Mott MacDonald understand that it is critically important that
all the parties involved in the asset creation process share a
common understanding both of how projects will be delivered and how
key decisions will be made. Our overarching strategy is that the
process and its governance are clearly defined. The key principles
underlying asset creation are as follows:
- Avoiding protracted decision-making
- Use of stage gates to prevent rework and clear definition of
roles and responsibilities
- Early stakeholder dialogue and involvement
- Early initiation of key downstream tasks
- Linking tasks to deliverables
- Completion of design before construction.
The asset creation process may be described in three increasingly
detailed levels:
Level 1 Process (Stages) – Level 1 flow diagrams show the
overall project stages and their defining outputs as illustrated
below.
Flow diagram - asset creation (Zoom)
Level 2 Process (Detailed flow diagrams) – Each stage at
Level 1 has its own Level 2 detailed flow diagram. The Level 2 flow
diagrams show the key required tasks and the interrelationship
between these tasks.
Level 3 RACI – A RACI (a responsibility, accountability, and
consultation and information matrix) is developed for each stage to
define roles and responsibilities and to clarify the interfaces
between different parties.
Each stage has a defined governance process based on a 'stage-gate'
approach similar to that of PRINCE2. At Level 2, the stages are
broken down into key activities, and this helps both to define the
key deliverables of each stage and to inform the schedule. Each and
every task requires a description and a summary of its key features
and concepts.
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