Course Outline

Session 1: Stages and Frameworks

• The role and importance of Rail Projects
• Aligning with Rail investment needs, project objectives, cost estimates, risk assessments,
• Critical success factors and measures of project benefits
• Project Management Lifecycle stages, frameworks, definitions, types of projects
• Accountabilities and governance, roles and responsibilities,
  power and influence

Session 2: Project Initiation

• 3 pillars of Project management
• Building your business case
• Tenders and contract negotiations
• Project identification and proposal
• Project Management Integration – PM autonomy and functional and critical path interdependencies
• Project prioritization

Session 3: Project Planning (1)

• Addressing client and stakeholder needs identification
• Building effective project teams and alliances – comparing risk-weighted costs of alternatives procurement options, including the estimated direct procurement and managing subcontractors
• Planning economical, efficient, safe projects with realistic return on investment

Session 4: Project Planning (2)

• Balancing project strategies and tactics
• Managing across organisational borders
• Setting measurable outcomes and outputs

Session 5: Project execution (1)

• Stakeholder management, reporting and documentation
• Managing project risks
• Managing change and variations

Session 6: Project execution (2)

• Performance measurement
• Maintaining client focus, budgets and costs
• Managing timelines, milestones and schedules

Session 7: Project closure and evaluation

• Knowing when to pull the plug
• Project closure
• Evaluating value capture and benefits realisation

Session 8: Review and evaluate

• Applying outcomes realisation plans and post-implementation reviews for rail projects
• Independent reviews of procurement decisions for rail projects
• Action planning for your next project