It also helps project managers to make the project plans visible and reposition them as valuable as the technical documents are. This methodology brings the project management role to a central and influential point, such as in projects where technical issues usually monopolize the discussions. A review is an evaluation of the project that assesses the deliverables performed, and is done by peers or co-workers.
Reviews pursue the improvement of the work presented, the early error detection, and the solution of inconsistencies, more than a judgment or acceptance of the work. This is also called peer review, which must be done by people external to the project, either inside or outside the organization.
Audits are more structured than reviews and can be used as proof of aptitude. Depending on the size and importance of the project and the organization processes, there can be one or both evaluations prior to requesting senior management approval. Some projects need a succession of approvals until they reach the level in the organization able to give the final green light. Some others need only one-person signoff to move to the next step.
The entire review-approval processes can take several weeks, or even several months in highly political organizations. This is sometimes seen as a waste of time and can discourage the team. This is one of the methodology's downfalls. The benefits of gates methodology will vary according to the kind and size of the projects, the nature and culture of the organization, and maturity level the organization has achieved in the discipline. Some common points are exposed here.
One of the most important advantages of the gates methodology is to give the decision makers a set of information that has a known degree of uncertainty. Furthermore, the changes in macro-economic variables, as well as in company plans, are part of each stage analysis, reviewing and updating the alignment of the project. Another important benefit of the gates methodology is to reduce the final investment risk. The progressive nature of the development and its validation at the end of each stage ensures that the final deliverable will be aligned with the company's needs as well as with the present market conditions.
The gates methodology also allows the organizations to reach the final investment decision in stages, ensuring that nobody will proceed to use funds and resources on projects that are no longer in the organization's interests. Furthermore, it keeps investment low in early phases, when risk and uncertainty are still high, and only allows more resources when the needed information is verified and the investment decision is confirmed.
The gates methodology reduces time and cost overruns during execution, mostly by reducing change requests and making risk visible and thus, risk management essential by requiring proper accuracy in planning, especially for scope and cost.
Plans, including the schedule, are based on robust and audited information, thus increasing the project's predictability. The gates methodology allows the capitalization of valuable knowledge and experience. And with the documentation completed there is only one step to make it accessible and useful to the organization.
Gates are a source of valuable documentation for other projects, and capitalizing on lessons learned reduces risks and cost in future projects. First and obviously, gates act as a methodological guide, especially useful for non-mature project organizations, drawing a proved successful path to follow, and making explicit the commitment of the organization at each step, helping to keep the commitment visible.
The method acts as a trigger, involving the whole organization, as well as bringing key resources into early phases and avoiding breaks in phase transitions.
Interdisciplinary teams and management stability are conditions considered good practice and keys for success. The methodology speeds up project delivery, facilitating the transfer of the project from sales or engineering to the project execution team, and from the team to operation and support.
It is widely used by industries such as construction, chemical, and utilities. FEL requests a detailed understanding of a project as a whole in order to minimize changes during later phases of project execution, ensuring the investment return ratio. Key components of Front-End Loading for this example are site factors, engineer definition, and project execution plans. They are equally important, but only the last will be covered by the following description.
FEL compresses all the phases prior to the engineering, procurement and construction EPC , and has 3 stages. In the opportunity identification stage, new opportunities are visualized and a first selection is made. This is definitely business territory, and at this stage, generally no project manager is assigned to the opportunity yet.
However, FEL discipline must be closely followed, because the impact of an error at this phase can be catastrophic in the following ones.
The goal of this gate is to validate the business case and point out some alternatives. The outcome of this stage is the conceptual engineering of the selected technological alternative. A project manager is assigned and the technical areas start to become relevant.
The objective of this gate is to select the best technological option and to begin with the engineering. The objective here is to have the basic engineering concluded and the project execution plans done. The authors propose a point of improvement in FEL methodology in this paper. It consists in adding one extra gate in the middle of the FEL2 stage for the validation of the technological selection chosen.
This selection, that is analysed and defined in the first part of the FEL 2 stage, is in most cases a very transcendental definition. It will determine the project strategy, the offsite facilities, the possible suppliers, the project cost, the operational and maintenance costs, and so forth, and has no verification until all the conceptual work is done.
The goal of the FEL pre 2 gate is to avoid changes in future stages, as rework must be performed from here to the end of FEL 2 if the chosen alternative is wrong. Example 2: Gates Methodology in Technological Projects analysed from the perspective of the supplier. In contrast with the case shown in the first example, here project cycle and project phases coincide. This is typically business territory, where the opportunities are detected and where most of the projects are born.
As an early phase, its influence in the success of the project is great while the investment is still low. Focus is on the robustness of the business case that will generate the commercial proposal, and the areas assessed include the span and detail of scope proposed, the practicability of the planned schedule, and the accuracy of the cost estimation. The objective of this gate is to determine if the commercial proposal is consistent, and if it can be translated eventually into a successful project.
The pre-sales team and the project area review and agree with all the non-commercial terms of the offer before presenting it to the senior management.
Once the purchase order arrives, or just before, a detailed planning must be done and subsequently approved. As part of this phase, if it is needed, a more detailed scope statement must be done, agreed upon, and signed by the client. The process involves the project manager, who presents the project goals, the preliminary plans, and the relevant lessons learned to the team.
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Unfortunately for our example, Mark, it was not. First of all, Mark was not totally aware of who was attending his Tollgate, nor was he aware of how they felt about the value of his project. Mark also did not do sufficient preparation for his presentation with his Master Blackbelt.
The stage was set for a potential disaster. And the Tollgate was a disaster. Mark was not aware that one of the senior people in attendance felt threatened by the project that Mark was working on. She immediately attacked his work, and since he had not properly prepared, his responses were poor. Most of the other attendees were cowed by the senior leader, so there was no support from them. He pushed back, and Mark got to live another day. Mark never repeated his slip-ups again.
Most experienced Six Sigma practitioners have figured out how to prevent Tollgates from becoming a negative and unproductive activity. Here are a few hints that will help you avoid some of the common failures in a Tollgate review. Make sure that you understand who will be in attendance and how they feel about your project.
You want to know whether you can expect them to be supportive of your project or if they may attack your work and that of the team. Have all the data and supporting documentation for what you and the team have done in that DMAIC phase. Be prepared for any questions you can imagine might be asked. Your project sponsor should be your biggest ally, so prepare him or her so they are not caught off-guard or blindsided. There is much you can learn from the Tollgate attendees.
Listen to their input and feedback and incorporate it as you feel appropriate. Except for an outlier now and then, the attendees want you and your project to be successful because it will benefit the organization, and possibly themselves. You need to pass the Tollgate for all the phases. If you skip one, you have the unpleasant experience of having gone down a blind alley, and you will have to back up and rework what you have already done. They usually last minutes if the standard agenda is followed.
A tollgate review is a process for objectively evaluating the quality of project work at various stages of the DMAIC process. It provides the opportunity for voices external to the project team to provide input and feedback. Tollgates are a chance for you to review and reflect on the progress of your project.
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