Project Management Process
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Sydney Water
Sydney Water’s capital projects focus on the system requirements of the service it has to deliver. The process steps to manage these projects are:-
- Create the concept
- An option study is performed
- Often assisted by external experts
- Option might include up to Design, Build, Operate and Maintain
- Estimation of returns from each option
- Selection of agreed option
- Tendering to the open market
- Award to a party
- Manage implementation
Bluescope Steel
Bluescope Steel has a strong capital project process with projects up to $10M being able to be approved locally and projects of $50M go to the board. For larger projects a process called MTEC (maintenance, training, equipment & commissioning) manages structured operational and maintenance input into project from an early stage. See the MTEC time line and process flow diagram on the following page. They also have check points at each process stage with a sign-off required for each. This can also be seen in the OneSteel/ Worley Parsons process below.
OneSteel WorleyParsons
OneSteel/ WorleyParsons have a 5 Step Capital Project Process for management of the full project life cycle. This process is founded on achieving asset reliability and business success. See their time line and process flow diagram on the following +1 page. They have found that having the detail and discipline to set a project scope correctly up front reduces the problems and improves the project success dramatically. The formalised check points enable a project to be stopped even if a significant amount of planning work has been carried out (projects don’t take on a life of their own).
Snowy Hydro
Snowy Hydro’s process to manage new capital asset projects includes:-
- Creating a URS (User Requirement Specification. Also called CRS – Customer Requirement Specification)
- Options, Proposals and Evaluation
- Approval
- Detailed Design
- Selection of Final Design and Management Approach
- Implementation
Hunter Water
Hunter Water tries to get Operations and Maintenance input into projects at the concept stage. As most of their capital projects are upgrades to existing systems they have people with significant experience with these systems. Their process tries to get people with hands on experience with the equipment involved at the detailed design stage.
