Subject-specific Workshops
Monday, June 13, 12:30pm — 5:00pm
COST: $795
Don’t miss this interactive workshop, available to conference attendees only. Optional and separately bookable. Space is limited, so book early!
WORKSHOP 1: Challenge Planning! Using the 5T Process
Tom Lenahan, Tom Lenahan Ltd.
When shutdown plans and schedules are displayed as finished articles, they look rational and logical, but it’s an illusion. They are actually cobbled together using some facts, lots of estimates and many assumptions. They are also influenced by tradition, the desire to stay in our comfort zone and our limiting beliefs that certain things are not possible.
Imagination is a critical ingredient of effective planning but in our “systematic” world, it is often frowned upon as “off the wall” and not appropriate for the hard realistic chore of planning work. This is an error that could be costing your company many thousands, if not millions of dollars. This workshop introduces a process that has been developed with clients over a number of years on live shutdowns. Based on a concept of "challenge" that propels us to question the critical aspects of planning and scheduling, it incorporates the 5T process (teamwork, trade-off, timing, technique and technology) and its aim is simply to reduce the duration and the total business impact of our shutdowns. The workshop will address the issues involved in radically changing the way we think about planning and scheduling these critical projects. The program will:
• Focus on profound knowledge
• Define the logic of a shutdown
• Apply the concept of challenge
• Demonstrate the use of the 5T Process
• Provide brief case studies
• Present the one powerful question that will change minds in an instant
