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Operational Project Performance Evaluation, Analysis & Audit For Identifying, Measuring & Assessing Your Organization’s Project Effectiveness - Efficiency - Goal Achievement

PA-204  (2 weeks)

Operational Project Performance Evaluation Audit

Measuring Project Effectiveness, Efficiency Goal Achievement

A VERY PRACTICAL PROGRAM

A 2 week Intensive Workshop

This Program builds strong Project Analysis, Auditing and Management Skills in the participants.

It will build capabilities for verifying that the organization’s policies, objectives, plans, processes, written procedures and all other elements of Project activities are being implemented, and are operating, effectively – achieving your organization’s strategic goals.

This program will also help you Identify Continuous Improvement Opportunities by…

  • Building a high level of understanding of all project processes including for each process: What? How? Why? When? Risks? Impact on Strategic Goals?

  • Following a Very Practical Checklist approach to make learning relevant and applicable to On-the-Job Performance Needs.

  • Showing what is involved to bring project operations in Compliance with ISO-9000 requirements – including the New Draft Standard due to be effective from 2000.

Program Schedule

 

Worldwide Training Dates USA Training Schedule
  • 11-22 July 10 (London)

  • 20-31 Aug 10 (Dubai)

  • 9-20 Aug 10 (Kuala Lumpur)

  • 19-30 Sept 10 (Dubai)

  • 4-15 Oct 10 (London)

  • 11-22 Oct 10 (Cape Town, South Africa)

  • 15 Oct -26 Oct 10 (Dubai)

  • 27 Oct -7 Nov 10 (London)

  • 7-18 Nov 10 (Kuala Lumpur)

  • 26 Nov - 4 Dec 10 (London)

  • 6-17 Dec 10 (London)

  • 5-16 Dec 10 (Dubai)

  • 15-26 Dec 10 (Dubai)

  • 21 July - 1 Aug 10 (San Francisco)

  • 1-12 Sept 10 (San Francisco)

  • 16-27 Nov 10 (San Francisco)

  • 21 Dec 10 - 1 Jan 2011 (San Francisco)

PROGRAM CONTENT METHODOLOGY

  • This Program extensively relies on Checklists, Procedures, Step-by-Step Instructions and Case-Studies.

  • Emphasis is on Easy Practical Approach to Solving Problems.

  • Covers: the Issues, Procedures, Key Questions Methodology Guidelines

Part-I (First week)

Management Processes Procedures on Projects, including Continuous Improvement Opportunities On Projects

  • The Nature of Projects, Project Performance Problems.

  • Risks on Projects

  • Organizational Procedures and Contract Administration

  • Understanding Continuous Improvement as applied to Projects: Company Strategic Direction – Clarify Strategic Objectives – Determine Unit of Competitive Advantage. What to Improve? What not to Improve? How to establish Improvement Priorities?

  • Implementing Continuous Improvement. Including: Setting up measurement standards - How will we know we have achieved the set goal? Implementation, Communication, Organizing and Motivation Issues. Change Management.

  • Proactive Decision Support Systems for Projects.

Part-II (Second Week)

Conducting an Operational Project Performance Analysis or Audit

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Current Developments Advanced Issues

  • Risk Based Audits Risk Management

  • Self Control Assessment

  • Selling Audit Reports Recommendations

  • New Tools Techniques

  • Business Process Continuous Improvement Methodology

  • ISO-9000 Internal Audits

  • TQM

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Audit Planning

  • Establishing Scope Objectives

  • Preliminary Review of System

  • Identifying Key Performance Indicators

  • Preparing Tentative Audit Program

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Operational Audit

  • Reviewing Operating Policies Documentation, Confirming Procedures.

  • Observing Operating Functions Activities

  • Examining Financial Operating Plans and Reports

  • Testing Accuracy of Operating Information

  • Testing Controls

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Advanced Project Auditing of Construction, Maintenance EPC Contracts

  • Pre-Contract Award

  • Post Contract Award

  • Construction Plan

  • Close Out Hand Over to Operation

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EPC Contracts vs. Other Types of Contracts

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Advanced Issues

  • Validating the Analysis Process

  • Validating Key Performance Indicators

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Auditing

  • Progress Monitoring

  • Progress Reporting

  • Progress Measurement

  • Scheduling

  • Progress Payment

  • Cost Control

  • QA/QC/Quality Audits

  • Change Orders

  • Value Engineering

  • Contractual Issues Handling

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Audit Control Procedures for:-

  • Third Party Audits

    • Inspections

    • Certifications

  • Evaluation of Findings

  • Making and Selling Audit Recommendations

  • Change Management.

  • Understanding and Managing Resistance to Improvement Recommendations.

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Case Studies

Program Outcomes and Take-Away/s

Euro Training is in the business of  providing practical useful training programs. Programs that

  1. Help the participant implement improvements in his organization.
  2. Help the participant gain Multi-discipline understanding of the issues so that he can incorporate the needs and expectations of all his stakeholders/ customers in his improvement proposals and actions.
  3. Help build a knowledge framework in which job related experience can be caught and remembered as his experience.

