Super Projects


Course Overview


The effective deployment of large-scale capital projects has reached critical importance for the oil & gas industry. Due to the world’s increasing energy needs, continuous infrastructure investments, and perpetually challenging marketplace economics, the incentives for project success have never been greater. Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA) reports the cost of major oil & gas production projects has risen by more than 53% in the last two years alone. Yet with the cost of capital projects soaring, the failure rate has never been more pronounced. According to a recent study by Booz Allen, more than 40% of major oil & gas capital projects are plagued by problems, with less than 50% of industry executives reporting satisfaction with overall capital project performance. This challenge couldn’t have come at a worse time. The talent pool is also drying up, frustrating the ability to successfully staff major projects. According to a recent survey by Ernst & Young in partnership with Rice University, 90% of oil and gas HR executives report the talent shortage has become one of the top business issues their companies face today.

Corpus Optima’s Super Project Series is designed to address these formidable challenges. The aim of this hands-on capability development series is to equip Oil & Gas capital project managers, engineers, contractors, analysts, consultants and project communities with a new philosophical approach and toolset for operating large-scale capital projects in the 21st century. It is based on careful research into the behaviors and methods that actually drive capital project outperformance, turning much of conventional wisdom on its head. It includes the core fundamentals of Superperformance including the Superperformance Formula, 8 Simple Rules, and 10 Habits of Superperforming Management and Leadership. It also includes an in-depth examination of Agile principles and methods. Agile is an exciting new family of project optimization methods which include SCRUM, Feature Driven Development, Lean Methods, and others. SCRUM concepts focus on management and communications, while others concentrate on processes and practices. Agile methods emphasize:

• individuals and interactions instead of procedures and forms,
• collaboration more than contract negotiations,
• responding to change over following a plan.

Agile is an orientation. It requires a culture of intense trust, communication and collaboration. It values the ability to respond to change and new learning, and never forgets the goal is to deliver a product that is useful to the customer.

Corpus Optima’s Super Project Series includes Coaching for Superperformance, an interaction model for unleashing intrinsic motivation and desired action in direct reports, internal and external customers, and others. It also includes the 10 Habits Index, a tool for discovering Management and Leadership Habit Strengths and Critical Gaps, and a method for driving sustainable transformation strategies in desired 10 Habit areas. Corpus Optima’s Super Project Series delivers a balanced set of process management and cultural leadership practices, and a deep investigation of Agile philosophy and methods, all proven to catalyze Superperformance, drive measureable performance improvement, and assure optimization—based on a new scientific basis for understanding and operating projects and organizations.

The concepts taught in the session are based on the bestselling business book Superperformance: New Profound Knowledge for Corporate Leaders, by Dave Guerra, cofounder and managing partner of Corpus Optima, and the soon-to-be-released new monograph, Super Projects, by long-term capital project expert Larry Andrews, and are brought to life in this executive seminar.


What Participants Will Discover 

  • Simple rules for the optimization of any project or project portfolio
  • The Superperformance Formula (Process x Culture =Superperformance)
  • Agile philosophy and methods for increasing adaptability and self-organization
  • A new science of optimization that redefines Management and Leadership
  • New Coaching Skills for Superperformance
  • Simple Rules for the Emergence of Superperformance
  • A Blueprint for Transformation to Superperformance
  • The Superpower of the 10 Habits
  • How to use the 10 Habits to revolutionize organizational performance
  • Why Servant Leadership is Super Leadership


    • After project leaders reframe the world they inhabit, they will act differently. And those actions will produce new, super results. This new knowledge is the key to turning organizations into places where systems surge and people soar.


    What Participants Will Receive

    1. Superperformance: New Profound Knowledge for Corporate Leaders by Dave Guerra so participants can familiarize themselves with the principles presented in the seminar.
    2. Superperformance for Corporate Leader Courseware including all practice fields, instruction sets, tools and job aids used in the seminar.
    3. The 10 Habits Profile to determine Habits Orientation and Strength and provide a baseline from which to undertake desired habit acquisition.
    4. The Coaching for Superperformance Model for application to direct reports, internal and external customers, and others.
    5. All Super Projects materials, tools, and exercises.
    6. All Practice Field Materials used in the seminar.

