Most recovery effort on refinery shutdown and start-up projects is spent on problems that were visible early. A schedule for start-up projects without a critical path is a wish list with dates. The programme builds the judgement to know which parts of the project and portfolio delivery capability to standardise and which to leave flexible. Content is organised around the decisions practitioners actually face in refinery shutdown and start-up projects, not around theory headings. Participants who influence this strand of project and portfolio delivery without directly controlling it will find the content directly usable. Applied research in project and portfolio delivery consistently shows that early structure around start-up projects reduces downstream rework. Most organisations already have a policy on refinery shutdown and start-up projects; far fewer can show it working. The method assumes participants will be challenged on their handling of start-up projects and prepares them for it. It ends with a prioritised list of changes to this aspect of project and portfolio delivery that the participant is prepared to defend internally.
Expected Learning Outcomes
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Manage stakeholders of refinery shutdown and start-up projects according to influence and interest.
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Distinguish the parts of start-up projects that must be standardised from those that require judgement.
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Adapt recognised practice on refinery shutdown and start-up projects to local constraints without hollowing it out.
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Build a schedule for start-up projects with a genuine critical path and realistic durations.
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Translate policy on refinery shutdown and start-up projects into procedures that hold up under day-to-day pressure.
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Recover start-up projects when it is behind, without pretending it is not.
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Estimate cost and effort for refinery shutdown and start-up projects using more than one method.
Who Should Attend
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Business partners who must understand refinery shutdown and start-up projects well enough to challenge it.
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Client and stakeholder representatives monitoring start-up projects.
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Officers preparing reports on refinery shutdown and start-up projects for boards or oversight committees.
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Team members preparing to take on project responsibility for start-up projects.
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Contract and procurement staff supporting refinery shutdown and start-up projects.
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Cost engineers and project controls staff on start-up projects.
Course Modules
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01
Refinery shutdown and start-up projects: procurement, contracts and suppliers
2 sessions · 8 points
Session 1Recovering refinery shutdown and start-up projects when it is behind
Check that records of refinery shutdown and start-up projects answer the questions likely to be asked.
Register the risks to start-up projects with owner, probability and impact.
Set the change control process for refinery shutdown and start-up projects and require cost and time impact.
Check that start-up projects still works when volumes rise unexpectedly.
Session 2Managing suppliers delivering part of start-up projects
Define acceptance criteria for each deliverable of refinery shutdown and start-up projects.
Archive the decision record for start-up projects so successors understand it.
Establish who is informed, consulted and accountable in refinery shutdown and start-up projects.
Agree the escalation threshold for start-up projects in advance.
02
Start-up projects: governance, gates and decision rights
2 sessions · 8 points
Session 1Handing over start-up projects and proving the benefit
Define how the benefit from refinery shutdown and start-up projects will be measured after closure.
Compare resource demand from start-up projects against other commitments.
Define the decision gates for refinery shutdown and start-up projects and what evidence each requires.
Write the scope statement for start-up projects including explicit exclusions.
Session 2Writing the scope of start-up projects including what is excluded
Review whether refinery shutdown and start-up projects is aligned with the objectives of the project.
Identify the critical path through start-up projects and the float elsewhere.
Prepare the summary of refinery shutdown and start-up projects that senior management will read.
Set the review interval for start-up projects and who attends.
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Start-up projects: risk identification, quantification and ownership
2 sessions · 8 points
Session 1Building lasting competence in start-up projects
Estimate refinery shutdown and start-up projects using two independent methods and reconcile the difference.
Prepare the response for the most likely failure in start-up projects.
Agree what will be standardised in refinery shutdown and start-up projects and what will not.
Set out how exceptions to start-up projects are requested and approved.
Session 2Closing refinery shutdown and start-up projects and capturing what was learned
Map stakeholders of refinery shutdown and start-up projects by influence and current level of support.
Collect evidence on the present handling of start-up projects before proposing changes.
Reduce the variation in how refinery shutdown and start-up projects is carried out between teams.
Prepare the recovery plan for start-up projects before it is needed.
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Start-up projects: schedule, critical path and realistic duration
2 sessions · 8 points
Session 1Where start-up projects typically breaks, and why
Agree the indicators that will show whether refinery shutdown and start-up projects is improving.
Benchmark the organisation's start-up projects against comparable operations.
Agree the smallest change to refinery shutdown and start-up projects that would be visibly useful.
Build reporting on start-up projects that surfaces problems while they are small.
Session 2The paperwork for start-up projects that is actually needed
Measure progress on refinery shutdown and start-up projects by value earned, not tasks ticked.
Hold a lessons session on start-up projects while memory is accurate.
Map the handovers in refinery shutdown and start-up projects between functions and secure them.
Anticipate the objections start-up projects will raise and prepare the answers.
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