Data

This session is concerned with data quality for effective project delivery. Work undertaken by the project Praxis group at the University of Warwick focusses on the use of project data analytics (PDA) to improve project delivery performance. By fully utilising the capability of Project Data Analytics, it has been estimated that an annual saving of £23bn could accrue on the delivery of large infrastructure projects.

The session starts with a brief introduction to project data analytics, what it is and what it does. It describes how it has been used in the private sector and will delineate the barriers and enablers that have been encountered there. We then examine a Delphi exercise currently being undertaken with the IPA to understand the data needs of SROs delivering major projects and programmes across UK Government. This exercise is investigating ‘critical points’ in delivery and using them to tease out what data was needed, what data was available and what predictive data it would have been useful to generate.

Chair: Professor Naomi Brookes, Professor of Complex Programme Management at the University of Warwick and will be joined by key thought-leaders in Project Delivery Profession from the public and private sector.