CAPITAL PROJECT MANAGEMENT PLANNING

Our advisors can contribute to the quality of this key process that encompasses project execution planning and project procedure development, budgeting, project delivery and contracting methods, stakeholder alignment, team building, and project communication plans. 

Our project planning advisory services crosscut all the subsidiary plans incorporated under an overall project management plan for a capital project. Our goal is to ensure the integrated plan mirrors the total scope of work, fully defines its objectives, and the course of action to attain the objectives, regardless of whether we are engaged at the outset of a new project or at another point in its life cycle. 

Depending upon project characteristics and available information when engaged, we examine the soundness of each subsidiary plan and baseline within the project management plan – including but not limited to some or all of the following: 

• Scope Baseline
• Cost Baseline
• Schedule Baseline
• Scope Management Plan
• Schedule Management Plan
• Cost Management Plan
• Quality Management Plan
• Human Resource Management Plan
• Communications Management Plan
• Risk Management Plan
• Procurement Management Plan
• Stakeholder Management Plan

We review available and necessary project documents beginning with those generated during project initiation (usually a feasibility or FEED study used for project authorization), and the development process or current version of each component of a client’s project management plan.  Our focus is on the health of the overall project execution plan based on conducting a thorough analysis of the lower tier plans using expert judgement, brainstorming, analysis techniques, statistical sampling, strategic options, benchmarking, and meetings with project team members.  Special attention is given to evaluation of each subsidiary plan’s contribution to the project’s execution, monitoring and control processes.  Our deliverable is a complete report identifying strengths and weaknesses of the project management plan, its compliance with industry standards for project management, and recommendations for correction of any deficiencies.