Valency Blog | Project Assurance Best Practices

A Transformative Leap Forward in Capital Project Assurance

4 June, 2025

By Sandra MacGillivray

Integrating Capital Project Commissioning into Turnarounds

30 May, 2025

By Sandra MacGillivray

Aligning Projects with Purpose – Insights by Raul Fuentes

22 May, 2025

By Maida Majeed

Valerie Weaver on the Confidence to Lead, and the Wisdom to Listen

21 April, 2025

By Maida Majeed

Choose the Right Project—and Do It Right”: A Conversation with Tim Podesta

3 April, 2025

By Maida Majeed

Front End Planning – Is it Worth the Time and Expense?

4 March, 2025

By Sandra MacGillivray

How to Write Clear and Actionable PDRI Summary Reports

8 January, 2025

By Eve Koch Nichol

Ensuring Transition & Schedule Certainty in Capital Projects: A Guide to Operational Readiness

25 November, 2024

By Maida Majeed

Fostering Psychological Safety: How to Enhance Project Assurance Assessments

28 October, 2024

By Eve Koch Nichol

Women in Capital Projects: Women’s History Month Exclusive

1 October, 2024

By Maida Majeed

How Unreasonable Hospitality Transforms Client Relationships in Project Assurance

28 August, 2024

By Eve Koch Nichol

CII’s Transformative Collaboration Between Industry & Academia

13 August, 2024

By Eve Koch Nichol

Applying Commissioning and Operational Readiness to Capital Projects Executed During Shutdown / Turnarounds

16 October, 2023

By Eve Koch Nichol

How the Construction Readiness Assessment Benefits your Role in the Project

12 September, 2023

By Eve Koch Nichol

Productive Risk Workshops for Predictable Project Outcomes

10 April, 2023

By Sandra MacGillivray

FAQ: Determining the Level of Risk Assessment for a Project

4 April, 2023

By Sandra MacGillivray

FAQ: When should Project Risk be Assessed?

3 April, 2023

By Sandra MacGillivray

Facilitating Capital Project Workshops: Leveraging Diversity in Project Teams

20 March, 2023

By Eve Koch Nichol

How the Construction Readiness Assessment Fits with Other Project Assurance Practices

19 May, 2022

By Sandra MacGillivray

Collaborative Decision Making – Facilitating Productive Project Workshops

10 May, 2022

By Sandra MacGillivray

Guidelines for Collaborative Hybrid Meetings

29 March, 2022

By Sandra MacGillivray

Key Facilitation Techniques for Leading Capital Project Workshops

10 March, 2022

By Sandra MacGillivray

Facilitation Techniques for Capital Project Workshops – Using Polls

2 February, 2022

By Sandra MacGillivray

How the Project Definition Rating Index (PDRI) Benefits your Role in the Project

21 January, 2022

By Sandra MacGillivray

Evolution of the Project Definition Rating Index (PDRI) for Scope Definition in Capital Construction Projects

29 September, 2021

By Sandra MacGillivray

Barriers to Achieving a Well-Defined Scope in Construction

2 June, 2021

By Sandra MacGillivray

How the Construction Readiness Assessment Differs from a Checklist

4 March, 2021

By Sandra MacGillivray

Leveraging PDRI Reviews to Address Challenges Posed by COVID-19

28 October, 2020

By Sandra MacGillivray

PDRI MATRS – Taking Front End Planning to the Next Level

18 September, 2020

By Sandra MacGillivray

Measuring Construction Readiness for Project Restarts after Covid-19

28 April, 2020

By Sandra MacGillivray

Tips for Delivering Successful Flash Track Projects

1 April, 2020

By Sandra MacGillivray

Virtual-Friendly Meeting Agendas

30 March, 2020

By Sandra MacGillivray

Monitoring the Chat Window in Virtual Meetings

26 March, 2020

By Nell Van Walsum

Participating in Virtual Meetings: 3 Tips

19 March, 2020

By Sandra MacGillivray

Leading Virtual Meetings: 3 Tips

18 March, 2020

By Sandra MacGillivray

Managing Logistics for Virtual Workshops

17 March, 2020

By Sandra MacGillivray

Facilitating Engaging Virtual Workshops

17 March, 2020

By Sandra MacGillivray

Valency joins the Construction Management Association of America (CMAA) as a Recertification Point Provider

26 February, 2020

By Sandra MacGillivray

A Business Case for the Construction Readiness Assessment

5 February, 2020

By Sandra MacGillivray

Construction Readiness – Importance of Team Alignment & Buy-In When a Project Is Not Ready

12 December, 2018

By Sandra MacGillivray

Construction Readiness – An Essential Process to Boost Construction Performance

13 November, 2018

By Sandra MacGillivray

Getting Introverts to the Table During Risk Identification

3 November, 2018

By Sandra MacGillivray

When a Flash Track Project Is Your Only Option

25 October, 2018

By Sandra MacGillivray

Project Status Reporting: Help! We’re not spending our budget!

