FAQ: Determining the Level of Risk Assessment for a Project
Determining the level of project risk assessment requires an understanding of the project complexity as well as the characteristics of each level. Applying the appropriate risk assessment ensures you balance the level of effort with the level of detail required for...FAQ: When should Project Risk be Assessed?
When developing a project risk management process, project complexity is the main consideration in determining when to assess project risk. Regardless of the size or complexity of the project, it’s important to identify risks as early as possible. Early...
Facilitating Capital Project Workshops: Leveraging Diversity in Project Teams
In the construction industry, project teams are incredibly diverse and include a wide range of project stakeholders. These stakeholders represent a variety of knowledge areas with different levels of expertise. Apart from this cognitive and epistemic diversity,...How the Construction Readiness Assessment Fits with Other Project Assurance Practices
One of the most common questions we’re asked about the Construction Readiness Assessment is how it fits with other CII practices such as the Project Definition Rating Index (PDRI) and Advanced Work Packaging (AWP). It’s encouraging to see so many organizations...Collaborative Decision Making – Facilitating Productive Project Workshops
How frequently do you leave a collaborative workshop or meeting feeling frustrated that nothing was really accomplished? There may have been a lot of great discussions, but people kept going off on tangents. Maybe too many ideas were proposed, and it was impossible...
Guidelines for Collaborative Hybrid Meetings
As businesses transition back to in-office work, a shift to hybrid meetings is underway, where some people attend in person and others attend virtually. For larger and more complex facilitated workshops that require strong participant engagement and collaboration such...Key Facilitation Techniques for Leading Capital Project Workshops
A common misconception around strong facilitators is that they were born with the skills necessary to facilitate productive workshops. The ability to guide a group to reach a conclusion is ultimately achieved through the understanding and practice of core facilitation...