What we do
Project Management Training
Project teams trained to run the process they are given.
We train owner and project teams in the governance, controls and procedures that hold a built-asset project to time, cost and quality, from inception to close out.
Procedure that teams can run
A project can be set up correctly and still drift. The governance is in place, the programme is baselined and the risk register is open, but the team responsible for maintaining them was never trained to do so. Reports are produced without being read, change is absorbed without being priced, and the controls exist on paper while the project runs on habit.
We train teams in the method our own project managers use. Each programme is built around the RIBA Plan of Work and the PMI principles on which our practice is based, applied proportionately to the size of the organisation and the projects it runs. Existing competence is assessed at the outset, so that time is spent on what the team cannot yet do.
Teaching is set in the context of this market, including its contracts, its approvals, its supply chain and its site conditions. Sessions are led by practitioners who manage projects themselves and work from the client’s own projects wherever possible, so that what is learned in the session is applied on the project. Each programme concludes with an assessment of what participants are now able to do.
Capabilities
- Training needs and competence assessment
- Project initiation and governance
- Brief development and stage gate management
- Programme and schedule management
- Cost control and reporting
- Risk and change management
- Contract administration
- Testing, commissioning and handover
Delivery solutions
- In-house programmes
- Project team mobilisation
- PMO capability building
- Coaching for project managers
Capability that outlasts the project
Training is most effective when it is attached to live work. Where the client wishes, we run programmes alongside our own appointment, so that the client’s team takes over a method it has already practised and carries it into the projects that follow.