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Program
Management
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Program management or programme management is the process of managing several related projects, often with the intention of improving an organization's performance. In practice and in its aims it is often closely related to systems engineering, industrial engineering, change management, and business transformation.
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We have two different views of how programs differ from projects. From one perspective, projects deliver outputs, discrete parcels or "chunks" of change; programs create outcomes. From that view, a project might deliver a new factory, hospital or IT system. By combining these projects with other deliverables and changes, their programs might deliver increased income from a new product, shorter waiting lists at the hospital or reduced operating costs due to improved technology. The other perspective is that a program is nothing more than either a large project or a set (or portfolio) of projects. From this second perspective, the point of having a program is to exploit economies of scale and to reduce coordination costs and risks. The project manager's job is to ensure that their project succeeds. The program manager, on the other hand, is concerned with the aggregate outcome(s) or end-state result(s) of the collection of projects in a particular program.
Project
Management
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Project management is our normal discipline of initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and closing the work of a team to achieve specific goals and meet specific success criteria. A project is a temporary endeavor designed to produce a unique product, service or result with a defined beginning and end (usually time-constrained, and often constrained by funding or deliverables) undertaken to meet unique goals and objectives, typically to bring about beneficial change or added value. The temporary nature of projects stands in contrast with business as usual (or operations), which are repetitive, permanent, or semi-permanent functional activities to produce products or services.
Design/Build
Design-build is a method of project delivery in which one entity, which is the design-build team, works under a single contract (usually a CMAR contract style) with the project owner to provide design and construction services. One entity, one contract, one unified flow of work from initial concept through completion, thereby re-integrating the roles of designer and constructor. Design-build is an alternative to traditional design-bid-build project delivery method, and is sometimes described as the contemporary version of the much older, traditional “Master Builder” role. Under the design-bid-build approach, design and construction services are split into separate entities, separate contracts, separate work. Across the country and around the world, design-build successfully delivers both horizontal and vertical construction projects with superior results, no matter what the project type.
Streamlining project delivery through a single contract between the owner and the design-build team transforms the relationship between designers and builders into an alliance, which fosters collaboration and teamwork. United from the outset of every project, an integrated team readily works to successfully complete a project faster, more cost effectively and with fewer change orders. Success of the Design/Build methodology is normally seen in Lower Unit Costs, Faster Construction (and Delivery) Speed, and slower cost and schedule growth.
Construction
Management
Construction Management is the planning, coordinating, and building of a project from conception to completion. This specialization is intended for Construction industry professionals, engineers, and architects looking to advance their careers. The purpose of CM is to control a project's safety, time, cost and quality. CM is compatible with all project delivery systems, including design-bid-build, design-build, CM At-Risk and Public Private Partnerships. Every construction project features some amount of CM. However, professional construction managers, or CMs, are typically reserved for lengthy, large-scale, high budget undertakings (commercial real estate, transportation infrastructure, industrial facilities, military infrastructure, etc...), called capital projects. No matter the setting, a CM's responsibility is to the owner, and to a successful project.
Project
Shaping
Project shaping is defined as the up-front establishment of external project conditions, platforms, and environments. It is generally regarded by experts who study project performance to be the principal determiner of the success or failure of large, complex, high-profile projects (and it is the overall general category above the industry typical FEL). It is also the most ill-defined part of large project planning and management. Devoting adequate effort and resources to up-front project shaping should be considered the key to dramatically reducing the risk of projects ending up with negative outcomes such as no results; not completed; bogged down; coalition disintegrated; planned outcomes not achieved; or catastrophic cost overruns. Within large and complex projects (mega-projects, generally worth a minimum of $1 BUSD), the well known acronym of FEL (front end loading) is part of project shaping, just as is traditional Master Planning. As found within the Project Shaping of such a large project, the FEL is usually consisting of feasibility, concept master planning, detailed master planning, transaction advisory, and FEED (Front End Engineering Design). “Project Shaping’ proceeds to “Project Anchoring”, which is achieved at the client’s or Consortia’s approval of the FID (Financial Investment Decision) which is normally conducted at the end of FEED.
Mega-Project Transaction Advisory (TA)
Within this narrow sub-market, a multi-disciplined team advises clients on financial, procurement, strategic and public-private partnerships (PPP) issues for large-scale infrastructure projects and programs often times to develop the Business Case and the Detailed Developer’s Strategic Plan for such large projects. They support from the earliest stages of analysis, from project evaluation to procurement, financial close, construction and operations (for such projects this service is usually designed to be somewhat concurrent with the detailed master planning (DMP), such that the TA can complete its work and respective deliverables JUST AFTER the completion of the DMP). We can assist our clients in devising and comparing financial plans and delivery approaches for projects that involve public, federal or private financing, project revenues and/or grants, and provide support to our clients in their implementation of those plans.
