Assign clear ownership for each element of project handover and lessons learned across the functions involved.
Project Handover, Closure and Capturing Lessons Learned
A working programme in project handover and lessons learned for managers who have to deliver with existing resources.
📍 Cairo🗓️ 5 training days📚 4 modules🎓 Accredited certificate
5intensive training days
4scientific modules
8training sessions
32detailed points
Course Overview
Scope on project handover and lessons learned expands through small agreements made in isolation. Most recovery effort on lessons learned is spent on problems that were visible early. Work is grounded in real cases drawn from this area of project and portfolio delivery, which each participant adapts to conditions in their own organisation. The version of project handover and lessons learned described in the manual and the version practised on the floor tend to diverge over time. The programme builds the judgement to know which parts of this part of project and portfolio delivery to standardise and which to leave flexible. Across sectors, teams that rehearse lessons learned outperform teams that only plan it. The course gives participants a defensible structure for project handover and lessons learned and the judgement to adapt it. The material serves both public bodies and commercial organisations dealing with lessons learned. Participants finish with a short, specific brief on the wider project and portfolio delivery agenda ready to put in front of a decision maker.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Track progress on lessons learned by earned value rather than by activity completed.
Agree the first three actions on project handover and lessons learned that will be taken on returning to work.
Choose the delivery approach for lessons learned — predictive, adaptive or hybrid — deliberately.
Control change to project handover and lessons learned so every variation has a price and a decision.
Manage contracts and suppliers delivering parts of lessons learned.
Build a concise delivery plan for project handover and lessons learned that colleagues can follow without further explanation.
Who Should Attend
Members of committees that take decisions affecting project handover and lessons learned.
Programme and portfolio managers overseeing lessons learned.
Specialists advising senior management on project handover and lessons learned.
Project managers responsible for lessons learned.
Technical leads delivering work packages within project handover and lessons learned.
Cost engineers and project controls staff on lessons learned.
Course Modules
Project handover and lessons learned: handover, benefits and lessons
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Building a schedule for project handover and lessons learned with a real critical path
- Compare the cost of project handover and lessons learned with the cost of its absence.
- Define acceptance criteria for each deliverable of lessons learned.
- Archive the decision record for project handover and lessons learned so successors understand it.
- Estimate lessons learned using two independent methods and reconcile the difference.
Session 2Getting other functions to support lessons learned
- Set out the decisions in project handover and lessons learned that require sign-off and by whom.
- Measure progress on lessons learned by value earned, not tasks ticked.
- Agree the indicators that will show whether project handover and lessons learned is improving.
- Identify the data already collected that bears on lessons learned.
Lessons learned: procurement, contracts and suppliers
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Recovering lessons learned when it is behind
- Check that records of project handover and lessons learned answer the questions likely to be asked.
- Draft the minimum viable delivery plan for lessons learned.
- Set the change control process for project handover and lessons learned and require cost and time impact.
- Define how the benefit from lessons learned will be measured after closure.
Session 2Moving lessons learned from approval to execution
- Prepare the summary of project handover and lessons learned that senior management will read.
- Map stakeholders of lessons learned by influence and current level of support.
- Plan the sequence in which improvements to project handover and lessons learned will be introduced.
- Compare resource demand from lessons learned against other commitments.
Lessons learned: progress measurement and early warning
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Handing over lessons learned and proving the benefit
- Hold a lessons session on project handover and lessons learned while memory is accurate.
- Agree what will be standardised in lessons learned and what will not.
- Write the scope statement for project handover and lessons learned including explicit exclusions.
- Define the trigger that would require lessons learned to be redesigned.
Session 2Reading the current state of project handover and lessons learned honestly
- Plan handover of project handover and lessons learned to the team that will operate it.
- Confirm that those complying with lessons learned understand why it exists.
- Identify the critical path through project handover and lessons learned and the float elsewhere.
- Agree the escalation threshold for lessons learned in advance.
Lessons learned: schedule, critical path and realistic duration
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Measuring progress on lessons learned honestly
- Build the internal briefing that explains project handover and lessons learned to those affected.
- Define acceptance criteria for lessons learned in advance.
- Define the decision gates for project handover and lessons learned and what evidence each requires.
- Assign responsibility for keeping documentation of lessons learned current.
Session 2The risks to lessons learned nobody wants to raise
- Prepare the recovery plan for project handover and lessons learned before it is needed.
- Register the risks to lessons learned with owner, probability and impact.
- Close out actions on project handover and lessons learned rather than leaving them open indefinitely.
- Set the review interval for lessons learned and who attends.
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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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