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Developing a new product, asset or service is almost always an iterative, multi-departmental, multi-disciplinary process. When many different professionals are working in parallel on different facets of the same project, their inputs need to be effectively co-ordinated. These development processes can involve many hundreds, even many thousands, of activities and the interfaces – typically information exchanges – between these activities can often number tens of thousands. The scale and complexity of the process is sometimes made even more complex by extending the process across company or geographic boundaries and then compounded further by the inevitable rework, feedback and iteration inherent in any development process. This is often overlooked when planning. Adept Management offers a unique approach to analysing and improving complex project processes, which the Adept Management team was responsible for developing, known as ADePT.

ADePT identifies where iteration is likely to be present within a process and provides methodologies for controlling, reducing or eliminating it depending on the needs of the overall project. In addition to its primary purpose as an approach to planning and decision-making, ADePT also assists in risk identification and change management. By flagging key dates to team members, the approach prompts the timely production of critical information, giving the team a greater understanding of the process and encouraging inter-departmental collaboration.

ADePT allows project and business teams, and particularly planners and managers, to define, re-engineer, plan and manage projects efficiently and effectively, from the earliest concepts right through to completion. The approach supports integrated working, ‘partnering’ and other collaborative approaches to project delivery. In summary, ADePT:
reduces levels of aborted work
reduces the risk of cost or programme over-runs
cuts defects
lowers project costs, and
speeds up project delivery.

We deliver ADePT with our own consultancy tool, an innovative and unique software application for optimising and scheduling business and project processes. As well as implementing ADePT and supporting our customers as they implement the approach themselves, we also offer training in the approach and its implementation.

Download relevant information:

ADePT project portfolio
Case study: Walsall Hospital
Case study: Camana Bay
Case study: Wembley W05

Three stark examples of the impact of ADePT:

1. Design co-ordination - 32 week saving on achieving co-ordinated design in one complex work package;

2. Change management - at least 5 man-weeks saved in avoiding the knock-on effect of a change; and

3. Design outputs - c£75K saving where design fees were linked to achievement of design outputs.