Project
Controls
Project controls are the data gathering, management and analytical processes used to predict, understand and constructively influence the time and cost outcomes of a project or program; through the communication of information in formats that assist effective management and decision making.
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One of the important contemporary discussions for Project Controls, is the ability to have access to a good, website based, cradle to grave e-collaboration and PM tools software, which allows the field based information as capture within project controls, and contribute to the overall MoC process as inferred to below under Cost Management.
Cost
Management
Cost Management
a. Cost Management starts with a project estimate, which can require cost engineering. Cost engineering has recently had an increased visibility. With the age of austerity, the costs of projects, systems and services have come more into focus. Cost engineers typically have technical background; they are not accountants. For cost engineers, their focus is not watts, newtons, volts, amps or kilograms, but dollars, euros and pounds.
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They have a number of purposes to their work; cost predictions are not the end in itself. It is always necessary to consider the answer to the question, “What is the requirement?”
Potential applications of cost engineering include, but not limited to:
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· Financial analysis (for example affordability, budgeting)
· Economic analysis (for example options analysis)
· Cost benefit analysis
· Business case analysis (for example due diligence of capital expenditure)
· Project management and project control (for example setting EVM baseline)
· Design and performance trade-off Decisions (for example analysis of alternative)
· Acquisition analysis (for example technology insertion)
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It is not commonly appreciated that there are a number of different types of cost prediction which can be deployed which are suitable to different applications:
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· Rough Order of Magnitude (ROM) cost
· Independent Cost Estimate (ICE)
· Whole life cost (WLC) or Life Cycle Cost Estimate (LCCE)
· Budgetary cost estimate
· Commercially committing proposal estimate
· Discounted cash flow and net present value (NPV)
· Parametric top down forecast
· Should cost / Would cost / Could cost
· Operating & support cost or through life cost (TLC)
· Activity-based costing (ABC)
To achieve these cost predictions a cost engineer needs a host of competencies as shown in red line on the tube map. It takes experience, knowledge and understanding to produce an estimate that is justified and credible.
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It takes science, math and art to communicate an estimate that will withstand scrutiny!
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b. The other half of Cost Management deals essentially with MoC (Management of Change) procedures, which basically tracks potential action items, issues, and risks from the front end of the project through to the end, such that through the use of a rather typical two-step process, both upper management and the client can have full transparency into the trending of the project costs.
ABOUT
Vanguard Projects originates, develops or delivers projects.
We provide project lifecycle-wide experience and expertise in engineering, procurement, the supply chain and construction, and offers a wide range of both holistic and singular consulting and advisory services.
Our services "can" cover the full lifecycyle, from creating new assets to sustaining and enhancing operating assets, in the hydrocarbons, mineral, metals, chemicals and infrastructure sectors, or we can focus narrowly and provide a singular discipline's experience just for tuning and improving efficiency.
Our expertise, skill-sets, resources and energy are all focused on responding to and meeting the needs of our customers over both the short-term and long term , thereby building our "Brand", while creating value for our shareholders. We do prefer "Holistic " assignments, but excel at all of them.
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WHO WE ARE
Located in Sugar Land, Texas, we are a professional services business, a partner in delivering sustained economic and social progress, creating opportunities for individuals, companies and communities to find and realize their own futures.
Reputation matters, perception counts, and we protect and treasure ours.
We do this with honesty, integrity, professional stamina and transparency of our employees and associates. Relationships we have built within the lending and funding community at-large and the support of our shareholders, earned by delivering earnings growth and a satisfactory return on their investments.
PROJECTS
Convention Center
Phase 1 Completion
Capabilities Statement
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Disclaimer
At Vanguard Projects, LLC, we succeed due to the education, experience, skill-sets, and values embraced by our members and our associates. We reflect here the aggregated total of all projects, regardless of whether these were VP related, or were completed at a time when a managing member or associates were working for others.
CONTACT
Inquiries
For any inquiries, questions or commendations, please call: 571.239.1958 / +234 (1) 0903568 5796 or fill out the following form
USA Postal Address
16107 Kensington Dr, Ste 183
Sugar Land, TX 77479 USA
Mobile: 571.239.1958
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Nigeria Postal Address
Nigeria Office Address
C/O Maroko Bay Suites
20/24 Ozumba Badiwe St
(located next to ProFlex Gym)
Victoria Island, Lagos, Nigeria
Tel: +234 (1) 0 277 4615
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