The focus of this course is on front end planning best practices that can help you improve capital project performance. This course will introduce you to the relationship between front end planning and capital project performance, in which critical success factors in conducting effective front-end planning are shared. A walk-through of front end planning phase gates is conducted and the tools and techniques that aid in front end planning are explored before introducing three best practices to improve performance in your capital projects. Though this course’s content applies to many types of capital projects, the best practices shared come from the construction industry. The benchmarks and tools are focused on front end planning for industrial, building and infrastructure capital projects.

At the end of this course participants will be able to:
1. Understand the relationship between front end planning and capital project performance.
2. Gain knowledge of CII’s front end planning process used on successful projects.
3. Understand CII tools and techniques used to effectively execute front end planning in capital projects.