9 August, 2017

By Mark Anderson

Capital Project Risk Management for Project Managers [Video]

2 June, 2017

By Mark Anderson

Managing RISK: 5 Steps to Bring you More Value

26 May, 2017

By Nell Van Walsum

We’ve Moved! Check out our new Digs.

7 April, 2017

By Mark Anderson

Let’s put Canada at the forefront of construction excellence!

31 March, 2017

By Mark Anderson

Press release: Canadian Government Awards BCIP Contract to Valency Inc

13 March, 2017

By Mark Anderson

Implementing Change? A roadmap to success [Infographic]

19 January, 2017

By Mark Anderson

What is Project Risk?

23 November, 2016

By Sandra MacGillivray

Protecting against Optimism Bias in Construction Projects

25 October, 2016

By Sandra MacGillivray

Risk Management: You can’t manage a secret

19 October, 2016

By Sandra MacGillivray

Canada: Innovation and Innovators

30 September, 2016

By Mark Anderson

Not Bad for a 2-Hour Meeting!

23 September, 2016

By Mark Anderson

Better Projects through Team Alignment

22 June, 2016

By Sandra MacGillivray

Front End Planning on Renovation and Revamp Projects

13 June, 2016

By Mark Anderson

Al Capone, an LRT and a Corduroy Road

25 April, 2016

By Mark Anderson

PEMAC Event: Aligning O&M teams with Capital Project Objectives

22 April, 2016

By Mark Anderson

PMI PDU Changes as of December 1, 2015

15 March, 2016

By Mark Anderson

Introduction to CII [Infographic]

29 February, 2016

By Mark Anderson

Video: He who Implements Wins!!

5 February, 2016

By Mark Anderson

Valency Approved as Registered Education Provider by PMI

8 December, 2015

By Mark Anderson

Maximizing the benefits of PDRI

3 December, 2015

By Mark Anderson

How to align O&M Teams and Project Teams

3 November, 2015

By Sandra MacGillivray

What is PDRI & how can it help your projects? [Infographic]

16 September, 2015

By Mark Anderson

How to Improve your Small Industrial Projects [Infographic]

14 September, 2015

By Mark Anderson

10 Commandments of Front End Planning

14 August, 2015

By Sandra MacGillivray

Introducing PDRI for Small Industrial Projects

11 August, 2015

By Mark Anderson

Better Front End Planning = Better Projects

23 July, 2015

By Sandra MacGillivray

Borouge trains team in PDRI as key element in achieving project excellence

7 July, 2015

By Sandra MacGillivray

Poor Scope Definition = Cost & Schedule overruns

30 June, 2015

By Sandra MacGillivray

Facilitating Facilitators: How to choose a PDRI Facilitator

29 May, 2015

By Mark Anderson

Valency? Why the Name?

14 May, 2015

By Sandra MacGillivray

How PDRI can be used to classify projects

2 April, 2015

By Mark Anderson

Big Data: Using Analytics to Make Better Project Decisions

13 March, 2015

By Mark Anderson

CMCS launches PDRI course in Dubai, April 22-23, 2015

5 March, 2015

By Sandra MacGillivray

How to go from project zero to project hero…

12 February, 2015

By Mark Anderson

Big Data: Using analytics to improve capital project results

12 January, 2015

By Mark Anderson

Are your Portfolio Managers equipped for success?

23 June, 2014

By Sandra MacGillivray

Six Simple Leadership Rules to Manage Complexity

27 May, 2014

By Sandra MacGillivray

Opening Ourselves to Outside Inputs

18 February, 2014

By Sandra MacGillivray

Is it ever too late in a project to address spare parts issues?

22 August, 2013

By Sandra MacGillivray

Discussions Around a White Board

30 April, 2013

By Sandra MacGillivray