What do experts say about Advanced Work Packaging? (part 2)
AWP implementation challenges and gaps:
Expert Interview 1
Inconsistency in execution
Having price contract based on alliance to the best value for the dollar
Expert Interview 2
Following the changing scope
Different levels of detail
Experience with regulations
Expert Interview 3
Inconsistency in execution
Having price contract based on alliance to the best value for the dollar
Expert Interview 4
Stakeholders buy-in (cultural challenge)
Following the changing scope
Different levels of detail
Experience and training
Expert Interview 5
Lack of senior management buy-in
Lack of education
Quality and price of work packaging training and consulting
Re-allocation of planners to the field -> distracted WorkFace planners
Expert Interview 6
Resistance to change
Weak material tracking system
WFP is very interdependent process
Knowledge management
Expert Interview 7
Poor job of change management
Expanded functions of the WF planner
So many functions
Number of simultaneously involved stakeholders
Expert Interview 8
Lack of consideration of construction in early stages is a weakness of the WorkFace planning system and should be enhanced
WorkFace Planning is still in early stages of implementation in the industry…so results are not very well documented.
WFP applied to engineering is a rare practice.
Engineering think systems
Procurement think commodities
Construction think all and geographically
Different thinking complicated by culture
Expert Interview 9
Owners were reluctant to pay any more
Challenges with getting census with all of the parties about a preferred method to go and so a key part of it is the ability to be resonant and communicate with the disciplines to better communicate
" We have a lot of studies that we do here internally as far as a collaborative discussion so that’s a team group so that we can get consensus for perhaps a decision that needs to be made but you want to have a consensus with everybody so that they understand why we arrived at the proper consensus."
Expert Interview 10
Incompatibility of Work packaging numbering structure with other companies
Conflict in partnerships
Expert Interview 11
Culture and resistance to change.
Excerpts from Olfa Hamdi's thesis
