IPT Workbook 7

Process review

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7.1 Undertake step-by-step critical review of the defined processes stages: workbooks 1-6

7.2 Publish the benefits of all the key learnings for the project and the processes

7.3 Celebrate success

7.4 Determine ongoing life of virtual company

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7.1

Undertake step-by- step critical review of the defined processes stages: workbooks 1-6

Bring together a representative sample of the Integrated Project Team members to review performance at each of the stages:

1. Identify business need

2. Advisory team: develop Strategic Brief and value criteria

3. Core team: create and screen strategic solutions

4. Expand core team and clusters: develop potential solution

5. Integrated Project Team: implementation of agreed solution

6. Project proving

Record the successes so that they can be repeated and identify the learnings so that changes can be made to improve the process in the future.

7.2

Publish the benefits of all the key learnings for the project and the processes

Collaborative working embodies many higher level values, one of which is continuous learning. This approach is about challenge, creativity and innovation throughout the life of the project and a desire to discard old methods that add no value. This remains so at the end of the project, and a feature of Integrated Project Team (IPT) collaborations is the sharing of experiences within the team and with other partners and practitioners, who may be embarking on a new IPT enterprise.

The IPT is a fluid concept. It needs to change and develop, just as the needs it seeks to deliver change and develop. Its practitioners believe that its benefit will not be fully realised until it is available for all to use at will. If others decide that they wish to adopt these principles, please be sure that all parties are ready for the challenges this will bring and that they pulbish their experiences so that all may share in the learning.

Feedback report(s) in standard industry format (being developed under accelerating change sponsorship)

The experiences of the Project Team could be published as a CBP case study via the website

	The adoption of continuous improvement ensures that learning is transferred from one project to the next. The CBP website contains numerous references to guidance relating to continuous improvement
	The BSRIA Specialist Procurement toolkit (tool B1) offers ideas in achieving systematic continuous improvement and benchmarking.

7.3

Celebrate success

Finding opportunities to celebrate success helps team members to see that being part of this process enables them to deliver superior performance and additional value, meeting needs in a way that previous projects were unable to do. Success should therefore be celebrated externally, as well as internally, so that more people are able to understand this process and its values- and gain from its benefits.

This can mean promoting individuals and teams who are delivering within these principles and methodologies, as well as going to industry and talking about the success of a project and of collaboration in general. There are few more powerful drivers for change than success, either because people want to be associated with it, or want to know why it was achieved, where other approaches failed to do so.

7.4

Determine ongoing life of IPT

The end of the project does not have to be the end of the collaboration or the integrated project team. Partners should actively discuss the opportunities for further collaboration either with part or all of the whole team and identify areas of opportunity/improvement for future activity.