Infrastructure Projects
Infrastructure Projects focus on delivering large physical or IT infrastructure with long horizons and heavy coordination.
What makes these projects distinctive
Infrastructure Projects carry their own signature challenges. The ones that most often decide success or failure are long lead times and dependencies, regulatory and land/permit issues, cost inflation over long horizons — so the plan should be built around managing exactly these.
Typical phases
- Initiation — business case and charter
- Planning — scope, schedule, budget, risks
- Execution — building the deliverables
- Monitoring & control — tracking against baseline
- Closure — acceptance, handover, lessons learned
Sample WBS outline
- Initiation & business case
- Planning (scope, schedule, budget)
- Design & planning
- Procurement
- Build/installation
- Commissioning
- Handover
- Testing / quality assurance
- Deployment / handover
- Closure & lessons learned
Key deliverables
- Design & planning
- Procurement
- Build/installation
- Commissioning
- Handover
Top risks to plan for
- Long lead times and dependencies
- Regulatory and land/permit issues
- Cost inflation over long horizons
Key roles
Programme ManagerEngineering LeadsProcurementCommissioning Lead
Typical duration
1–5+ years, depending on scale and complexity.
Plan a project like this
Use the templates, calculators and how-to guides to build the plan.
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