Project Management

Planning Vertical Farming and Smart Agriculture Technology Projects

Practical training in vertical and smart farming projects, grounded in real cases and applied to your own operation.

  • 5training days
  • 4modules
  • 8sessions
  • 32topics
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Planning Vertical Farming and Smart Agriculture Technology Projects
5days

About the programme

Course Overview

Projects involving vertical and smart farming projects are rarely late all at once; they are late a day at a time. Most recovery effort on farming projects is spent on problems that were visible early. Participants take away a working set of documents supporting this part of project and portfolio delivery, ready to be adapted internally. Practitioner evidence points the same way: vertical and smart farming projects improves fastest where responsibility for it is named and owned. It is pitched for practitioners with responsibility for the wider project and portfolio delivery agenda, not for observers of it. Ambition around farming projects outruns capacity unless the sequencing is deliberate. Participants leave with a method for vertical and smart farming projects, not a set of opinions about it. The teaching approach is deliberately practical: participants build a delivery plan for farming projects as they go. Participants finish with a short, specific brief on this part of project and portfolio delivery ready to put in front of a decision maker.

Expected Learning Outcomes

  • Plan handover and benefit realisation for vertical and smart farming projects.

  • Plan resource and capacity for farming projects against other commitments.

  • Prepare a short, evidence-based briefing on vertical and smart farming projects for senior management.

  • Manage dependencies between farming projects and other initiatives.

  • Test the organisation's response to vertical and smart farming projects under conditions that are less than ideal.

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

  • Define the scope and boundaries of vertical and smart farming projects so that responsibility for it is unambiguous.

Who Should Attend

  • Risk managers supporting vertical and smart farming projects.

  • Project sponsors accountable for the outcome of farming projects.

  • Contract and procurement staff supporting vertical and smart farming projects.

  • Consultants and advisers supporting clients on farming projects.

  • Officers preparing reports on vertical and smart farming projects for boards or oversight committees.

  • Project management office staff assuring farming projects.

Course Modules

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01

Vertical and smart farming projects: change control and variation

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Reviewing vertical and smart farming projects when nothing has gone wrong

  • Rank the weaknesses in vertical and smart farming projects by consequence rather than by ease of fixing.
  • Prepare the recovery plan for farming projects before it is needed.
  • Confirm that contractual obligations around vertical and smart farming projects are understood.
  • Plan handover of farming projects to the team that will operate it.

Session 2Decision gates on farming projects that can actually stop it

  • Define acceptance criteria for vertical and smart farming projects in advance.
  • Compare resource demand from farming projects against other commitments.
  • Prepare the response for the most likely failure in vertical and smart farming projects.
  • Plan the sequence in which improvements to farming projects will be introduced.
02

Farming projects: governance, gates and decision rights

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Building a schedule for farming projects with a real critical path

  • Compare the cost of vertical and smart farming projects with the cost of its absence.
  • Build reporting on farming projects that surfaces problems while they are small.
  • Rehearse the briefing on vertical and smart farming projects that would follow an incident.
  • Archive the decision record for farming projects so successors understand it.

Session 2Managing suppliers delivering part of farming projects

  • Hold a lessons session on vertical and smart farming projects while memory is accurate.
  • Name a single owner for each element of farming projects.
  • Measure progress on vertical and smart farming projects by value earned, not tasks ticked.
  • Agree what will be standardised in farming projects and what will not.
03

Farming projects: progress measurement and early warning

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Keeping stakeholders of farming projects genuinely supportive

  • Register the risks to vertical and smart farming projects with owner, probability and impact.
  • Define the trigger that would require farming projects to be redesigned.
  • Manage supplier performance on vertical and smart farming projects against contract, not goodwill.
  • Identify the critical path through farming projects and the float elsewhere.

Session 2The decisions in vertical and smart farming projects that cannot be delegated

  • Estimate the resource vertical and smart farming projects requires to run as designed.
  • Record the rationale for each significant choice made about farming projects.
  • Define how the benefit from vertical and smart farming projects will be measured after closure.
  • Map stakeholders of farming projects by influence and current level of support.
04

Farming projects: stakeholders, communication and support

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1The risks to farming projects nobody wants to raise

  • Assign responsibility for keeping documentation of vertical and smart farming projects current.
  • Decide what will be stopped to create capacity for farming projects.
  • Test the procedure for vertical and smart farming projects against a realistic scenario.
  • Define acceptance criteria for each deliverable of farming projects.

Session 2The hard cases in farming projects and how to reason about them

  • Review at each gate whether vertical and smart farming projects should continue at all.
  • Define the decision gates for farming projects and what evidence each requires.
  • Record what was learned when vertical and smart farming projects did not go as planned.
  • Agree the escalation threshold for farming 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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