Advance Planning & Programming
"First plan, then produce". A clear mandate ensures project continuity and integrity through management shifts or other changes over the course of the total effort.
ORION provides a comprehensive analysis of the organization's physical and operational needs, which combine into a statement of the requirement and project logic. The master plan ensures that acquisition, infrastructure, capacity and building design(s) all provide the organization with the means and ability to roll out the plan in response to immediate requirements and future needs. The statement of requirement and project logic are divided into task elements for which schedules and cost estimates are prepared. The approach provides a basis against which feasibility is determined and budgets set. The process also provides a technical benchmark for project inception and is applicable whether the project is a renovation of an existing facility or new construction.
OPM forces priorities to be set throughout your organization and requires these priorities to be related to strategic criteria. While most project management processes and tools prove effective on single projects, the real benefit is realized on an organizational level. To ensure accountability and measurement to quality, programming elements incorporated into this methodology adopt a phased approach referred to as Gates.
ORION provides a comprehensive analysis of the organization's physical and operational needs, which combine into a statement of the requirement and project logic. The master plan ensures that acquisition, infrastructure, capacity and building design(s) all provide the organization with the means and ability to roll out the plan in response to immediate requirements and future needs. The statement of requirement and project logic are divided into task elements for which schedules and cost estimates are prepared. The approach provides a basis against which feasibility is determined and budgets set. The process also provides a technical benchmark for project inception and is applicable whether the project is a renovation of an existing facility or new construction.
OPM forces priorities to be set throughout your organization and requires these priorities to be related to strategic criteria. While most project management processes and tools prove effective on single projects, the real benefit is realized on an organizational level. To ensure accountability and measurement to quality, programming elements incorporated into this methodology adopt a phased approach referred to as Gates.
Gate Control Process
The differentiating factor integral to the ORION approach is the introduction of the Gate Control Process (GCP).
Gate milestones are established and any proposed changes are reviewed for impact at the program level and on the master schedule. This process allows senior personnel to see the impact that individual projects and sub-projects have on each other throughout the life cycle of the Program, ensuring challenges are identified immediately.
The process imposes stringent checks and balances throughout the phased delivery of the infrastructure and the business relationship evolution. By establishing, authorizing and communicating the key strategic milestones, technical and administrative benchmarks are cast and require signed authorization prior to advancement through the next gate/phase.
This structured, phased control philosophy ensures adherence to strategic imperatives, time lines, and ensures that objectives and the goals of all parties are synchronized throughout the execution of the business relationship. Adherence to GCP and the use of OPM tools and processes, restrict change management to strategic imperatives defined and accepted as the master plan.
The Gate milestones are characterized as:
The differentiating factor integral to the ORION approach is the introduction of the Gate Control Process (GCP).
Gate milestones are established and any proposed changes are reviewed for impact at the program level and on the master schedule. This process allows senior personnel to see the impact that individual projects and sub-projects have on each other throughout the life cycle of the Program, ensuring challenges are identified immediately.
The process imposes stringent checks and balances throughout the phased delivery of the infrastructure and the business relationship evolution. By establishing, authorizing and communicating the key strategic milestones, technical and administrative benchmarks are cast and require signed authorization prior to advancement through the next gate/phase.
This structured, phased control philosophy ensures adherence to strategic imperatives, time lines, and ensures that objectives and the goals of all parties are synchronized throughout the execution of the business relationship. Adherence to GCP and the use of OPM tools and processes, restrict change management to strategic imperatives defined and accepted as the master plan.
The Gate milestones are characterized as:
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Statement of the Requirement : Consolidates the analyses of facts, goals, needs and concepts. This is considered the vision or master plan.
Statement of Design : The development of engineered designs and their acceptance/authorization. Implementation : Incorporates all tasks associated with the execution of the delivery of the infrastructure and/or its sub projects, concluding with system(s) commissioning. Client Cutover : Encompasses the systematic cutover of infrastructures, processes and personnel. Stakeholder Review and Deficiencies Complete : A post occupancy review including all stakeholders, identification of deficiencies, deficiencies complete, management system integrity. |
The utilization of the Gate Control Process provides the ability to manage risk through each gate, and give your extended teams the mechanisms to monitor, control and authorize investments and commitments. Adherence to the Gate Control Process and the use of OPM tools and processes, restrict change management to strategic imperatives defined and accepted as the master plan. Consequently, quality assurance is an integral component of the process.