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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.
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Download relevant information:
The ADePT process
ADePT implementation
ADePT project portfolio
Project case study
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.
Source: Report 'Impact of ADePT' by Capita Symonds June 2007.
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