time. They acquire practical criteria for judging when the wider project and portfolio delivery agenda is working and when it is only appearing to. Most organisations already have a policy on infrastructure and smart city projects; far fewer can show it working. The content is relevant to those who own this strand of project and portfolio delivery and to those who are held accountable for its results. Field experience suggests that the barrier to better city projects is rarely technical. Participants apply infrastructure and smart city projects to their own project throughout, so the output is directly usable. Participants leave with a method for city projects, not a set of opinions about it. Participants leave with a plan for this area of project and portfolio delivery sized to what their organisation can realistically absorb.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Identify and quantify the risks to city projects and assign owners.
Review contracts and agreements for the obligations they create around infrastructure and smart city projects.
Diagnose whether a problem in city projects is one of design, resourcing or discipline.
Establish quality acceptance criteria for the deliverables of infrastructure and smart city projects.
Set the minimum documentation for city projects that is genuinely necessary, and stop there.
Build the reporting on infrastructure and smart city projects that gives early warning rather than reassurance.
Who Should Attend
Business change managers handling adoption of infrastructure and smart city projects.
Team members preparing to take on project responsibility for city projects.
Project managers responsible for infrastructure and smart city projects.
Operations staff who encounter the consequences of city projects directly.
Programme and portfolio managers overseeing infrastructure and smart city projects.
Analysts producing the data on which decisions about city projects rest.
Course Modules
Infrastructure and smart city projects: governance, gates and decision rights
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1What to measure in infrastructure and smart city projects and what to ignore
- Establish who is informed, consulted and accountable in infrastructure and smart city projects.
- Arrange the handover of city projects so capability survives staff changes.
- Archive the decision record for infrastructure and smart city projects so successors understand it.
- Manage supplier performance on city projects against contract, not goodwill.
Session 2Closing city projects and capturing what was learned
- Estimate the resource infrastructure and smart city projects requires to run as designed.
- Rank the weaknesses in city projects by consequence rather than by ease of fixing.
- Map stakeholders of infrastructure and smart city projects by influence and current level of support.
- Set out the decisions in city projects that require sign-off and by whom.
City projects: schedule, critical path and realistic duration
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Writing the scope of city projects including what is excluded
- Prepare the response for the most likely failure in infrastructure and smart city projects.
- Map the handovers in city projects between functions and secure them.
- Identify single points of dependency in infrastructure and smart city projects and reduce them.
- Prepare the recovery plan for city projects before it is needed.
Session 2Building the method for city projects step by step
- Agree the indicators that will show whether infrastructure and smart city projects is improving.
- Build the work breakdown for city projects to a level that can be estimated.
- Agree the escalation threshold for infrastructure and smart city projects in advance.
- Measure progress on city projects by value earned, not tasks ticked.
City projects: progress measurement and early warning
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Building a schedule for city projects with a real critical path
- Compare resource demand from infrastructure and smart city projects against other commitments.
- Plan handover of city projects to the team that will operate it.
- Verify six months later that changes to infrastructure and smart city projects have held.
- Review at each gate whether city projects should continue at all.
Session 2Decision gates on infrastructure and smart city projects that can actually stop it
- Record the rationale for each significant choice made about infrastructure and smart city projects.
- Hold a lessons session on city projects while memory is accurate.
- Establish what evidence demonstrates infrastructure and smart city projects is under control.
- Estimate city projects using two independent methods and reconcile the difference.
City projects: scope definition and exclusions
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Measuring progress on city projects honestly
- Build reporting on infrastructure and smart city projects that surfaces problems while they are small.
- Rehearse the briefing on city projects that would follow an incident.
- Set the change control process for infrastructure and smart city projects and require cost and time impact.
- Define how the benefit from city projects will be measured after closure.
Session 2Testing city projects before relying on it
- Compare the cost of infrastructure and smart city projects with the cost of its absence.
- Prepare the summary of city projects that senior management will read.
- Confirm that contractual obligations around infrastructure and smart city projects are understood.
- Register the risks to city projects with owner, probability and impact.
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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
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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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