Strategic Project Management for Infrastructure Projects

Strategic Project Management for Infrastructure Projects

📅 Duration: 5 Days
👷 Target Audience: Senior Engineers, Project Managers, and Decision-Makers in Public Construction
🎯 Skill Level: Advanced

📌 Course Objectives:

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
✔ Develop strategic planning skills for managing large-scale infrastructure projects.
✔ Align projects with national policies, sustainability goals, and economic strategies.
✔ Optimize resource allocation, budgeting, and risk management in public projects.
✔ Implement agile, hybrid, and adaptive project management methodologies.
✔ Utilize data-driven decision-making tools and AI for project optimization.
✔ Improve stakeholder coordination and cross-sector collaboration.
✔ Enhance project governance, leadership, and performance evaluation.

📌 Course Outline:

🟢 Day 1: Foundations of Strategic Project Management

🔹 Overview of infrastructure project lifecycles and public sector governance.
🔹 Key success factors for strategic project execution.
🔹 Frameworks for aligning projects with economic and national development plans.
🔹 Case Study: Assessing the strategic alignment of a major infrastructure project.

🟢 Day 2: Portfolio and Program Management in Infrastructure

🔹 Difference between project, program, and portfolio management.
🔹 Project prioritization techniques and multi-project coordination.
🔹 Performance measurement using Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
🔹 Digital project portfolio management tools (e.g., Primavera P6, MS Project, BIM 360).
🔹 Case Study: Optimizing a government-funded infrastructure portfolio.

🟢 Day 3: Decision-Making and Risk-Based Planning

🔹 Decision-making under uncertainty in large-scale projects.
🔹 Advanced risk analysis methods: Monte Carlo simulations, sensitivity analysis.
🔹 Strategies for resilient infrastructure development and disaster mitigation.
🔹 Case Study: Risk-adjusted planning for a transportation megaproject.

🟢 Day 4: Leadership, Stakeholder Engagement & Change Management

🔹 Leadership strategies for project managers in public infrastructure.
🔹 Change management frameworks for large-scale infrastructure projects.
🔹 Stakeholder engagement techniques for public and private sector coordination.
🔹 Ethical considerations in public project management.
🔹 Case Study: Managing change in a multi-stakeholder infrastructure project.

🟢 Day 5: Case Study & Real-World Application

🔹 Hands-on case study: Developing a strategic execution plan for a real-world infrastructure project.
🔹 Group discussion: Challenges in implementing strategic project management.
🔹 Presentation of project execution strategies and governance models.
🔹 Course assessment and feedback session.

🛠 Tools & Software Used:

✅ Primavera P6 / Microsoft Project – For project scheduling and portfolio management.
✅ Power BI / Tableau – For project performance analytics and dashboards.
✅ Monte Carlo Simulation Software – For risk-based decision-making.
✅ Building Information Modeling (BIM 360) – For integrated infrastructure planning.