Typical participant will take away a personalized action plan for himself, his business unit or his organization on how to apply the program contents to improve performance. The action plan may have two components:

  1. A Personal Action Plan
  2. A Business Unit/Organizational Action Plan

Benefits to Organization

Sending participant/s to this program will benefit the organization in the following ways

  1. Quickly makes the participants competent, effective and productive on his job. Useful especially for
    1. Training New employees
    2. Competency Building in Existing Employees Transferred to a New Assignment
    3. Training Prior to a New Project or Initiative Planned in the Organization
  2. Create Competency in the employee to perform his job well. including in relation to
    1. Relevant Technical Knowledge, Skills and Competencies
    2. Organizations' Strategic Objectives
    3. Needs and Expectations of the Stakeholders/ Customers (internal & external)
    4. Good Management Practices
    5. Identifying opportunities to Exceed Stakeholder/ Customer Expectations
  3. Create a pool of trained manpower who can cost-effectively disseminate the knowledge to large number of employees inside the organization. This is made possible by Euro Training's unique easy to understand and use methodology based on Checklist & Quality Assurance Approaches.
  4. Euro Training Instructors often act as mentors for your trained employees. A most effective way to ensure effective competency development and application by your motivated staff. We do have consultants available across Americas, Europe, Asia and Africa (Please inquire about our post program mentoring plans)

Participant Individual Career Benefits

  1. You gain a multi-discipline understanding of the issues. Meaning when you make proposals and decisions on your related job you will keep in mind the needs and expectations of ALL the stakeholders/ customers (internal & external)
  2. The action plan you take away will help you make a difference in your business unit or organization. This difference when added to your resume will make you a prime candidate for career advancement in your own organization or in your next job/s.
  3. Understanding and acting with understanding of the Needs and Expectations of your stakeholders/ customers is known to  to enhance Job Satisfaction and reduce Monday Morning Blues.
  4. As one of your stakeholders/ customers is Executive Management, therefore the program ensures you will know the Strategic Imperatives that Drive the Organization's Efforts in your relevant job area. In the process enabling you to make a leadership contribution.

This Program is Intended for…

Those new to the field take away a good multi-discipline understanding of the issues involved in the program works. It helps them become productive quickly and builds in them a knowledge framework that will help identify, understand, classify and remember on the job experiences in his memory.

More experiences participants take-away an individualized action plan as mentioned elsewhere in this technical sheet.

Implementation Teams: This program can be used to train implementation teams where...

  1. a new project or initiative being started in your organization

  2. a new strategic focus is being initiated

  3. just prior to a Consultant being hired to advise the organization.

Each participant will take away a memorable and potentially life changing experience from the program.

No limitations are being placed on who can attend. If you are interested in the Program Outcomes and Takeaways, or, feel you can benefit from the Organizational and Personal Benefits mentioned above - You are Invited to Register for this Program. Program Instructors have the knowledge, experience and access to resources required to customize the program to the specific job related needs of each program group.

Senior Middle Level Audit, Management and Technical Professionals.

All Project Professionals working in Managerial or Senior Supervisor Level. Including Project Managers, Auditors, Administrators, Analysts, Cost Engineers, Planners, Quality Assurance, ISO-9000 Team Members… Participants will be Engineers, MBA’s and Graduates.

Language of  Instruction

Unless otherwise stated the program instruction is in Standard Day-to-Day English. Participants can request the instructor to provide a program vocabulary which will ensure they have no problem understanding the content.

Other language versions are being developed by our consultants and regional partners including program in French, German, Spanish and Arabic. Please do contact us for your specific language needs.

Registration Recommendations

Team Nominations: Since the program aims to ensure the participants have his individualized improvement plan at the end of the program, and foreseeing the effort involved, anticipating resistance and implementation requirements it is recommended that the organization nominate at least two participants together (three will be more desirable to allow for attrition) for this program.

It is anticipated that these 2 or more participants will work together as a team or provide mutual support in order to implement the action plan.

Single nominations will also be accepted for the program. Single nominations are typically used  to:-

  1. Develop personnel skills in Critical Skills and Methodologies covered in this program.

  2. Audit this program for deciding its content and methodology's effectiveness in meeting your organizational needs

  3. Train individuals for Leadership Roles in Business unit or department. Here this program will help the participant coach and lead his team in these Critical Skills and Methodologies. (Program does not typically cover coaching skills but provides the related technical  understanding in an easy to communicate manner. )

  • Instructor For Program

    Program Instructor will be one of our Top Project with over 20 years International experience on Projects - Management, Administration, Auditing, Claims and Planning…

    For Latest Program Schedule Email:

         pa204@EuroTraining.com

     

    REGISTRATION INFORMATION  

    1. Please complete the Registration Form (Available at http://www.eurotraining.com/etl-reg.html) and FAX to UK +44 207 6811444 or Email to: euro@eurotraining.com
    2. Fee is USD $8900 per participant includes Course Materials, Certificate, Refreshments and Lunch. (An additional Service Fee of 10% is Charged at Certain Locations including London, Paris and Kuala Lumpur)
    3. Accommodation is not included in Program fee. Special rates will be available at venue hotel for the participants.
    4. Program Fee information is available by Emailing:  fees@eurotraining.com. Fee is payable by Bank Transfer or Bank Draft in favor of the local representative office.
    5. Early Registration & Payment discount is 10% - if registration and fee payment is made at least 45 days before start of the program.
    6. Fee includes Course Materials, Certificate/s, Refreshments and Lunch. Program Timings are 8:30 AM to 2:30 PM but on some days (to be announced by instructor/s) you may be asked to attend from 3:00 PM to 7:30 PM. For First Day Program Timings see your Joining Instructions.

    Operational Project Performance Evaluation Audit PA-204

    Contact: Mr Harry Miller, General Manager

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    UAE Dubai Fax +971 84 481032

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    Email: euro@eurotraining.com  or   euro@eurotraining.com

    Registration Form available at http://www.eurotraining.com/etl-regn.html

     

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