MID-CAREER | UK-SPEC: B,C,E | ONE DAY | ONLINE OR IN-PERSON | CPD: 7 HOURS | PRICE: FROM £599
Developing Effective Specifications training course
About the training course
This one-day course enables end-users, technical experts, proponents, internal customers and other key stakeholders to work with procurement and contracting to develop effective and robust specifications and scopes of work, to ensure fit-for-purpose outcomes.
The programme empowers participants to collaborate with all key stakeholders.
Topics covered
Introduction
- Learning outcomes
- Learning styles
- Plan for the day
The importance of effective specifications
- Scopes of work
- Impact of poor scopes of work
- Examples of costly errors
The critical role of language
- Terminology in creating effective specifications and scopes of work
- Problems of communication
- Lack of detail or too prescriptive
Encouraging cooperation
- Technical and commercial experts with responsibility for developing robust effective specifications and scopes of work
- Managing stakeholders’ expectations
- Working with contractors
Types of specification
- Exploring and using the various approaches to the development of appropriate specifications and scopes of work
- Output
- Performance
- Technical
- Functional
- Solutions-based
The role of value analysis
- Value engineering in the process of developing scopes of work and specifications
Specifications and contracts
- The legal and contractual impact of poor specifications and scopes of work
- How to embed scopes of work and specification outputs into tender and quotation documents
Specifications as a management tool
- Developing KPIs and SLAs framed around robust effective specifications and scopes of work
- Negotiating with contractors
- Negotiating with stakeholders
Course objectives
- Understand the importance and value of clear and effective specifications
- Differentiate between the different methods of creating specifications and when to apply them
- Develop robust specification templates to ensure consistency
- Understand the use of appropriate language (critical to creating effective specifications)
- Appreciate the need to develop specifications in cooperation with stakeholders
- Make use of techniques such as value analysis and value engineering to define ‘fit for purpose’ in the context of creating effective specifications
- Embed key KPIs into the specification to ensure delivery
- Manage and mitigate legal and contractual risks in the specification
Early-bird
(ten weeks or over from event date)
Member - £599
Non-member - £699
Standard
(four to ten weeks from event date)
Member - £699
Non-member - £799
Late
(up to two weeks from event date)
Member - £799
Non-member - £899
Available discounts:
- 5% discount for 3 - 5 delegates - Promo code PDCOUGR3TO5
- 10% discount for 6+ delegates - Promo code PDCOUGR6PLUS
All prices are per person.
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