Director

Client:

Operations SPV

Task:

Independent project review with assessment and reporting of operational readiness to client senior management.

Solution:

Developed and monitored an integrated schedule combining the construction delivery project and pre-operations activities into a single pre-opening readiness plan.

Outcome:

A coordinated and independent assessment of the overall pre-operational status and bridging of the construction and operational teams.

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• Current Status
  The first step to be taken is to find out the true current status of the project. This will involve an examination of the programme and/or budget as well as gathering information from your project team in order to produce an independent report on the true current status and the issues.

• Options for Recovery
  After determining the current status, appropriate future options are examined with your team and different scenarios for programme, budget and resource changes examined in detail.

• Recommendations
  After identifying the suitable options we will produce a report describing the most feasible options together with implementation recommendations for how to proceed.

• Actions and Responsibilities
  If required, we can then assist your team to implement the recovery actions and ensure that the recovery options are working and that the project is now trending in the right direction.

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• Project Audits
  Project audits can be carried out as either a regular independent Quality Assurance programme, or as one off exercises should issues or key project stages require. The Contracts Group can carry out audits on both the project and the management systems being used, to identify problems, suggest solutions and promote continuous improvement.

• Process Maturity Review
  Using an industry standard 5 stage maturity model, we can review your in-house processes, procedures and skillsets and recommend improvement targets and implementation steps as appropriate. A programme of regular maturity assessments at appropriate intervals can measure tangible improvements over time and demonstrate that your organisation is reaping the benefits of more mature processes and achieving repeatable performance.

• Standards and Quality Assurance
  There are two services we can offer in this area, firstly we can develop project management standards for your organisation, based on best practice from the professional project management bodies. Secondly we can review current standards for benchmarking and improvement and review the compliance of your projects and staff against those standards.

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• Qualitative Risk Analysis
  Based around the ISO 31000 standard for Risk Management, our iterative approach through facilitating project team risk workshops, is to identify and analyse the risks, prioritise them for management attention, assign ownership and then design risk management approaches to reduce the risk to the required manageable levels.The output from a qualitative risk method is primarily a risk register that your project staff can review on a regular basis and use as the tool to focus project staff on the identified risks and undertake an ongoing risk management process.

• Quantitative Risk Analysis
  Our quantitative risks analysis services cover the application of a broad range of risk techniques such as Monte Carlo, LOPA, HAZOP etc. We will structure the process to fit the exact circumstances of your project and the nature of the risks to be assessed. For example, the approach to determining programme or cost risks is completely different to the techniques suitable for assessing operational or safety risks. Therefore, before we start such a process we would need to fully understand your requirements and the types of risks you require assessing.

• Ongoing Risk Management
  Once an initial risk analysis is undertaken, we can offer a continuing service, whereby at regular intervals, we can audit and/or offer a quality assurance service to verify that the risk management activities are being undertaken as planned. We can also offer management of further risk workshops or studies, which may be appropriate as the project stages progress and change.

• Risk Policies and Procedures
  As well as undertaking risk studies on live or planned projects, we can also develop for your company standard risk policies and procedures based around the ISO 31000 series of standards. These policies can be tailored from Enterprise Risk level, suitable for companywide adoption across all business processes, down to specific measures targeted at individual projects or addressing specific business risks. We can then advise and assist you through the introduction and adoption phases, transitioning the risk controls, practices and reporting into everyday usage.

• Risk Management Training
  In addition to our consultancy services, we can also offer training in both basic and advanced qualitative and quantitative risk analysis techniques. We can tailor the training to reflect both your company processes and typical project or working environments.

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• Standards and Processes
  We can quickly develop and put in place standards and processes to help clients mobilise and establish the project. These ensure that disparate teams have a common basis to deliver against in the early project stages before they get fully up to speed.
• Structure and Governance
  We can help you design a project organisational structure in order to facilitate clear lines of communication, teamwork and seniority so that you can start delivering your commitments on time and on budget. For client organisations we can design governance structures to suit either individual projects or for repeated use on programmes and portfolios.
• Project Controls Frameworks
  With the wealth of experience we have of complex, multi-disciplinary projects, we can develop for or advise you on the best methods and processes for ensuring that your projects remain on programme and within budget. These methods and processes would include recording progress, records storage, coordinating works streams, monitoring and controlling costs, and contractual obligations and consolidating the various parties' progress reporting into an accurate and easy to understand overall picture.
• Portfolio, Programme and Projects
  For companies running a complete portfolio of projects, programmes or groups of concurrent projects, we can help to schedule and prioritise the projects to optimize your resource requirements and smoothen cash flows whilst still aiming to maximise your return on investment.
• Planning
  The up-front design of the initial programme and sequence of works to be undertaken has been proven time and again to have an important bearing on the ultimate success of a project. Scheduling a complex programme of individual but related projects requires not only an understanding of the individual projects to be undertaken but also the interfaces and critical dependencies of the on-site construction process including the supply chain, procurement processes, and the statutory submission and approval steps. Our experienced planners can help you through these complex stages and produce programmes that accurately reflect the methodology, timing and complex dependencies of your projects.
• Reporting
  Regular and accurate reporting of the progress and performance across a programme of individual projects is necessary for ensuring that all parties and parts of the programme are aligned and delivering to time and budget. This approach also gives an overall picture of the issues and successes at a high level. Usually the projects are linked by interfaces and dependencies that allow issues to be isolated and corrective action to be undertaken before there are knock on effects to subsequent projects. Our experience in developing and running reporting systems on very large projects enables us to quickly setup reporting processes and start identifying issues before they become critical. This assists you to make early informed decisions with reliable and objective facts at hand.

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