Best Practices for Government Project Management
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Available 4th quarter 2010
Independent Project Analysis, Inc (IPA) has analyzed several hundred projects executed by governments and found that on average costs are 20% higher and construction schedules are 30% longer than the best performing projects of similar scope executed in the private sector. Contributing to this performance is the fact that these government projects lag the private sector in the use of Best Practices. Best
Practices for Government Project Management integrates findings from IPA’s extensive quantitative research that links practices for project planning and execution for government-funded projects that lead to superior outcomes. This program is registered with the Project Management Institute (PMI), allowing attendees to easily claim 16 Professional Development Units (PDUs) upon completion of the course.
Key Benefits
- LEARN the Best Practices to improve cost, schedule, operability, and safety performance
- APPLY learnings to ongoing and future projects
- EXPLORE how to set and achieve predictable cost and schedule results
- RECOGNIZE the resource needs to effectively manage, plan, and execute a government project
- MANAGE scope for predictable project outcomes
- IDENTIFY and mitigate risk
- DISCOVER the Value Improving Practices Industry uses to leverage extra value from a solid project definition package
- IMPLEMENT effective project controls
Course Format
Project Management for Government Employees is a 2-day training program. The format uses a combination of lecture, discussion and illustrative case examples to demonstrate and document the salient concepts. Participants share their experiences and relate learnings to their own experience through facilitated discussions. Case studies, using examples from projects executed by government agencies, allow participants to apply course learnings to their projects. The cost of this course includes lunch and material. Dress is business casual.
Target Audience
The program is intended for all involved in the definition and execution of projects, including both agency and contractor staff. Participants benefit from the lessons derived from the thousands of projects in IPA's database.
Course Content
This course contains the following highlights.
Linking Practices to Outcome
Introduction to how practices drive cost, schedule, and safety results for government sponsored projects
Measurement of projects performance, methodology to quantify the effect of practices on project performance, predictability metrics, and competitiveness metrics
Integration Management Through Project Governance
- Discussion of the business stake in effective gated processes
- Identification of the key deliverables at each stage that provide the basis of making “go/no go” decisions at each project stage
- Demonstration of the benefits of the gated process, and the consequences of deviating from the work process
- Funding cycles and the authorization of government projects
Resource Management
- Understanding components of an effective team and owner core competencies
- Managing interfaces across many functions and understanding the impact of turnover in key team roles
Scope Management and Definition
- Site definition components
- Engineering deliverables needed for scope definition
- Project execution plan and its components
Cost and Time Management
- Components of a cost and schedule estimate as it moves through the project work process
- Impact an estimate has on a project’s financial analysis
- Estimating practices that lead to a better basis for a cost control plan and practices that can effectively accelerate schedule
Quality and Controls Management
- Elements of a project control plan
- Practices for effective control and for preventing execution problems
- Best Practices for controlling cost growth and schedule slip
Practices to Improve Value
- Defining VIPs, their impact on project outcomes, and how to develop a VIPs implementation plan
Contracting Management
- Critical elements of contracting strategies and the implications the choices of strategy has on project management
Practices to Improve Construction Safety Performance
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Practices that improve safety performance
Risk Management
- Tools and techniques for identifying, quantifying, and mitigating risks
Implementing Improvements
- Key practices, policies, and procedures needed for identifying, shaping, and executing capital investments
- Attributes of successful and failed implementations of gated systems will be shared.
Claiming PDUs
Best Practices for Mining Projects is officially registered with PMI, which allows attendees to easily claim 16 PDUs upon completion of the course. Simply visit the PMI Continuing Certification Requirements site and submit the PDU Activity Reporting Form (Provider Number: 2767 / Activity Number: INS-GOV). For those claiming PDUs through other education organizations, please note that the duration of this course is 16 hours.
Best Practices for Government Project Management
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