     

    Agenda

       Day 1: Understanding Superperformance      

      • What is Superperformance?
      • The Superperformance Formula and the Research
      • Superperformance is a New Science of Optimization
      • Superperformance and Oil & Gas
      • The TODCO Miracle: Superperformance in the Offshore Drilling Industry
      • TODCO’s Journey to Best in Class: Case Study
      • World Café: Becoming Best in Class (MIT originated exercise designed to tap the collective intelligence of the group)
      • World Café Exercise and Debrief
      • Coaching for Superperformance: A New Coaching Model for Unleashing Superperformance (A Superperformance-Based Coaching Model emphasizing Desire and Action)
      • Understanding the Model
      • Practicing the Model
      • Planning for Use of the Model in Project Work
      • The 10 Habits and Superperformance Habit Strength Instrument
      • (Management and Leadership Hemispheres of Superperformance, completion of Habit Strength Instrument)
      • The 10 Habits of Superperformance
      • Using The Superperformance Habits Strength Instrument

      Day 2: Super Projects

      • What is Project Management and does it add value?
      • Initiating, Planning, Monitoring, Adapting
      • When is a project “complete”?
      • The “constraint square” 
      • Scoping for Superperformance
      • Project authorization and self-managed teams
      • Understanding and avoiding “teamicide”
      • Communication modes and styles
      • Project administration versus project empowerment
      • Sense and respond
      • Commitment and accountability
      • Simplicity and Lean 
      • Uncertainty and project adaptability
      • Collective intelligence of the project community
      • Agile manifesto
      • Individuals and interactions
      • Customer collaboration
      • The Agile practices
      • Not always fixing things that are broken
      • Incremental / iterative development 
      • The project ecosystem
      • Being quick but not hurrying
      • Stripping away overhead and non-value producing activities
      • Doing “just enough” – maximizing work not done
      • Who will do What by When ( PM = X person times Y task times Z date)
      • MELT your project (Manage Execution and Lead the Team)
      • Linking to business objectives
      • Managing the interfaces
      • “Rolling wave” planning
      • Project Management Office (PMO)

      Day 3 The Management Habits of Superperformance

      • Super Project Charter (Chartering for Superperformance)
      • What is Chartering?
      • Chartering for Process and Culture
      • Airplane Game (Instill Continual Improvement)
      • Model for Improvement
      • PDSA
      • Small Scale Tests of Change
      • Project Management vs Project Leadership
      • Superproject Case Study
      • System of Work & Card Game Exercise (Understanding Systems and Statistical Thinking)
      • Understand Oil & Gas Systems of Work
      • Understanding Statistical Variation in Oil & Gas (HSE, Finance Case Examples) Using
      • Systems and Statistical Thinking

      Day 4: The Leadership Habits of Superperformance

      • Servant Leadership is Super Leadership (How Servant Leadership Drives Intrinsic Motivation)
      • Servant Leadership and Superperformance
      • Am I a Servant Leader? (Servant Leadership Exercise)
      • Talent Show (Understanding Self-Organization and Emergence)
      • Self-Organization and Intrinsic Motivation
      • Creativity and Best in Class
      • Superperformance Habit Strength Instrument
      • Habit Strength Instrument Feedback
      • Individual Habit Strength and Opportunities
      • Group Habit Strength and Opportunities
      • Habit Selection Project
      • Seabiscuit and Superperformance (Storytelling Exercise)

      Adjourn

      Follow-on Webinar Series and Online Support System

          

      • Webinar Schedule and Purpose
      • Class Web 2.0 Social Network & Collaboration

       





       

       

       

       

       

     

     

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