Creating the Optimal Facility Management Plan

Marcia O’Connor, President, AM FM Consulting Group Inc.

Learn how to develop a plan that aligns with federal and departmental priorities and strategic direction such as sustainability, energy management, and accommodation planning among others to ensure the real property needs are met. With competing priorities, introduce a new mind-set and create innovation and positive change in your corporate planning. This workshop presents the key pillars (i.e., people, place, process and technology) necessary to enable you to create a strategic business plan that will align the needs of your facility with the corporate vision and mandate. The session will be interactive as well as having enough depth to provide participants with value for their training dollar.

Real Property Business Case Development

Brian Acheson, Principal, Focus Management Consulting, Senior Associate, Goss Gilroy Inc.

The business case is an essential tool for effective project decision-making in all federal government departments and agencies. Business cases must provide the information necessary to allow organizational decision-makers to make informed investment decisions and to fully satisfy the requirements of the organization’s project approval process.

The purpose of this workshop is to promote a better understanding of the role, purpose and necessary content of a business case. By the end of the workshop, attendees will have a better understanding of the issues and challenges associated with business case preparation, and how these issues and challenges can be effectively addressed.

Topics to be covered include:

• The issues and challenges of business case preparation;
• Project development and approval, and the role of the business case;
• Treasury Board policy requirements, expectations and direction;
• Incorporating strategic considerations in business case preparation;
• The analytical content of business cases;
• Addressing risk and uncertainty;
• Enhancing the decision-making value of business cases; and,
• Best practices for investment analysis and business case preparation.

Project Risk

Frank Townson, Vice President, CRG Consulting

Project Risk. Realistically, how much can you learn about such a topic in just one day? Join Frank Townson, PMP, PMI-RMP and be very pleasantly surprised. Let Frank take you through the entire project risk management processes complete with practical examples, case studies and hands-on techniques. After differentiating between risk management and project risk management, Frank will introduce the importance of Project Risk Management Planning, including providing a template for a risk management plan worksheet. This leads to risk identification where a fun practical application of the Crawford Slip and Nominal Group techniques will have you laughing and frustrated at the same time. With risks identified, Frank will lead you into prioritizing the risks identified (Qualitative Risk Analysis with another practical application included) and then attaching a real dollar value to them (Quantitative Risk Analysis featuring two more practical applications). Risk Response Planning naturally follows and Frank will explain the two strategic lines of defence as well as the eight (8) most common risk response strategies (including, of course, more practical applications). The overall issue of Risk Monitoring and Control will then be reviewed including a worksheet template and a review of lessons learned in a project risk context. All will then be wrapped up in an open Q&A session. Not a bad way to pass a day.

Does Climate Change Really Matter to Real Property?

Curt Benson, Project Manager, Community and Corporate Planning, Niagara Region

This course will provide delegates with information that concludes the answer quite overwhelmingly is yes! Delegates will be provided information on the causes and effects of climate change and provided with tools and techniques to assist in integrating climate considerations in planning and operating decisions for real property.
Upon completing this course participants will:

• Understand the difference between climate change and weather and its relationship to real property;
• Learn how real property management needs to both mitigate and adapt to a changing climate;
• Understand how to access predictive climate scenarios and how to scope potential impacts on real property;
• Be able to integrate climate change considerations when conducting a risk assessment;
• Learn how to develop a plan to reduce the negative impacts of climate change and identify and take advantage of new opportunities that may arise; and,
• Better understand the environmental, economic and social costs of climate change and the relationships to real property.