Project Management

Planning Network Infrastructure and Fifth-Generation System Projects

An applied course in network infrastructure projects built around the decisions practitioners actually face.

  • 5training days
  • 4modules
  • 8sessions
  • 32topics
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Planning Network Infrastructure and Fifth-Generation System Projects
5days

About the programme

Course Overview

Stakeholders withdraw support for network infrastructure projects quietly before they withdraw it formally. The estimate for this aspect of project and portfolio delivery that nobody challenged is usually the one that fails. It is written for people who have to make the project and portfolio delivery capability work with the resources they already have. Practitioner evidence points the same way: network infrastructure projects improves fastest where responsibility for it is named and owned. Buying a tool rarely fixes this aspect of project and portfolio delivery; the underlying capability has to be built internally first. It establishes a shared vocabulary for the wider project and portfolio delivery agenda so that teams can disagree productively about it. The teaching approach is deliberately practical: participants build a delivery plan for network infrastructure projects as they go. They acquire practical criteria for judging when the project and portfolio delivery discipline is working and when it is only appearing to. Participants leave with a first-ninety-days plan for the project and portfolio delivery capability rather than a set of notes.

Expected Learning Outcomes

  • Manage dependencies between network infrastructure projects and other initiatives.

  • Review contracts and agreements for the obligations they create around network infrastructure projects.

  • Plan handover and benefit realisation for network infrastructure projects.

  • Adapt recognised practice on network infrastructure projects to local constraints without hollowing it out.

  • Present the case for investment in network infrastructure projects in terms that a finance function will accept.

  • Choose the delivery approach for network infrastructure projects — predictive, adaptive or hybrid — deliberately.

  • Design the governance and decision rights for network infrastructure projects.

Who Should Attend

  • Managers of multi-site operations seeking consistency in network infrastructure projects.

  • Cost engineers and project controls staff on network infrastructure projects.

  • Experienced practitioners formalising an approach to network infrastructure projects that has grown up informally.

  • Contract and procurement staff supporting network infrastructure projects.

  • Team members preparing to take on project responsibility for network infrastructure projects.

  • Project management office staff assuring network infrastructure projects.

Course Modules

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01

Network infrastructure projects: scope definition and exclusions

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Managing suppliers delivering part of network infrastructure projects

  • Draft the minimum viable delivery plan for network infrastructure projects.
  • Establish who is informed, consulted and accountable in network infrastructure projects.
  • Write the scope statement for network infrastructure projects including explicit exclusions.
  • Agree the smallest change to network infrastructure projects that would be visibly useful.

Session 2Getting other functions to support network infrastructure projects

  • Review whether network infrastructure projects is aligned with the objectives of the project.
  • Identify the critical path through network infrastructure projects and the float elsewhere.
  • Anticipate the objections network infrastructure projects will raise and prepare the answers.
  • Check that records of network infrastructure projects answer the questions likely to be asked.
02

Network infrastructure projects: progress measurement and early warning

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Handing over network infrastructure projects and proving the benefit

  • Define how the benefit from network infrastructure projects will be measured after closure.
  • Plan handover of network infrastructure projects to the team that will operate it.
  • Identify single points of dependency in network infrastructure projects and reduce them.
  • Build reporting on network infrastructure projects that surfaces problems while they are small.

Session 2Testing network infrastructure projects before relying on it

  • Manage supplier performance on network infrastructure projects against contract, not goodwill.
  • Build the work breakdown for network infrastructure projects to a level that can be estimated.
  • Define acceptance criteria for each deliverable of network infrastructure projects.
  • Agree the escalation threshold for network infrastructure projects in advance.
03

Network infrastructure projects: procurement, contracts and suppliers

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Recovering network infrastructure projects when it is behind

  • Plan the sequence in which improvements to network infrastructure projects will be introduced.
  • Remove steps in network infrastructure projects that add effort without adding assurance.
  • Compare resource demand from network infrastructure projects against other commitments.
  • Prepare the recovery plan for network infrastructure projects before it is needed.

Session 2Estimating network infrastructure projects without anchoring on the answer wanted

  • Define the decision gates for network infrastructure projects and what evidence each requires.
  • Define the trigger that would require network infrastructure projects to be redesigned.
  • Map stakeholders of network infrastructure projects by influence and current level of support.
  • Set the review interval for network infrastructure projects and who attends.
04

Network infrastructure projects: risk identification, quantification and ownership

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Reviewing network infrastructure projects when nothing has gone wrong

  • Review at each gate whether network infrastructure projects should continue at all.
  • Verify six months later that changes to network infrastructure projects have held.
  • Register the risks to network infrastructure projects with owner, probability and impact.
  • Reduce the variation in how network infrastructure projects is carried out between teams.

Session 2Keeping stakeholders of network infrastructure projects genuinely supportive

  • Distinguish symptoms from causes when network infrastructure projects underperforms.
  • Rehearse the briefing on network infrastructure projects that would follow an incident.
  • Estimate network infrastructure projects using two independent methods and reconcile the difference.
  • Assign responsibility for keeping documentation of network infrastructure projects current.

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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