Valency Blog
Welcome to Valency’s blog, where we provide expert insights on enhancing capital project performance. Our posts cover key topics such as project risk management, construction readiness, and facilitation techniques to support your investment strategies and improve project outcomes. Stay informed with our professional advice and practical tips.
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- Facilitation
- Project Definition Rating Index
- Construction Readiness
- Commissioning & Operational Readiness
How the Construction Readiness Assessment Benefits your Role in the Project
The Construction Readiness Assessment is a game changer in guiding project teams to ensuring a productive start to construction. The challenge is getting the project team to a full day workshop during such a critical time in the project. To promote participation in...
Productive Risk Workshops for Predictable Project Outcomes
Project Risk Management has become a standard practice for capital projects in many organizations, but one question to consider is: "In our organization, has project risk management become a 'checklist item' rather than a value adding practice?" When you consider the...
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...
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,...
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...
How the Project Definition Rating Index (PDRI) Benefits your Role in the Project
Everyone benefits from a well-defined project, and it takes many people to do a project well. In this post, I will explain how you benefit from participating in a PDRI session based on your role within the project/organization. It is important to understand how each...
Evolution of the Project Definition Rating Index (PDRI) for Scope Definition in Capital Construction Projects
With its inception almost 25 years ago, the Project Definition Rating Index, better known as PDRI, has continued to evolve, becoming an industry-standard practice adopted by organizations worldwide. The results are critical in the determination of whether a project is...
Barriers to Achieving a Well-Defined Scope in Construction
Projects, by their nature, are dynamic – critical issues and decisions arise throughout a project’s lifecycle. However, it is much easier to influence a project’s outcome during front end planning when expenditure is relatively low, than it is to affect the outcome...
How the Construction Readiness Assessment Benefits your Role in the Project
The Construction Readiness Assessment is a game changer in guiding project teams to ensuring a productive start to construction. The challenge is getting the project team to a full day workshop during such a critical time in the project. To promote participation in...
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 working...
How the Construction Readiness Assessment Differs from a Checklist
The Construction Readiness Assessment is often mistaken for an in-house construction readiness checklist. Several organizations implementing the Construction Readiness Assessment are making the transition as part of a larger initiative to standardize processes and...
How to Apply the Commissioning and Operational Readiness Assessment to Capital Projects Executed During Shutdown / Turnarounds
One of the most common questions we’ve been asked in discussions about the Commissioning & Operational Readiness Assessment is: “How do I improve schedule certainty around Commissioning & Operational Readiness for capital projects where a large portion of the...
- All Posts
- Facilitation
- Project Definition Rating Index
- Construction Readiness
- Commissioning & Operational Readiness
How the Construction Readiness Assessment Benefits your Role in the Project
The Construction Readiness Assessment is a game changer in guiding project teams to ensuring a productive start to construction. The challenge is getting the project team to a full day workshop during such a critical time in the project. To promote participation in...
Productive Risk Workshops for Predictable Project Outcomes
Project Risk Management has become a standard practice for capital projects in many organizations, but one question to consider is: "In our organization, has project risk management become a 'checklist item' rather than a value adding practice?" When you consider the...
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...
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,...
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...
How the Project Definition Rating Index (PDRI) Benefits your Role in the Project
Everyone benefits from a well-defined project, and it takes many people to do a project well. In this post, I will explain how you benefit from participating in a PDRI session based on your role within the project/organization. It is important to understand how each...
Evolution of the Project Definition Rating Index (PDRI) for Scope Definition in Capital Construction Projects
With its inception almost 25 years ago, the Project Definition Rating Index, better known as PDRI, has continued to evolve, becoming an industry-standard practice adopted by organizations worldwide. The results are critical in the determination of whether a project is...
Barriers to Achieving a Well-Defined Scope in Construction
Projects, by their nature, are dynamic – critical issues and decisions arise throughout a project’s lifecycle. However, it is much easier to influence a project’s outcome during front end planning when expenditure is relatively low, than it is to affect the outcome...
How the Construction Readiness Assessment Benefits your Role in the Project
The Construction Readiness Assessment is a game changer in guiding project teams to ensuring a productive start to construction. The challenge is getting the project team to a full day workshop during such a critical time in the project. To promote participation in...
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 working...
How the Construction Readiness Assessment Differs from a Checklist
The Construction Readiness Assessment is often mistaken for an in-house construction readiness checklist. Several organizations implementing the Construction Readiness Assessment are making the transition as part of a larger initiative to standardize processes and...
How to Apply the Commissioning and Operational Readiness Assessment to Capital Projects Executed During Shutdown / Turnarounds
One of the most common questions we’ve been asked in discussions about the Commissioning & Operational Readiness Assessment is: “How do I improve schedule certainty around Commissioning & Operational Readiness for capital projects where a large portion of the...