Implementing the Programme
- Project authorisation
- Authorising work without a contract or order
- Preliminary organisation of the project
- Correspondence and other projects
- Project engineering standards and procedures
- Physical preparation and organisation
- Getting work started
- Issuing detailed planning and work instructions
Managing Progress
- Closed loop control system
- Routine collection of progress data
- Non-routine approach to progressing
- Managing subcontractors and agency employees
- Routine priority allocation in manufacturing projects
- Bad news
- Corrective measures
- Immediate action orders
- Haste versus good management
- Construction site organisation and management
- Progress meetings
- Project reports
Changes and Production Permits
- Classification of changes
- Authorisation arrangements
- General administration
- Estimating design modification costs
- Forms and procedures
- Modifying drawings
- Emergency modifications
Cost Management – Principles
- Objectives of project cost management
- Cost management factors
- Total cost approach
- Budgets
- Cost collection methods
- Audits
- Comparing actual and planned costs
Cost Management – Evaluation, Prediction and Reporting
- Milestone analysis
- Earned value analysis
- Earned value analysis prediction reliability and implications
- Evaluating cost performance for materials and bought out equipment
- Effect of modifications on earned value analysis
- Project ledger concept
- Predicting profitability
- Post mortem
Final Project Definition and Closure
- Formal project closure
- Final project cost records
- Disposal of surplus material stocks
- Final project definition
- As-built condition
- Managing files and archives
Example Candidate Response Booklet
Example Candidate Response (ECR) Booklets are a source of crucial information for Centres and Candidates as they use real candidate responses. We ask Senior Examiners to comment on five or more responses in terms of why the mark was awarded with commentary about how to improve the answer (if necessary).
